Английская Википедия:1940 Battersea North by-election
Шаблон:Use dmy dates The 1940 Battersea North by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 17 April 1940 for the British House of Commons constituency of Battersea North in the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea.
The seat had become vacant on the resignation due to ill-health of the constituency's Labour Member of Parliament (MP), William Sanders. He had held the seat since the 1929 general election, with a four-year gap after his defeat in the National landslide at the 1931 general election. He was re-elected at the 1935 election.
Candidates
The Labour Party selected as its candidate Francis Douglas, a former solicitor. In keeping with a war-time electoral pact, the Conservative and Liberal parties did not field candidates, and Douglas's only opponent was E.C. Joyce, who stood as an anti-war Independent candidate. Joyce received the backing of the Communist Party.
Results
On a considerably reduced turnout, Douglas held the seat for Labour with a majority of 9,156 votes; Joyce won just 7.4% of the votes cast, thus forfeiting his deposit.
Douglas would go on to hold the seat against Conservative opposition at the 1945 general election, until resigning in 1946 to take up the post of Governor of Malta, precipitating another by-election in the constituency.
Votes
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See also
- Battersea North constituency
- 1946 Battersea North by-election
- Battersea
- List of United Kingdom by-elections
- United Kingdom by-election records
References
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- 1940 elections in the United Kingdom
- By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in London constituencies
- 1940 in London
- Elections in the London Borough of Wandsworth
- Battersea
- April 1940 events
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