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1940

Senate

Sitting Senators are shown in bold text. Tickets that elected at least one Senator are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are identified by an asterisk (*).

New South Wales

Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party-Country Party Coalition was defending two seats. The Labor Party was defending one seat. Labor Senators Stan Amour, John Armstrong and Tom Arthur were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates Coalition candidates Labor (N-C) candidates State Labor candidates Defence candidates Ungrouped candidates





 
  1. Bill Ashley*
  2. James Arnold*
  3. William Large*
  1. Dick Dein (UAP)
  2. Mac Abbott (CP)
  3. James Patrick (UAP)
  1. Stanley Allen
  2. John Kerin
  3. James Walker
  1. Edwin Barker
  2. Clarrie Campbell
  3. Albert Crowe
  1. Peter Pollack
  2. William Hulks
  3. Wilbred Taylor

Adela Walsh
Stanley White
Lance Sharkey
Harry Bohland
William Adkins
John O'Carroll

Queensland

Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party-Country Party Coalition was defending three seats. Labor Senators Gordon Brown, Joe Collings and Ben Courtice were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates Coalition candidates Ungrouped candidates


 
  1. William Bertram
  2. William Collins
  3. Austin Elliott
  1. Walter Cooper* (CP)
  2. Thomas Crawford* (UAP)
  3. Harry Foll* (UAP)

Jim Slater (Ind Soc)

South Australia

Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party was defending three seats. United Australia Party Senators Philip McBride, Alexander McLachlan and Keith Wilson were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates UAP candidates Ungrouped candidates


 
  1. Alex Finlay
  2. Bert Hoare
  3. Herman Dolling
  1. James McLachlan*
  2. George McLeay*
  3. Oliver Uppill*

Tom Garland

Tasmania

Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party was defending three seats. Labor Senators Bill Aylett, Richard Darcey and Charles Lamp were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates UAP candidates Ungrouped candidates


 
  1. John Brown
  2. Howard D'Alton
  3. Maurice Weston
  1. Herbert Hays*
  2. John Hayes*
  3. Bayard Edgell
  4. John Millen
  5. Burford Sampson*

Donald Cameron

Victoria

Four seats were up for election. One of these was a short-term vacancy caused by Labor Senator-elect John Barnes's death; this had been filled in the interim by Labor's Jim Sheehan. The United Australia Party-Country Party Coalition was defending three seats. The Labor Party was defending one seat. Labor Senators Don Cameron and Richard Keane were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates Coalition candidates Ungrouped candidates


 
  1. Jim Sheehan
  2. Parker Moloney
  3. Bert Hendrickson
  4. William McAdam
  1. Charles Brand* (UAP)
  2. William Gibson* (CP)
  3. John Leckie* (UAP)
  4. John Spicer* (UAP)

Gerry O'Day (Ind)
Claude Peace (TR)

Western Australia

Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party-Country Party Coalition was defending three seats. Labor Senators Robert Clothier, James Cunninghamand James Fraser were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates Coalition candidates Soldiers candidates Ungrouped candidates



 
  1. Frank Trainer
  2. Dorothy Tangney
  3. Herb Graham
  1. Herbert Collett* (UAP)
  2. Bertie Johnston* (CP)
  3. Allan MacDonald* (UAP)
  1. Arthur Richards
  2. Alexander Cunningham
  3. Stanley Dival

Carlyle Ferguson (Ind)
Claude Swaine (Emp. Co-op.)