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Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 32nd parliament held their seats from 1938 to 1941. They were elected at the 1938 state election, and at by-elections. The Speaker was Reginald Weaver.

1. ^ Coogee MLA John Dunningham died on 26 May 1938. UAP candidate Thomas Mutch won the resulting by-election on 25 June.
2. ^ Gordon UAP MLA Harry Turner's election victory was overturned by the Court of Disputed Returns on 25 August 1938. He won the resulting by-election on 24 September.
3. ^ Wollondilly MLA Mark Morton died on 28 September 1938. UAP candidate Jeff Bate, the son of South Coast MLA Henry Bate won the resulting by-election on 12 November.
4. ^ Balmain MLA John Quirk died on 13 December 1938. His wife Labor candidate Mary Quirk won the resulting by-election on 14 January 1939.
5. ^ Hurstville UAP MLA James Webb died on 14 February 1939. Industrial Labor Party candidate Clive Evatt won the resulting by-election on 18 March.
6. ^ Waverley UAP MLA John Waddell died on 15 March 1939. Industrial Labor Party candidate Clarrie Martin won the resulting by-election on 22 April.
7. ^ Two Labor MLAs, Mat Davidson (Cobar), and Ted Horsington (Sturt) resigned from the Labor Party and joined the Industrial Labor Party in April 1939.
8. ^ 10 United Australia members crossed the floor to censure Stevens ministry for proposals to cut government spending in order to restrain a growing deficit.
9. ^ Labor MLA Frank Burke (Newtown) resigned from the Labor Party and joined the Industrial Labor Party in June 1939.
10. ^ Industrial Labor was readmitted into the Labor Party at a unity conference on 26 August 1939.
11. ^ Upper Hunter Country MLA Malcolm Brown died on 29 August 1939. Country Party candidate D'Arcy Rose won the resulting by-election on 7 October.
12. ^ Nine Labor MLAs – Jack Lang (Auburn), Bob Gorman (Annandale), Bill Lamb (Granville), Claude Matthews (Leichhardt), James McGirr (Bankstown), Mary Quirk (Balmain), Tom Shannon (Phillip), Fred Stanley (Lakemba) and Arthur Tonge (Canterbury), left the Labor Party in 1940 to form the Australian Labor Party (Non-Communist), in the second of the Lang Labor splits. They rejoined the party in 1941, following a federal intervention in the NSW branch to remove the influence of Communist sympathisers on the state executive.
13. ^ Tamworth UAP MLA Frank Chaffey died on 9 July 1940. His son UAP candidate Bill Chaffey won the resulting by-election on 10 August.
14. ^ Croydon UAP MLA Bertram Stevens resigned to unsuccessfully contest the federal seat of Lang at the 1940 election. UAP candidate David Hunter won the by-election on 7 September.
15. ^ Ryde UAP MLA Eric Spooner resigned to successfully contest the federal seat of Robertson at the 1940 election. Labor candidate Arthur Williams won the by-election on 14 September.
16. ^ Barwon Country MLA Ben Wade resigned to unsuccessfully contest the federal seat of Gwydir at the 1940 election. Labor candidate Roy Heferen won the by-election on 25 October.
17. The changes to the composition of the house, in chronological order, were: Dunningham died, Turner's election overturned, Morton died, Quirk died, Webb died, Waddell died, Davidson and Horsington joined the ILP, 10 UAP crossed the floor, Burke joined the ILP, ILP readmitted into Labor, Brown died, 9 MLAs split from Labor, Chaffey died, Stevens resigned, Spooner resigned, and Wade resigned.

See also

• Third Stevens ministry
• Mair ministry
• Results of the 1938 New South Wales state election
• Candidates of the 1938 New South Wales state election

References

1. Green, Antony. "1938 District List". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
2. Green, Antony. "1938-1941 By elections". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
3. "Part 5B - Members returned for each electorate" (PDF). New South Wales Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
4. "Former members of the New South Wales Parliament, 1856–2006". New South Wales Parliament. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
5. "State finances" (PDF). Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). New South Wales: Legislative Assembly. 3 August 1939. pp. 5700–5720. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
6. "Part Ten - Officers of Parliament" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 14 May 2020.

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