Since the last election, the Nationalist Party had split, with some supporting former leader Sir Walter Lee's "Liberal" grouping.
The Tasmanian branch of the Country Party had also ceased to exist, with its members scattering to the Nationalists, Liberals or independents.
The Nationalist Party was defending three seats, although one sitting member ran as a Liberal and another as an independent.
George Becker* Allan Guy* Harold Holmes Victor Shaw* Robert Murphy George Pullen George Shields James Sullivan Henry Thomson* Luke Bryant Robert Coplestone Claude James* James Newton* Leslie Procter William Rose Jens Jensen (Ind Lab) Alexander Marshall Six seats were up for election.
John Cleary* Robert Cosgrove* Charles Culley* Enid Lyons Charles Metz Eric Ogilvie Walter Woods* Charles Grant William Hammond William Jarvis John McPhee* Leslie Payne John Soundy* Frederick Wilson Gerald Mahoney (Ind Lab) Edith Waterworth Six seats were up for election.