Buckingham by-election, 1943
The Buckingham by-election of 1943 was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 4 August 1943 for the House of Commons constituency of Buckingham in Buckinghamshire.
The by-election was held to fill the vacancy caused when the town's 45-year-old[1] Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) Brigadier John Whiteley was killed in a plane crash in Gibraltar, along with the Conservative MP Victor Cazalet and General Sikorksi, the leader of the Polish government-in-exile.[2] Whiteley had held the seat since a by-election in 1937.[3]
Candidates
The Conservative Party nominated as its candidate, Lionel Berry, the deputy chairman of Kemsley Newspapers Ltd (owner of The Sunday Times and the Daily Record), and eldest son of the company's proprietor, Viscount Kemsley.[4]
In accordance with an electoral truce between the parties in the wartime coalition government,[5] neither the Liberal nor Labour parties nominated a candidate.[3]
Result
As the only candidate, Berry was returned unopposed.[1][3] He held the seat for only two years, until his defeat at the 1945 general election.[3]
See also
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1937 |
February: St Pancras North • Manchester Gorton • Oxford University • Richmond-upon-Thames • March: Combined English Universities • Tonbridge • Farnham • April: Stalybridge and Hyde • Wandsworth Central • Birmingham West • May: York • June: Glasgow Hillhead • Buckingham • Plymouth Drake • Cheltenham • Hemel Hempstead • Holland with Boston • Bewdley • Ilford • St Ives • July: Kingston-upon-Thames • Chertsey • North Dorset • September: Glasgow Springburn • October: Islington North • November: Hastings
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1939 |
January: East Norfolk • February: Holderness • Ripon • March: Batley and Morley • Kincardineshire and West Aberdeenshire • April: South Ayrshire • May: Down • Sheffield Hallam • Westminster Abbey • Birmingham Aston • Southwark North • Kennington • July: Caerphilly • Portsmouth South • North Cornwall • Hythe • Monmouth • Colne Valley • August: Brecon and Radnor • October: Fareham • High Peak • Clackmannanshire and East Stirlingshire • Ormskirk • Ashton-under-Lyne • November: Macclesfield • December: Streatham • Manchester Stretford • Wells
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1942 |
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1944 |
January: Skipton • February: Brighton • West Derbyshire • Kirkcaldy Burghs • Sheffield Attercliffe • Bury St Edmunds • March: Camberwell North • April: Clay Cross • July: Manchester Rusholme • September: Bilston • October: Chelsea • Berwick-upon-Tweed
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