Candidates of the 1939 Western Australian state election

The 1939 Western Australian state election was held on 18 March 1939.

Retiring Members

Labor

• Frank Troy (MLA) Mount Magnet

Legislative Assembly

Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used.

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Nationalist candidate	Country candidate	Other candidates
Albany	Country	Arthur Wansbrough		Leonard Hill	Charles Hammond (Ind. Nationalist) James Bolitho (Ind.)
Avon	Country			Ignatius Boyle	John Tankard (Ind. Country)
Beverley	Country			James Mann
Boulder	Labor	Philip Collier			Walter Coath (Ind.) Wilfred Mountjoy (Communist)
Brown Hill-Ivanhoe	Labor	Frederick Smith	Wesley Moore
Bunbury	Labor	Frederick Withers	Vincent Donaldson	Jasper Norton
Canning	Labor	Charles Cross	Frederick Aberle		Carlyle Ferguson (Ind.)
Claremont	Nationalist		Charles North
Collie	Labor	Arthur Wilson
East Perth	Ind. Labor	Robert Higgins			Thomas Hughes* (Ind. Labor) Herbert Wells (Ind. Nationalist)
Forrest	Labor	May Holman	Percy Rettallack
Fremantle	Labor	Joseph Sleeman	James Wilson
Gascoyne	Labor	Frank Wise
Geraldton	Labor	John Willcock	Patrick Lynch	Alfred Culewis
Greenough	Country			William Patrick
Guildford-Midland	Labor	William Johnson			Joseph Batkin (Ind.)
Hannans	Labor	David Leahy	Keith Burton
Irwin-Moore	Country			Percy Ferguson	Claude Barker (Ind.)
Kalgoorlie	Labor	Herbert Styants	Harold Kingsbury
Kanowna	Labor	Emil Nulsen
Katanning	Country			Arthur Watts	Walter Bird (Ind.)
Kimberley	Labor	Aubrey Coverley
Leederville	Labor	Alexander Panton	Walter Goodlet		James Kelly (Ind.)
Maylands	Ind. Nationalist	Robert Hartley			Harry Shearn (Ind. Nationalist)
Middle Swan	Labor	James Hegney	Karl Drake-Brockman
Mount Hawthorn	Labor	Harry Millington	Guildford Clarke
Mount Magnet	Labor	Lucien Triat		Peter Cassey	Arthur Cooper (Ind. Labor)
Mount Marshall	Country			Frederick Warner	Leonard Hamilton (Ind. Country)
Murchison	Labor	William Marshall			John Montgomery (Ind. Labor)
Murray-Wellington	Nationalist		Ross McLarty
Nedlands	Nationalist	Dorothy Tangney	Norbert Keenan		Albert Crooks (Ind. Nationalist)
Nelson	Independent	Roy Pearce	John Smith	William Scott	Clarence Doust (Ind.) Guy Thomson (Ind. Nationalist)
North Perth	Nationalist	Edward Holman	James Smith		Arthur Abbott (Ind. Nationalist)
North-East Fremantle	Labor	John Tonkin	George James
Northam	Labor	Albert Hawke	John Safe
Perth	Labor	Ted Needham	Donald Cleland Harry Mann
Pilbara	Nationalist	Bill Hegney	Frank Welsh
Pingelly	Country			Harrie Seward
Roebourne	Labor	Alec Rodoreda	Alexander Angelo
South Fremantle	Labor	Tom Fox	Ashbury Gartrell		Arthur Ambrose (Ind.)
Subiaco	Nationalist	William Lonnie	Florence Cardell-Oliver		Walter Richardson (Ind. Nationalist)
Sussex	Nationalist	Albert Morgan	William Willmott	Robert Falkingham	William Morris (Ind. Country)
Swan	Country	Harold Larwood		Richard Sampson	George North (Ind. Nationalist)
Toodyay	Country			Lindsay Thorn
Victoria Park	Labor	Howard Raphael			James Milligan (Ind.)
Wagin	Country			Sydney Stubbs	Jack Eckersley (Ind.) Alfred Fisher (Ind.) Eugene Smalpage (Ind. Country)
West Perth	Nationalist	Roy Nevile	Robert McDonald
Williams-Narrogin	Country	Harry Hyde		Victor Doney
Yilgarn-Coolgardie	Labor	George Lambert		Arthur Richards	Lionel Kelly (Ind. Labor) Daniel O'Leary (Ind.)
York	Country			Charles Latham	John Keast (Ind.)

See also

• Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1936–1939
• Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1939–1943
• 1939 Western Australian state election

References

• Black, David; Prescott, Valerie; Western Australian Electoral Commission; Western Australian Parliamentary History Project (1997), Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission, ISBN 978-0-7309-8409-2