Victorian state election, 1937

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2 October 1937 (1937-10-02)

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45 (of the 65) seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Sir Stanley Argyle	Tom Tunnecliffe	Albert Dunstan
Party	United Australia	Labor	United Country
Leader since	3 September 1930	14 July 1932	14 March 1935
Leader's seat	Toorak	Collingwood	Korong and Eaglehawk
Last election	25 seats	17 seats	20 seats
Seats before	24 seats	18 seats	20 seats
Seats won	21 seats	20 seats	20 seats
Seat change	3	2	0
Percentage	39.56%	41.03%	11.35%
Swing	3.39	3.10	2.36

Premier before election

Albert Dunstan
United Country

Elected Premier

Albert Dunstan
United Country

The 1937 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday 2 October 1937 to elect 45 of the 65 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.

On 21 March 1936, Patrick Denigan of the Labor Party won the seat of Allandale in a by-election following the death of UAP member Thomas Parkin. This changed the number of seats in the assembly to UAP 24, Labor 18.

Victorian state election, 2 October 1937
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