1941 Queensland state election

1941 Queensland state election
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All 62 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland; 32 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
Registered	634,986
Turnout	537,247 (84.61%)
	Legislative Assembly after the election
Premier before election; William Forgan Smith; Labor	Elected Premier ; William Forgan Smith; Labor

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 29 March 1941 to elect the 62 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The Labor government of Premier William Forgan Smith was seeking a fourth term in office.

Key dates

Date	Event
26 February 1941	The Parliament was dissolved.^[1]
27 February 1941	Writs were issued by the Governor to proceed with an election.^[2]
7 March 1941	Close of nominations.
29 March 1941	Polling day, between the hours of 8am and 6pm.
16 April 1941	The Forgan Smith Ministry was re-sworn in.^[3]
26 April 1941	The writ was returned and the results formally declared.

This table lists changes in party representation at the 1941 election.

Seat	Incumbent member		New member

Bundaberg	Bernard McLean	Labor	Frank Barnes	Independent Labor
Cunningham	William Deacon	Country	William Deacon	Independent Country
Gregory	Charles Brown	Independent	George Devries	Labor
Hamilton	Hugh Russell	United Australia	Bruce Pie	Independent
Kelvin Grove	George Morris	Independent	Bert Turner	Labor
Maree	William King	Labor	Louis Luckins	United Australia
Sandgate	Roland Hislop	Labor	Eric Decker	Country
Toowong	Harry Massey	Independent UAP	Harry Massey	United Australia
Windsor	Herbert Williams	Labor	Harry Moorhouse	Independent

The incumbent member for Gregory, Charles Brown won this seat from Labor at the 1939 by-election.

^ ^a ^b ^c Does not include the electorates of Carnarvon, Cooroora, Fitzroy, Townsville and Warrego, all of whom were not contested.
^ ^a ^b Includes votes for one candidate for Cunningham (William Deacon) whom was an Independent Country candidate.
^ Includes one candidate whom ran as an Independent-UAP (Kelvin Grove).

^ "Untitled". Queensland Government Gazette. 26 February 1941. p. 156:659.
^ "Untitled". Queensland Government Gazette. 27 February 1941. p. 156:661.
^ "Untitled". Queensland Government Gazette. 16 April 1941. p. 156:1401.
^ Hughes, CA; Graham, BD (1974). Voting for the Queensland legislative assembly, 1890-1964 (PDF). Australia National University (ANU). pp. 192–202.

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