Nominations: Friday, 3 March 1939, Polling: Saturday, 18 March 1939
Preferences required, Preferences counted to completion, Preferences changed primary result
Candidate
Party
Votes
%
Final
%
Evatt, Clive Raleigh (Elected)
Industrial Labor
7,017
33.75
12,168
58.52
McGrath, John Francis
Labor Party
5,852
28.14
Thomas, Alfred Charles
United Australia
7,925
38.11
8,626
41.48
Formal Votes
20,794
Informal Votes
309
1.46
Total Votes / Turnout
21,103
93.92
Cause Category: Death
Notes: Caused by the death of UAP MP James Eli Webb.
Source: Nominations SMH 4 March 1939, p.12 col.8. Through the campiagn, the SMH referred to Evatt as being an Industrial Labor and a Heffron Labor candidate.
Corrections: Note that Hughes and Graham refer to Evatt as being a State Labor candidate. This group had been known as Industrial Labor or Heffron Labor at the 1938 election. Evatt has been listed as Industrial Labor here to avoid confusion with the Lang's State Labor from earlier in the 1930s, or the distinct Hughes-Evans State Labor that contested the 1941 election.