1935 Liverpool Wavertree by-election
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The 1935 Liverpool Wavertree by-election was a by-election held in England for the House of Commons constituency of Liverpool Wavertree on 6 February 1935. It was won by the Labour Party candidate Joseph Cleary.
Vacancy
The seat had become vacant when the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Ronald Nall-Cain had succeeded to the peerage as Baron Brocket.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". He had held the seat since a by-election in 1931.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Electoral history
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| Script error: No such module "Political party". | C. G. Clark | 9,504 | 22.1 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Majority | 23,972 | 55.8 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
| Turnout | 42,980 | 75.2 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
| Script error: No such module "Political party". hold | Swing | +12.9 | |||
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Candidates
The Conservative candidate was James Platt, but Randolph Churchill (son of the future Prime Minister Winston Churchill) stood as an "independent Conservative".Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The Labour Party candidate was 32-year-old Joseph Cleary, a local magistrate.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The Liberal Party selected 49 year-old Liverpool solicitor, Tudor Artro Morris as their candidate. Morris had contested Wallasey for the Liberals at the 1922 and 1923 general elections. He was educated at the Liverpool Institute and Liverpool University.[1]
Result
With the Conservative vote split between the official candidate and the independent Churchill, the result was a victory for the Labour candidate, Joseph Jackson Cleary, who took the seat on a swing of 30%.
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| Script error: No such module "Political party". | James Platt | 13,711 | 31.2 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Randolph Churchill | 10,575 | 23.9 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Tudor Artro Morris | 4,208 | 9.5 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Majority | 1,840 | 4.1 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
| Turnout | 44,165 | 72.3 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
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Aftermath
Cleary was unseated at the 1935 general election by the Conservative Peter Shaw, who held the seat until he stood down at the 1945 general election.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
See also
- Liverpool Wavertree (UK Parliament constituency)
- 1931 Liverpool Wavertree by-election
- List of United Kingdom by-elections
- United Kingdom by-election records
Sources
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- ↑ The Liberal Year Book, 1927
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