This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1937 Australian federal election. The election was held on 23 October 1937.
In 1936, the Lang Labor group had been reabsorbed into the Australian Labor Party. Seats are still designated as being held by Lang Labor.
Sitting members at the time of the election 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 | Coalition candidate | Other candidates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albert Lane (UAP) | Stanley Allen (SC) | |||||
| Harold Thorby (CP) | ||||||
| Cyril Glassop (Ind Lab) | ||||||
| Abraham Brindley | Earle Page (CP) | |||||
| Sol Rosevear | Arthur Brough (UAP) | |||||
| Joe Clark | Alexander Huie (Ind) | |||||
| Eddie Ward | Arthur Butterell (UAP) | Thomas Grant (Ind) Louis Phillips (Ind) | ||||
| Claude Allen | John Perkins (UAP) | |||||
| William Scully | Ernest Batchelor (CP) | |||||
| Essell Hoad | Thomas Collins (CP) | |||||
| Rowley James | ||||||
| Dan Mulcahy | Matthew Calman (UAP) | Ernest Carr (SC) | ||||
| John Lawson (UAP) | ||||||
| William McCall (UAP) | George Carruthers (SC) | |||||
| Leigh Cuthbertson | Victor Thompson (CP) | |||||
| David Watkins | Hilton Sykes (Ind) | |||||
| Henry Clayden | Billy Hughes (UAP) | Percival Minahan (SC) | ||||
| Karl Guhl | Sir Charles Marr (UAP) | |||||
| Sir Frederick Stewart (UAP) | Dick George (Ind) Harold Meggitt (Ind) | |||||
| Joe Gander | Reuben Jenner (UAP) | |||||
| Jim Fredericks | Larry Anthony
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| William Quirk | Horace Nock (CP) | Robert Ballantyne (Ind) | ||||
| Gordon Cross | Sydney Gardner (UAP) | John Metcalfe (Ind) | ||||
| Walter Salter | Sir Archdale Parkhill (UAP) | Joseph Hamlet (Ind UAP) Percy Spender* (Ind UAP) | ||||
| William Dignam | John Jennings (UAP) | |||||
| Thomas Conway | Eric Harrison (UAP) | |||||
| Bert Lazzarini | Henry Storey (UAP) | |||||
| Jack Beasley |
| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Coalition candidate | Social Credit candidate | Communist candidate | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Lawson | Graham Hart (UAP) | Ambrose Sawtell | |||||||
| Frank Forde | Edwin Hiskens (CP) | John Harding | |||||||
| Leslie Bailey | Arthur Fadden (CP) | Arthur Rushton | |||||||
| Francis Baker | Dugald Clark (UAP) | William Moore | |||||||
| George Martens | James Wilkie (CP) | Henry Beck | Fred Paterson | ||||||
| Bill Riordan | Alex Kippen (CP) | Herbert Price | |||||||
| Edmund Taylor | William Jolly (UAP) | Harry Cash | |||||||
| James Hunter (CP) | Henry Madden | ||||||||
| John McCoy | Josiah Francis (UAP) | Henry Hogg | |||||||
| George Watson | Bernard Corser (CP) | Geoffrey Nichols |
| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Coalition candidate | Other candidates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fred Stacey (UAP) | ||||||
| Archie Cameron (CP) | Charles Lloyd (Ind) | |||||
| Kevin McEntee Leonard Pilton | John Price (UAP) | William Hardy (Ind) | ||||
| James Marner | Oliver Badman (CP) | Alfred Parker (Ind) | ||||
| Norman Makin | Harry Hatwell (UAP) | |||||
| Raymond Davis | Charles Hawker (UAP) |
| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | UAP candidate | Other candidates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Barnard | John Watson (Ind) | |||||
| Edwin Brown | George Bell | |||||
| Gerald Mahoney | Maxwell Hickman (Ind Lab) Athol Smith (SC) | |||||
| Charles Frost | Hugh Warner | |||||
| Lancelot Spurr Maurice Weston | Joseph Lyons |
| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Coalition candidate | Other candidates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phillip Nash | Thomas White (UAP) | John Atkinson (Ind) | ||||
| Stanley Walker (UAP) | ||||||
| Frank Brennan | Albert Peters (UAP) | |||||
| Ernest Duus | Walter Pearce (UAP) George Rankin* (CP) | |||||
| Maurice Blackburn | Richard Griffiths (UAP) | |||||
| Arthur Haywood | Geoffrey Street (UAP) | |||||
| Leo Carmody | Richard Casey (UAP) | |||||
| William Hutchinson (UAP) | ||||||
| William Doran | Harold Holt (UAP) | William Bottomley (Ind) | ||||
| James Fairbairn | Alexander Amess (SC) Ralph Gibson (CPA) | |||||
| James McKenna | Thomas Paterson (CP) | |||||
| Sydney Walker | Sir Henry Gullett (UAP) | Rupert Hornabrook (Ind) | ||||
| William Hartshorne | John McEwen (CP) | |||||
| Robert Menzies (UAP) | Leslie Hollins (Ind) | |||||
| Arthur Drakeford | Malcolm Fenton (UAP) | Edward Turner (Ind) | ||||
| William Maloney | ||||||
| Jack Holloway | ||||||
| Robert Rankin (CP) Thomas Scholfield* (UAP) | ||||||
| Hugh McClelland (CP) | Alexander Wilson (Ind) | |||||
| James Scullin | Douglas Knight (UAP) |
| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Coalition candidate | Independent candidates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Prowse (CP) | ||||||
| John Curtin | Eric Isaachsen (UAP) | Henry Wright | ||||
| Albert Green | Stephen Kellow (UAP) | |||||
Walter Nairn
| Viv James | |||||
| John Steele | Henry Gregory (CP) |
Sitting Senators are shown in bold text.
Four seats were up for election. One of these was a short-term vacancy caused by United Australia Party Senator Lionel Courtenay's death; this had been filled in the interim by Guy Arkins. The United Australia Party-Country Party Coalition was defending four seats. United Australia Party Senator Dick Dein and Country Party Senator Mac Abbott were not up for re-election.
Three seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. United Australia Party Senators Thomas Crawford and Harry Foll and Country Party Senator Walter Cooper were not up for re-election.
Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party was defending three seats. United Australia Party Senators James McLachlan, George McLeay and Oliver Uppill were not up for re-election.
Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party was defending three seats. United Australia Party Senators Charles Grant, John Hayes and Herbert Hays were not up for re-election.
| Labor candidates | UAP candidates | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Bill Aylett
| Donald Cameron Ernest Freeland Henry McFie John Millen Herbert Payne Burford Sampson |
Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party was defending three seats. United Australia Party Senators Charles Brand and John Leckie and Country Party Senator William Gibson were not up for re-election.
Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party-Country Party Coalition was defending three seats. United Australia Party Senators Herbert Collett and Allan MacDonald and Country Party Senator Bertie Johnston were not up for re-election.