This is a list of candidates for the 1938 New South Wales state election. The election was held on 26 March 1938.
Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used.
| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Coalition candidate | Other candidates |
|---|
| Labor}}| | UAP}}| | |
| Albury | United Australia | Edward Jones | Alexander Mair (UAP) |
| Annandale | Labor | Bob Gorman |
| Armidale | Country | David Drummond (CP) | William Broun (Ind)
Charles Hobbs (Ind) |
| Arncliffe | Labor | Joseph Cahill | Ernest Barton (UAP) |
| Ashburnham | Country | Edgar Dring | Hilton Elliott (CP) | William Gibbons (Ind) |
| Ashfield | United Australia | Athol Richardson (UAP) | Thomas Cavill (Ind) |
| Auburn | Labor | Jack Lang | Jack Hooke (ILP) |
| Balmain | Labor | John Quirk | John O'Carroll (Ind)
Thomas Payne (CPA) |
| Bankstown | Labor | James McGirr |
| Barwon | Country | Thomas Kane | Ben Wade (CP) |
| Bathurst | Labor | Gus Kelly | Roland Green (CP)
Thomas Mutch (UAP) |
| Bondi | United Australia | Henry Collins | Norman Thomas (UAP) | Richard Brown (Ind)
Thomas Hogan (Ind) |
| Botany | Labor | Francis Kelly | Bob Heffron (ILP) |
| Bulli | Labor | John Sweeney | Jack Miles (CPA)
Edward Ryan (Ind) |
| Burwood | United Australia | Gordon Jackett (UAP)
Harrie Mitchell* (UAP) |
| Byron | Country | Arthur Budd (CP) | Frederick Stuart (Ind) |
| Canterbury | Labor | Arthur Tonge | Edward Hocking (UAP) |
| Casino | Country | John Reid (CP) |
| Castlereagh | Country | Les Murphy | Alfred Yeo (CP) |
| Cessnock | Labor | Jack Baddeley | Eugene O'Neill (ILP) |
| Clarence | Country | Alfred Henry (CP)
Cecil Wingfield* (CP) |
| Cobar | Labor | Mat Davidson |
| Concord | United Australia | Leonard Thompson | Stan Lloyd (UAP) |
| Coogee | United Australia | John Dunningham (UAP) | Mark Foots (Ind) |
| Cootamundra | Country | Ken Hoad | Bill Ross (CP) |
| Corowa | Independent | Ebenezer Kendell | Christopher Lethbridge* (Ind)
Clive Walker (Ind) |
| Croydon | United Australia | Bertram Stevens (UAP) | Garry Gordon (Ind) |
| Drummoyne | United Australia | Ray Maher | John Lee (UAP) |
| Dubbo | Country | Leo Taylor | George Wilson (CP) |
| Dulwich Hill | United Australia | Leslie Morrow | Guy Arkins* (UAP)
Ronald McCredie (UAP) |
| George's River | United Australia | Albert Kealman | Cecil Monro (UAP) |
| Glebe | Labor | Bill Carlton | Horace Foley (ILP)
Bertie Lewis (Ind) |
| Gloucester | United Australia | Charles Bennett (UAP) | Ray Fitzgerald (Ind)
Henry Rooke (Ind) |
| Gordon | United Australia | William Milne (UAP)
Harry Turner* (UAP) |
| Goulburn | Labor | Jack Tully | Frederick Davies (CP)
Peter Loughlin (UAP) | Robert Tatham (Ind) |
| Granville | United Australia | Bill Lamb | Claude Fleck (UAP) |
| Hamilton | Labor | Joshua Arthur |
| Hartley | Labor | Hamilton Knight |
| Hawkesbury | United Australia | Ronald Walker (UAP) | Victor Gillespie (Ind) |
| Hornsby | United Australia | William Henson (UAP)
James Shand* (UAP)
Sydney Storey (UAP) | Howard Miscamble (Ind) |
| Hurstville | United Australia | Michael Croot | James Webb (UAP) |
| Illawarra | Labor | Billy Davies |
| King | Labor | Daniel Clyne | Rowland Bowen (UAP) | Patrick McDonnell (Ind)
Josiah Trenerry (Ind) |
| Kogarah | United Australia | John Hibberd | James Ross (UAP) | John Battye (Ind) |
| Kurri Kurri | Labor | George Booth |
| Lachlan | Country | John Grace | Griffith Evans* (CP)
John Parker (CP)
Charles Thomas (CP) | George Berry (Ind) |
| Lakemba | Labor | Fred Stanley | William Dowe (Ind) |
| Lane Cove | United Australia | Herbert FitzSimons |
| Leichhardt | Labor | Claude Matthews | Arthur Doughty (Ind)
James Dunn (ILP) |
| Lismore | Country | William Frith (CP) |
| Liverpool Plains | Country | Thomas Ryan | Harry Carter (CP) |
| Maitland | United Australia | Walter O'Hearn | Walter Howarth (UAP) |
| Manly | United Australia | Robert Miller (UAP)
Alfred Reid* (UAP)
Alfred Seller (UAP) | Richard Fitzgerald (Ind) |
| Marrickville | Labor | Leslie Balzen | Frederick Rushton (UAP) | Carlo Lazzarini (ILP) |
| Monaro | Country | Clarence Moore | William Hedges (CP) |
| Mosman | United Australia | Herbert Lloyd* (UAP)
Henry Storey (UAP) |
| Mudgee | Labor | Bill Dunn | Eric Pye (CP)
Reginald Wilson (CP) |
| Murray | Country | James Lloyd | Joe Lawson (CP) |
| Murrumbidgee | Country | George Enticknap | Robert Hankinson (CP) |
| Namoi | Country | Ernest Hogan | Colin Sinclair (CP) |
| Nepean | United Australia | John Jackson | Arthur Hebblewhite (UAP)
Joseph Jackson* (UAP) |
| Neutral Bay | United Australia | Reginald Weaver (UAP) |
| Newcastle | Labor | Frank Hawkins | Claude Dalby (Ind) |
| Newtown | Labor | Frank Burke | Cyril Glassop (Ind) |
| North Sydney | United Australia | Henry Clayden | Hubert Primrose (UAP) |
| Orange | United Australia | Edward McGarry | Alwyn Tonking (UAP) |
| Oxley | United Australia | Lewis Martin (UAP) | George Mitchell (Ind) |
| Paddington | Labor | Maurice O'Sullivan | Lance Sharkey (CPA) |
| Parramatta | Labor | Albert Rowe | George Gollan (UAP) |
| Petersham | United Australia | Bill Sheahan | Eric Solomon (UAP) |
| Phillip | Labor | Tom Shannon |
| Raleigh | Country | John Devine | Roy Vincent (CP) | Les Jordan (Ind) |
| Randwick | United Australia | Bob O'Halloran | Arthur Moverly (UAP) |
| Redfern | Labor | William McKell |
| Ryde | United Australia | James Walsh | Eric Spooner (UAP) | William Harrison (Ind) |
| South Coast | United Australia | Henry Bate (UAP) |
| Sturt | Labor | Ted Horsington |
| Tamworth | United Australia | John Killalea | Frank Chaffey (UAP) | Augustine Logue (Ind) |
| Temora | Country | Doug Dickson* (CP)
Hugh Roberton (CP) | Alfred Holland (Ind)
Harold Munro (Ind)
Lancelot Redgrave (Ind) |
| Tenterfield | Country | Michael Bruxner (CP) | William McCotter (Ind)
Edward Ogilvie (Ind) |
| Upper Hunter | Country | Malcolm Brown (CP) |
| Vaucluse | United Australia | Murray Robson (UAP) |
| Wagga Wagga | Country | Eric McKeig | Matthew Kilpatrick (CP) |
| Waratah | Labor | Robert Cameron | Robert Cram (CPA) |
| Waverley | United Australia | William Clementson | John Waddell (UAP) |
| Willoughby | United Australia | Edward Sanders (UAP) |
| Wollondilly | United Australia | Mark Morton (UAP) |
| Woollahra | United Australia | Arthur Butterell (UAP)
Vernon Treatt* (UAP) |
| Yass | United Australia | George Ardill (UAP) | Vivian Partridge (Ind) |
| Young | Country | Reginald Phillips | Albert Reid (CP) |