Monmouth by-election, 1939
|
||
|---|---|---|
|
||
|
|
||
The Monmouth by-election, 1939 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Monmouth in Wales on 25 July 1939.
The Conservative MP John Arthur Herbert had resigned his seat on 1 July 1939, having been appointed as Governor of Bengal. Herbert had held the seat since a by-election in 1934.
The Conservative candidate was 55-year-old Leslie Pym, who had not had previously contested a parliamentary election.
The Labour Party candidate at the 1935 general election had been 22-year-old Michael Foot, who later became Leader of the Labour Party. Foot did not contest the by-election, when the Labour candidate was F.R. Hancock, who had been unsuccessful in Salisbury at the 1929 general election and at a by-election in 1931. He had also been an unsuccessful candidate in Lewes at the 1931 and 1935 general elections. He was also a Quaker and thus opposed to all war.
On a slightly reduced turnout, Pym held the seat for the Conservatives, with a reduced but still large majority of 5,815.
...
Wikipedia