This is a list of the members of the

Australian House of Representatives The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the upper house being the Senate. Its composition and powers are established in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia. The term of members o ...

in the 16th Australian Parliament, which was elected at the 1940 election on 21 September 1940. The incumbent

United Australia Party The United Australia Party (UAP) was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. The party won four federal elections in that time, usually governing in coalition with the Country Party. It provided two prim ...

led by Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies with coalition partner the Country Party led by

Archie Cameron Archie Galbraith Cameron (22 March 18959 August 1956) was an Australian politician. He was a government minister under Joseph Lyons and Robert Menzies, leader of the Country Party from 1939 to 1940, and finally Speaker of the House of Represe ...

narrowly defeated the opposition

Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also simply known as Labor, is the major centre-left political party in Australia, one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. The party forms t ...

led by

John Curtin John Curtin (8 January 1885 – 5 July 1945) was an Australian politician who served as the 14th prime minister of Australia from 1941 until his death in 1945. He led the country for the majority of World War II, including all but the last few ...

and continued to hold power with the support of two independents. In October 1941 the two independents switched their support to Curtin, bringing him to power.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Members Of The Australian House Of Representatives, 1940-1943 Members of Australian parliaments by term 20th-century Australian politicians