Australia · Completed

Australia — Parliamentary election — 1937-10-23

Name: Australia — Parliamentary election — 1937-10-23
Start: 1937-10-23
Location: Australia

Oct 23, 1937

Elections

Stale

Jurisdiction: Australia
Next national election: Oct 23, 1937
Role: Parliamentary election · Legislative
Selection method: Other method
Status: Completed
Round: 1

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Contest rounds

Round 1 · Single round

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

CompletedOct 23, 1937

Published contest rules

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  "early": false,
  "electorate": 3848020,
  "source": "ParlGov",
  "sourceElectionId": 745,
  "sourceElectionType": "parliament",
  "totalSeats": 75,
  "validVotes": 3605862,
  "votesCast": 3701822
}

Candidates

Australian Labor Party

Party

Affiliated party: Australian Labor Party

Coalition

Party

Affiliated party: Coalition

National (Country) Party | National Party of Australia

Party

Affiliated party: National (Country) Party | National Party of Australia

one seat

Party

Affiliated party: one seat

Independent UAP (NSW)

Party

Affiliated party: Independent UAP (NSW)

no party affiliation

Party

Affiliated party: no party affiliation

Social Credit Party

Party

Affiliated party: Social Credit Party

Victorian Country Party

Party

Affiliated party: Victorian Country Party

United Australia Party

Party

Affiliated party: United Australia Party

Candidate–opponent strategy evidence

A directional comparison and factual public-message frame for each sourced pair in the same contest.

Preliminary evidence scenario, not a prediction or guarantee of an electoral result. It uses public sources, makes no causal claim and uses no demographic microtargeting. Methodology

There is not enough compatible, sourced evidence to publish a pairwise analysis for this contest yet.

Election results

Australia — Parliamentary election — 1937-10-23 · UAP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 1,214,526
Seats: 28
Original value: 33.68
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Australia — Parliamentary election — 1937-10-23 · CP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 414,779
Seats: 12
Original value: 11.50
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Australia — Parliamentary election — 1937-10-23 · Ind. UAP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 25,522
Seats: 1
Original value: 0.71
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Australia — Parliamentary election — 1937-10-23 · C

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Australia — Parliamentary election — 1937-10-23 · Social Credit

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 79,432
Seats: 0
Original value: 2.20
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Australia — Parliamentary election — 1937-10-23 · Others

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 153,213
Seats: 1
Original value: 4.20
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Australia — Parliamentary election — 1937-10-23 · Federal Country

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 24,179
Seats: 1
Original value: 0.70
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Australia — Parliamentary election — 1937-10-23 · State Country

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 121,321
Seats: 3
Original value: 3.40
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Australia — Parliamentary election — 1937-10-23 · ALP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 1,555,737
Seats: 29
Original value: 43.10
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Signal

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Polls

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Forecasts

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Top issues

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Prediction components

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Media profile

Approval · Favorability · Negativity

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Media profile

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Strengths · Weaknesses · Attacks · Controversies

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Campaign signals

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Sources

1CIA World LeadersUS-GOV-PD · Aug 9, 2026
2WikidataCC0-1.0 · Aug 9, 2026
3Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode-3.0 · Aug 9, 2026