The following elections occurred in the year 1938.

Africa

1938 South African general election General elections were held in South Africa on 18 May 1938 to elect the 150 members of the House of Assembly of South Africa, House of Assembly. The United Party won an absolute majority. Background The National Party (South Africa), National ...

Asia

* 1938 Philippine general election *

1938 Philippine legislative election Elections for the Second National Assembly were held on November 8, 1938, under a new law that allowed block voting, which favored the governing Nacionalista Party (formerly divided into the Democratica and the Pro-Independencia factions, which ...

* 1938 Soviet Union regional elections

Europe

1938 Estonian parliamentary election Events January * January 1 ** The Constitution of Estonia#Third Constitution (de facto 1938–1940, de jure 1938–1992), new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the a ...

1938 Irish general election The 1938 Irish general election to the 10th Dáil was held on Friday, 17 June following the dissolution of the 9th Dáil on 27 May 1938 by the Presidential Commission on the request of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera. It was a snap election, less th ...

1938 Irish presidential election The 1938 Irish presidential election was the first Irish presidential election, held to fill the new office of President of Ireland. Procedure The office of president was established by Article 12 of the new Constitution of Ireland, which came ...

* 1938 Kingdom of Yugoslavia parliamentary election *

1938 Polish legislative election Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 6 November 1938, with Senate elections held a week later on 13 November.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1491 They were the last elections in the Secon ...

* 1938 Portuguese legislative election * 1938 Soviet Union regional elections *

1938 German election and referendum Parliamentary elections were held in Germany (including recently annexed Austria) on 10 April 1938. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p762 They were the final elections to the Reichstag during Naz ...

United Kingdom

1938 Barnsley by-election The 1938 Barnsley by-election was a by-election held on 16 June 1938 for the British House of Commons constituency of Barnsley in what was then the West Riding of Yorkshire. The seat had become vacant on the death in April 1938 of the Labour Membe ...

1938 Bridgwater by-election The 1938 Bridgwater by-election was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Bridgwater, Somerset held on 17 November 1938. Vacancy The by-election was triggered when Reginald Croom-Johnson, the sitting Conser ...

1938 City of London by-election The 1938 City of London by-election was a by-election held on 6 April 1938 for the British House of Commons constituency of City of London, which covered the "Square Mile" which was the United Kingdom's traditional financial district. The by-elec ...

1938 Combined Scottish Universities by-election The 1938 Combined Scottish Universities by-election was a by-election held from 21 to 25 February 1938 for the Combined Scottish Universities, a university constituency of the British House of Commons. Vacancy The seat had become vacant when ...

1938 Lewisham West by-election The 1938 Lewisham West by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Lewisham West on 24 November 1938. Campaign The by-election was the sixth to be held after the Munich Agreement was signed b ...

1938 Northern Ireland general election The 1938 Northern Ireland general election was held on 9 February 1938. Like all previous elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland, it produced a large majority for the Ulster Unionist Party. The newly-formed Ulster Progressive Unionist ...

1938 Oxford by-election The 1938 Oxford by-election was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Oxford, held on 27 October 1938. The by-election was triggered when Robert Croft Bourne, the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament di ...

* 1938 Walsall by-election

North America

* Nicaraguan Constitutional Assembly election, 1938

Canada

* 1938 Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election *

1938 Edmonton municipal election The 1938 municipal election was held November 9, 1938 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and three trustees to sit on the public school board, while three trustees were acclaimed to the separate school board. Voter ...

1938 Ottawa municipal election The city of Ottawa, Canada held municipal elections on December 5, 1938. Mayor of Ottawa Plebiscites (only property owners could vote) Ottawa Board of Control (4 elected) Ottawa City Council The Ottawa City Council (french: Consei ...

1938 Saskatchewan general election The 1938 Saskatchewan general election was held on June 8, 1938, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. The Liberal Party was returned to power under its new leader, William John Patterson, but it lost twelve of the seats i ...

United States

* United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1938 * 1938 California gubernatorial election *

1938 Minnesota gubernatorial election The 1938 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1938. Republican Party of Minnesota candidate Harold Stassen defeated Farmer–Labor Party incumbent Elmer Benson. Martin A. Nelson and George E. Leach unsuccessfully ran for th ...

1938 New York state election The 1938 New York state election was held on November 8, 1938, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, the state comptroller, the attorney general, two U.S. Senators and two U.S. Representatives-at-large, as well as all members of the ...

* United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1938 *

1938 South Carolina gubernatorial election The 1938 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1938 to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. Burnet Rhett Maybank, Mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, won the contested Democratic primary and defeated Repu ...

1938 United States House of Representatives elections The 1938 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1938 which occurred in the middle of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's second term. Roosevelt's Democratic Party lost a ...

1938 United States Senate elections The 1938 United States Senate elections occurred in the middle of Franklin D. Roosevelt's second term. The Republicans gained eight seats from the Democrats, though this occurred after multiple Democratic gains since the 1932 election, leading ...

** United States Senate election in South Carolina, 1938

Oceania

1938 New Zealand general election The 1938 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 26th term. It resulted in the governing Labour Party being re-elected, although the newly founded National Party gained a certai ...

Australia

1938 New South Wales state election The 1938 New South Wales state election was held on 26 March 1938. This election was for all of the 90 seats in the 32nd New South Wales Legislative Assembly and was conducted in single member constituencies with compulsory preferential voting. ...

1938 Queensland state election Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 2 April 1938 to elect the 62 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The Labor government of Premier William Forgan Smith was seeking a third term in office. During the previous ...

1938 South Australian state election State elections were held in South Australia on 19 March 1938. All 39 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal and Country League government led by Premier of South Australia Richard L. Butler d ...

1938 Wakefield by-election A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Wakefield on 10 December 1938. This was triggered by the death of United Australia MP Charles Hawker. The election was won by Labor candidate Sydney McHugh from a massive ...

South America

1938 Chilean presidential election Presidential elections were held in Chile on 25 October 1938.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p262 The result was a narrow victory for Pedro Aguirre Cerda of the Radical Party, who received 50.5% o ...

1938 Argentine legislative election Legislative elections were held in Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second ...