General elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago in 1938.

[1] The franchise was limited to people who owned property in their constituency with a rateable value of $60 (or owned property elsewhere with a rateable value of $48) and tenants or lodgers who paid the same sums in rent.

[2] Anyone who had received poor relief within the most recent six months before election day was disqualified from voting.

[1] The restrictions on candidates were more severe, with candidature limited to men that lived in their constituency, were literate in English, and owned property worth at least $12,000 or from which they received at least $960 in rent a year.

For candidates who had not lived in their constituency for at least a year, the property values were doubled.