Victorian state election, 1940

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16 March 1940 (1940-03-16)

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

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	John Cain	Albert Dunstan	Sir Stanley Argyle
Party	Labor	United Country	United Australia
Leader since	18 October 1937	14 March 1935	3 September 1930
Leader's seat	Northcote	Korong and Eaglehawk	Toorak
Last election	20 seats	20 seats	21 seats
Seats before	21 seats	22 seats	18 seats
Seats won	22 seats	22 seats	16 seats
Seat change	1	0	2
Percentage	33.17%	14.16%	35.41%
Swing	7.86	2.81	4.15

Premier before election

Albert Dunstan
United Country

Elected Premier

Albert Dunstan
United Country

The 1940 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday 16 March 1940 to elect 44 of the 65 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.

Several events had taken place since the previous state election on 2 October 1937, which had changed the breakdown of the parties in the Assembly:

Victorian state election, 16 March 1940
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