# Candidates of the 1938 South Australian state election

This is a list of candidates of the 1938 South Australian state election. The House of Assembly changed from having multi-member to single-member electorates at this election, which combined with the partisan turmoil of the two previous terms saw a number of formerly partisan figures run as independents at this election.

## Retiring MPs
### Labor

* John Pedler (Wallaroo) – lost preselection
* William Threadgold (Port Pirie) – lost preselection

### Liberal and Country League

* Ronald Hunt (Victoria) – lost preselection
* Herbert Lyons (Barossa) – retired
* Victor Marra Newland (North Adelaide) – retired
* Baden Pattinson (Yorke Peninsula) – retired
* Frank Perry (East Torrens) – lost preselection
* Henry Tassie MLC (Central No. 2 District) – lost preselection

## Legislative Assembly

Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are marked with an asterisk.
| Electorate | Labor candidates | Liberal and Country candidates | Other candidates |
| Adelaide | Bob Dale | Duncan Menzies | John Atkins (Ind. Labor) Doug Bardolph* (Ind. Labor) Bert Edwards (Ind. Labor) P. J. Flannagan (Ind.) |
| Albert | | Malcolm McIntosh* | J. J. A. McNamara (Ind.) Gwynfred Oram (Ind.) |
| Alexandra | | Herbert Hudd | George Connor* (Ind.) |
| Angas | K. E. A. O. Metz | Reginald Rudall* | W. F. Haese (Ind.) A. V. Mills (Ind.) Walter Langdon Parsons (Ind.) |
| Burnside | H. A. Slater | Charles Abbott* | S. R. Gray (Ind.) Jeanne Young (Ind.) |
| Burra | T. J. Canny | Archibald McDonald* | Maurice Collins (Ind.) Even George (Ind.) |
| Chaffey | R. G. Lambert | A. H. Kelly C. S. Ruston | H. S. Denman (Ind.) William MacGillivray* (Ind.) |
| Eyre | | Arthur Christian* | C. O. J. Bohlin (Ind.) A. I. Schubert (Ind.) |
| Flinders | J. V. O'Leary | Rex Pearson | Edward Craigie* (Single Tax) P. V. Provis (Ind.) |
| Frome | Mick O'Halloran* | F. P. Adams | S. D. Jones (Ind.) |
| Gawler | Leslie Duncan* | W. D. Noack | W. T. Duggan (Ind.) A. L. F. Ey (Ind.) Lindsay Yelland (Ind.) |
| Glenelg | T. J. D. Barker | Ernest Anthoney | William Fisk* (Ind.) |
| Goodwood | D. S. Fraser | A. B. Cox | J. H. B. Hick (Ind.) George Illingworth* (Ind.) |
| Gouger | | Henry Crosby | Albert Robinson* (Ind.) |
| Gumeracha | A. S. Edwards | Thomas Playford IV* | Robert Hunter (Ind.) |
| Hindmarsh | John McInnes* | | J. L. S. Treloar (Ind. Labor) |
| Light | K. V. McEntee | Richard Layton Butler* | E. E. Craig (Ind.) Moses Gabb (Ind.) E. G. E. Willis (Ind.) |
| Mitcham | Frank Walsh | Henry Dunks* | N. S. Clark (Ind.) Clarence Goode (Ind.) |
| Mount Gambier | F. E. Young | H. L. Kennedy | John Fletcher* (Ind.) |
| Murray | J. T. Cassidy | George Cummins Morphett | Richard McKenzie* (Ind. Labor) P. H. Suter (Ind.) |
| Newcastle | J. S. Marner | George Jenkins* | |
| Norwood | Frank Nieass* | Walter Hamilton | H. C. Austin (Ind.) M. M. Bowering (Ind.) W. E. Hardy (Ind.) |
| Onkaparinga | Tom Howard | Howard Shannon* | Frank Staniford (Ind.) |
| Port Adelaide | James Stephens* | | R. A. Cilento (Ind.) |
| Port Pirie | Andrew Lacey* | | |
| Prospect | Joseph Connelly | Elder Whittle* | A. G. O. Gray (Ind.) R. O. Ravenscroft (Ind.) |
| Ridley | | F. J. Petch | Tom Stott* (Ind.) |
| Rocky River | Edgar Russell | John Lyons* | W. F. Nicholls (Ind.) M. J. Noonan (Ind.) |
| Semaphore | Albert Thompson* | | H. W. Bray (Ind.) C. R. Grant (Ind.) Herbert Guthrie (Ind.) |
| Stanley | | Alexander Melrose* | Samuel Dennison (Ind.) Percy Quirke (Ind.) |
| Stirling | | Percy Heggaton | Herbert Dunn* (Ind.) S. H. Pearce (Ind.) |
| Stuart | Lindsay Riches* | | |
| Torrens | R. W. Davis | Shirley Jeffries* | Ernest Hannaford (Ind.) |
| Thebarton | M. E. Skitch | | Alfred Blackwell (Ind.) Jules Langdon* (Ind.) C. W. Lloyd (Ind.) L. J. Smith (Ind.) |
| Unley | T. W. Grealy | Horace Hogben | John McLeay, Sr.* (Ind.) |
| Victoria | John Daly | Vernon Petherick | Clement Smith* (Ind.) |
| Wallaroo | Robert Richards* | | C. T. Chapman (Ind.) |
| Yorke Peninsula | | A. B. Ferguson | Daniel Davies* (Ind.) |
| Young | | Robert Nicholls* | H. A. Dolling (Ind.) L. E. Young (Ind.) |

## Legislative Council

| Electorate | Labor candidates | Liberal and Country candidates | Grouped Independent candidates | Ungrouped candidates |
| Central District No. 1 (2) | Frank Condon* Fred Walsh | | Joseph Anderson* J. H. Clouston | |
| Central District No. 2 (2) | William Daniels T. H. Shiels | Edward Holden* James Wallace Sandford* | | |
| Northern District (2) | James Beerworth Charles Davis | Lyell McEwin* George Ritchie* | | J. A. Wood |
| Midland District (2) | | Walter Gordon Duncan* David Gordon* | R. L. D. Bonner J. St. L. Honner | |
| Southern District (2) | | John Cowan* Reuben Cranstoun Mowbray | Frank Halleday* Alec Bagot | |