1939 Hythe by-election

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1939 Hythe by-election
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  1935 20 July 1939 1945  

Constituency of Hythe
Turnout62.4% (Decrease2.svg 5.9%)
 First partySecond party
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Lib
Candidate Rupert Brabner Frank Ongley Darvall
Party Conservative Liberal
Popular vote12,0169,577
Percentage54.2%43.2%
SwingDecrease2.svg9.7%Increase2.svg 7.1%

MP before election

Philip Sassoon
Conservative

Elected MP

Rupert Brabner
Conservative

The 1939 Hythe by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 20 July 1939 for the British House of Commons constituency of Hythe.

Contents

Previous MP

The vacancy was caused by the death of the Conservative MP, Sir Philip Sassoon, 3rd Baronet.

Previous result

General election, 14 November 1935 [1] Electorate: 35,205
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Philip Sassoon 15,359 63.9 −21.0
Liberal Richard Hathaway Ellis8,68836.1New
Majority6,67127.8−42.0
Turnout 24,04768.3−3.5
Conservative hold Swing

Candidates

Result

Hythe by-election, 1939 [1] Electorate 35,535
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Rupert Brabner 12,016 54.2 −9.7
Liberal Frank Ongley Darvall 9,57743.2+7.1
British People's St John Philby 5762.6New
Majority2,43911.0−16.8
Turnout 22,16962.4−5.9
Conservative hold Swing -8.4

Aftermath

Rupert Brabner served as a junior Government Minister. He died on active service with the RNVR early in 1945. Frank Darvall had planned to contest Hythe at a 1939 or 1940 general election, but never stood for Parliament again. St. John Philby also disappeared from the electoral scene along with the British People's Party, which never contested an election again.

General election, 5 July 1945 [1] Electorate 23,575
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Harry Mackeson 8,048 46.5 −7.7
Labour David Graham Widdiscombe6,09135.2New
Liberal Arthur Dyke Beauchamp James3,15218.2−25.0
Majority1,95711.3+0.3
Turnout 17,29173.3+10.9
Conservative hold Swing

References

  1. 1 2 3 British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig