Western Australian state election, 1936

← 1933

15 February 1936

1939 →

All 50 seats in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly

	First party	Second party

Leader	Philip Collier	Charles Latham
Party	Labor	Country/Nationalist coalition
Leader since	16 April 1917	24 April 1933
Leader's seat	Boulder	York
Last election	30 seats	20 seats
Seats won	26 seats	21 seats
Seat change	4	1
Percentage	42.33%	46.96%
Swing	3.15	2.15

Premier before election

Philip Collier
Labor

Elected Premier

Philip Collier
Labor

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 15 February 1936 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly. The Labor Party, led by Premier Philip Collier, won a second term in office against the Country and Nationalist parties, led by Opposition Leader Charles Latham and Norbert Keenan respectively.

The only member to retire at the election was Labor member for Kalgoorlie James Cunningham, who transferred to the Australian Senate the following year.

At the election, 5 sitting members (four Labor and one Nationalist) were defeated—three of them by independents. In Maylands, one-term MLA Robert Clothier (Labor) was defeated by independent Nationalist Harry Shearn, who won with preferences from two endorsed nationalists. In East Perth, Minister for Employment and Labour James Kenneally was defeated by former Labor member Thomas Hughes, and the Nationalist member for Nelson, John Henry Smith, was defeated by independent Clarence Doust. The remaining seats, Subiaco and Albany, were lost by Labor to the Nationalist and Country parties respectively.

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