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By-elections
and appointments
- On 12 July 1938, Jim
Sheehan (Labor)
was appointed a Victorian Senator to replace John
Barnes (Labor).
- On 10 December 1938, Sydney
McHugh (Labor)
was elected to
succeed Charles
Hawker (UAP)
as the member for Wakefield.
- On 20 May 1939, William
Conelan (Labor)
was elected to
succeed Frank
Baker (Labor)
as the member for Griffith.
- On 27 May 1939, Lancelot
Spurr (Labor)
was elected to
succeed Joseph
Lyons (UAP)
as the member for Wilmot.
- On 2 March 1940, John
Dedman (Labor)
was elected to
succeed Richard
Casey (UAP)
as the member for Corio.
- On 13 August 1940, three UAP cabinet
ministers, Geoffrey
Street (Corangamite), James
Fairbairn (Flinders)
and Sir
Henry Gullett (Henty),
were killed in the Canberra air disaster.
No by-elections were held due to the proximity
of the election.
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