Kilmarnock by-election, 1933
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The Kilmarnock by-election, 1933 was a by-election held on 2 November 1933 for the British House of Commons constituency of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire.
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[edit] Vacancy
The vacancy had arisen when the National Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Craigie Aitchison had resigned his seat when he was appointed Lord Justice Clerk. Aitchison had held the seat since he was elected as a Labour Party candidate at a by-election in 1929.
[edit] Candidates
The National Labour candidate was 37-year-old Kenneth Lindsay, who had contested the 1924 and 1929 elections as a Labour Party candidate in English constituencies.
The parties in the National Government did not contest by-elections when vacancies arose in seats held by other paties in the government, so the Unionist Party and the National Liberals did not field candidates.
The Labour Party candidate in Kilmarnock was Rev J. Barr, hoping to regain the seat which Labour had won in 1929.
J. Pollock stood for the Independent Labour Party, and Sir A. M. MacEwain represented both the National Party of Scotland and the Scottish Party (the two parties united the following year to form the Scottish National Party).
[edit] Result
With the Labour vote split thee ways, the result was a victory for Lindsay, who was elected with less than 35% of the votes, one of the smallest votes vote shares ever for a by-election winner.[1] He held the seat until the 1945 general election, when he was elected as an independent MP for the Combined English Universities.
[edit] Votes
| Kilmarnock by-election, 2 November 1933 | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| National Labour | Kenneth Lindsay | 12,577 | 34.8 | −24.8 | |
| Labour | J. Barr | 9,924 | 27.4 | N/A | |
| Ind. Labour Party | J. Pollock | 7,575 | 20.9 | −19.5 | |
| National (Scotland) | Sir A. M. MacEwain | 6,098 | 16.9 | N/A | |
| Majority | 2,653 | 7.4 | −11.8 | ||
| Turnout | 77.3 | −2.2 | |||
| National Labour hold | Swing | N/A | |||
| General Election, October 1931: Kilmarnock | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| National Labour | Craigie Aitchison | 21,803 | 59.6 | N/A | |
| Ind. Labour Party | J. Pollock | 14,767 | 40.4 | N/A | |
| Majority | 7,036 | 19.2 | +3.6 | ||
| Turnout | 36,580 | 79.5 | +7.8 | ||
| National Labour hold | Swing | N/A | |||
[edit] See also
- Kilmarnock (UK Parliament constituency)
- Kilmarnock
- Kilmarnock by-election, 1929
- Kilmarnock by-election, 1946
- List of United Kingdom by-elections (1931–1950)
- Elections in Scotland
[edit] References
- Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs.
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