1933 Kilmarnock by-election
1933 Kilmarnock by-election
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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.
Contents
1 Vacancy
2 Candidates
3 Result
4 Votes
5 See also
6 References
Vacancy[edit]
The vacancy had arisen when Scotland's second most senior judge, the Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Alness, retired. It was a long-standing convention that when a vacancy arose in this office (or in the most senior judicial office, that of Lord President), the Lord Advocate (head of the Scottish criminal justice system) of the day would be appointed to fill the vacancy. The Lord Advocate in 1933 was Sir Craigie Mason Aitchison, K.C., M.P., and so he was appointed to the bench, automatically resigning his seat.
Aitchison had been elected as a member of the Labour Party in a 1929 by-election following the death of Robert Climie. In 1931, the Labour Government had split, with a handful of Labour MPs, including Aitchison, following Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald into a coalition National Government with the Conservatives. These MPs were expelled from the Labour Party and called themselves National Labour.
Candidates[edit]
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. MacEwen represented both the National Party of Scotland and the Scottish Party[1] (the two parties united the following year to form the Scottish National Party).
Result[edit]
With the Labour vote split three ways, the result was a victory for Lindsay, who was elected with less than 35% of the vote, one of the smallest vote shares ever for a by-election winner.[2] He held the seat until the 1945 general election, when he was elected as an independent MP for the Combined English Universities.
Votes[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
National Labour | Kenneth Lindsay | 12,577 | 34.8 | −24.8 | |
Labour | James Barr | 9,924 | 27.4 | N/A | |
Ind. Labour Party | John Pollock | 7,575 | 20.9 | −19.5 | |
Scottish Party | Alexander MacEwen | 6,098 | 16.9 | N/A | |
| Majority | 2,653 | 7.4 | −11.8 | ||
Turnout | 77.3 | −2.2 | |||
National Labour hold | Swing | N/A | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
National Labour | Craigie Aitchison | 21,803 | 59.6 | N/A | |
Ind. Labour Party | John 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 | |||
See also[edit]
- Kilmarnock
- Kilmarnock by-election, 1946
- List of United Kingdom by-elections (1931–1950)
- Elections in Scotland
References[edit]
^ ab "Kilmarnock By-election Result. National Government Success. Mr Lindsay's majority over Labour candidate. Scottish National Champion Last". The Glasgow Herald. 3 November 1933. p. 11. Retrieved 26 April 2017..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
^ See United Kingdom by-election records
Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
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- By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Scottish constituencies
- 1933 in Scotland
- 1933 elections in the United Kingdom
- Politics of Kilmarnock
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