Senate composition at 1 July 1935
Government (33) - (15 seat majority)
United Australia Party (26) [i]
Country Party (7) [ii]
Opposition (3)
Labor (3)
Changes in composition
- ^ At the 23 October 1937 election UAP Senator Guy Arkins was defeated for a casual vacancy by Labor candidate Bill Ashley.
- ^ At the 23 October 1937 election Country Party Senator Thomas Marwick was defeated for a casual vacancy by Labor candidate James Cunningham.
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1935 to 1938. [1] Half of its members were elected at the 19 December 1931 election and had terms starting on 1 July 1932 and finishing on 30 June 1938; the other half were elected at the 15 September 1934 election and had terms starting on 1 July 1935 and finishing on 30 June 1941. The process for filling casual vacancies was complex. While senators were elected for a six-year term, people appointed to a casual vacancy only held office until the earlier of the next election for the House of Representatives or the Senate. [2]
Senator | Party | State | Term ending | Years in office | |
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Mac Abbott | Country | New South Wales | 1941 | 1935–1941 | |
Guy Arkins [a] | United Australia | New South Wales | 1937 [b] | 1935–1937 | |
Bill Ashley [a] | Labor | New South Wales | 1941 | 1937–1958 | |
Oliver Badman [c] | Country | South Australia | 1938 | 1932–1937 | |
Charles Brand | United Australia | Victoria | 1941 | 1935–1947 | |
Tom Brennan | United Australia | Victoria | 1938 | 1931–1938 | |
Gordon Brown | Labor | Queensland | 1938 | 1932–1965 | |
William Carroll [d] | Country | Western Australia | 1938 | 1926–1936 | |
Herbert Collett | United Australia | Western Australia | 1941 | 1933–1947 | |
Joe Collings | Labor | Queensland | 1938 | 1932–1950 | |
Walter Cooper | Country | Queensland | 1941 | 1928–1932, 1935–1968 | |
Lionel Courtenay [a] | United Australia | New South Wales | 1941 | 1935 | |
Ben Courtice [e] | Labor | Queensland | 1937, [b] 1938 | 1937–1962 | |
Charles Cox | United Australia | New South Wales | 1938 | 1920–1938 | |
Thomas Crawford | United Australia | Queensland | 1941 | 1917–1947 | |
James Cunningham [d] | Labor | Western Australia | 1938 | 1937–1943 | |
Dick Dein | United Australia | New South Wales | 1941 | 1935–1941 | |
Jack Duncan-Hughes | United Australia | South Australia | 1938 | 1931–38 | |
Harry Foll | United Australia | Queensland | 1941 | 1917–1947 | |
William Gibson | Country / Independent [f] | Victoria | 1941 | 1935–1947 | |
Charles Grant | United Australia | Tasmania | 1941 | 1925, 1932–1941 | |
James Guthrie | United Australia | Victoria | 1938 | 1920–1938 | |
Charles Hardy | Country | New South Wales | 1938 | 1932–1938 | |
John Hayes | United Australia | Tasmania | 1941 | 1923–1947 | |
Herbert Hays | United Australia | Tasmania | 1941 | 1923–1947 | |
Bertie Johnston | Country | Western Australia | 1941 | 1929–1942 | |
John Leckie | United Australia | Victoria | 1941 | 1935–1947 | |
Patrick Lynch | United Australia | Western Australia | 1938 | 1907–1938 | |
Allan MacDonald | United Australia | Western Australia | 1941 | 1935–1947 | |
John MacDonald [e] | Labor | Queensland | 1938 | 1922, 1928, 1932–1937 | |
Walter Massy-Greene | United Australia | New South Wales | 1938 | 1923–1925, 1926–1938 | |
Thomas Marwick [d] | Country | Western Australia | 1937 [b] | 1936–1937 | |
Philip McBride [c] | United Australia | South Australia | 1937, [b] 1938 | 1937–1944 | |
Alexander McLachlan | United Australia | South Australia | 1938 | 1926–1944 | |
James McLachlan | United Australia | South Australia | 1941 | 1935–1947 | |
George McLeay | United Australia | South Australia | 1941 | 1935–1947, 1950–1955 | |
John Millen | United Australia | Tasmania | 1938 | 1920–1938 | |
Herbert Payne | United Australia | Tasmania | 1938 | 1920–1938 | |
Sir George Pearce [g] | United Australia | Western Australia | 1938 | 1901–1938 | |
William Plain | United Australia | Victoria | 1938 | 1917–1923, 1925–1938 | |
Burford Sampson | United Australia | Tasmania | 1938 | 1925–1938, 1941–1947 | |
Oliver Uppill | United Australia | South Australia | 1941 | 1935–1944 |