Western Australian state election, 1939

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18 March 1939

1943 →

All 50 seats in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly

	First party	Second party

Leader	John Willcock	Charles Latham
Party	Labor	Country/Nationalist coalition
Leader since	20 August 1936	24 April 1933
Leader's seat	Geraldton	York
Last election	26 seats	21 seats
Seats won	27 seats	19 seats
Seat change	1	2
Percentage	45.02%	35.97%
Swing	2.63	10.99

Premier before election

John Willcock
Labor

Elected Premier

John Willcock
Labor

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 18 March 1939 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly. The Labor Party, led by Premier John Willcock, won a third term in office against the Country and Nationalist parties, led by Opposition Leader Charles Latham and Robert Ross McDonald respectively.

The election was notable for the lack of change to the status quo. Only one member—former Speaker Michael Troy, who had been in the Assembly continuously since 1904—opted to retire, being replaced in his seat of Mount Magnet by fellow Labor member Lucien Triat. Labor's Bill Hegney gained the seat of Pilbara from two-term Nationalist MLA Frank Welsh, whilst the Nationalist member since 1914 for North Perth, James MacCallum Smith, was defeated by independent Nationalist Arthur Abbott (who joined the party some years later).

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