Bexley by-election, 1946

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The Bexley by-election of 1946 was held on 22 July 1946. The byelection was held due to the deputy chairman of assistance board of the incumbent Labour MP, Jennie Adamson. It was won by the Labour candidate Ashley Bramall. [1]

Bexley was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Bexley district of south-east London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Jennie Adamson British politician

Janet Laurel Adamson was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. She sat in the House of Commons from 1938 to 1946, and served as a junior minister in Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government.

Sir Ernest Ashley Bramall was a British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament for Bexley from 1946 to 1950 and Leader of the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) for 11 years.

Bexley by-election, 1946 [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labour Ashley Bramall 19,759 52.46 -4.47
Conservative J.C. Lockwood 17,908 47.54 +17.74
Majority 1,851 4.91 -22.22
Turnout 37,667
Labour hold Swing

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References

  1. http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm
  2. "1946 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2015-08-12.