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1936 Western Australian state election

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247,465 electors were enrolled to vote at the election, but 15 of the 50 seats were uncontested—10 Labor seats representing 33,038 enrolled voters, 1 Nationalist seat representing 3,933 voters and 4 Country seats representing 16,284
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No sitting MLA's retired at this election. This was one of the few elections in which the Labor party allowed more than one candidate to run against a sitting MP, namely in the seat of
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At the election, 5 sitting members (four Labor and one Nationalist) were defeated—three of them by independents. In
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Results of the Western Australian state election, 1936 (Legislative Assembly)
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Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1936–1939
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Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1933–1936
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Candidates of the 1936 Western Australian state election
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Western Australian state election, 15 February 1936
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Index

1933
1939
Western Australian Legislative Assembly



Philip Collier
Charles Latham
Norbert Keenan
Labor
Country
Nationalist
Boulder
York
Nedlands
Premier
Philip Collier
Labor
Premier
Philip Collier
Labor
state
Western Australia
Legislative Assembly
Labor Party
Premier
Philip Collier
Country
Nationalist
Opposition Leader

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