Combined English Universities by-election, 1946
The Combined English Universities by-election, 1946 was a parliamentary by-election held on 18 March 1946 for the British House of Commons constituency of Combined English Universities.
There was no Labour Party candidate, which did not occur again in a Great Britain by-election in the UK until the Haltemprice and Howden by-election, 2008. It was the penultimate election in a university constituency to the British Parliament and the final one to occur in England, with all university constituencies abolished in 1950.
Previous MP
The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Independent Member of Parliament (MP), Eleanor Rathbone, died. She had been the constituency's MP since the 1929 general election.
Votes
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Henry Strauss | 5,483 | 30.0 | N/A | |
Independent | Mary Stocks | 5,124 | 28.0 | N/A | |
Independent | Sir Ernest Simon | 4,028 | 22.0 | N/A | |
Independent Labour | Stanley Wormald | 3,414 | 18.7 | N/A | |
British People's Party | Gerard Oddie | 239 | 1.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 359 | 2.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 18,288 | 42.1 | -7.9 | ||
Registered electors | 43,438 | ||||
Conservative gain from Independent | Swing | N/A |
References
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