General elections were held in Western Samoa on 5 November 1941.
Voting was restricted to European and mixed European-Samoans aged 21 or over.
[2] A total of 578 people registered to vote, including around a hundred German nationals, whose right to vote in the election was confirmed by the New Zealand government.
[3] It was reported in October 1941 that the two incumbent members Charles Dawson and Olaf Frederick Nelson would not stand; Nelson due to ill-health and Dawson having left the Samoa.
[4] However, Nelson did eventually contest the elections, alongside former MLCs Alfred Smyth and Arthur Williams, the shop manager Percy Glover and Amando Stowers, a planter and leader of the Labour Party.