New South Wales state election, 1938

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26 March 1938 (1938-03-26)

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All 90 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
46 Assembly seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Bertram Stevens	Jack Lang
Party	UAP/Country coalition	Labor
Leader since	5 April 1932	31 July 1923
Leader's seat	Croydon	Auburn
Last election	61 seats	29 seats
Seats won	59 seats	28 seats
Seat change	2	1
Percentage	49.6%	34.8%
Swing	3.6	7.6

Legislative Assembly after the election

Premier before election

Bertram Stevens
UAP/Country coalition

Elected Premier

Bertram Stevens
UAP/Country coalition

The 1938 New South Wales state election was held on 26 March 1938. This election was for all of the 90 seats in the 32nd New South Wales Legislative Assembly and was conducted in single member constituencies with compulsory preferential voting.

The result of the election was:

The UAP/Country Party coalition of Bertram Stevens/Michael Bruxner had a majority of 28 (down 2). Stevens continued as Premier until 5 August 1939 when he was deposed by his party and replaced by Alexander Mair.

Labor's continued poor showing in this election was seen as evidence of Jack Lang's inability to appeal to the middle ground of the electorate. As a result, moves to dispose Lang intensified. The Industrial Labor Party led by Lang rival Bob Heffron was re-absorbed into the ALP on 26 August 1939 and Lang was replaced as party leader by William McKell on 5 September 1939.

During this parliament the ALP and Industrial Labor each won 2 by-elections from the UAP. This reduced the Government's majority to 20 when the parliament was dissolved.

New South Wales state election, 26 March 1938
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