1938 Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election

1938 Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election
21 December 1938
Constituency of Kinross and Western Perthshire
Turnout66.6% (6.7%)
  First party Second party
 
UP
Candidate William McNair Snadden Katharine Stewart-Murray
Party Unionist Independent
Popular vote 11,808 10,495
Percentage 52.94% 47.06%
Swing 8.3% N/A
MP before election

Katharine Stewart-Murray
Unionist

Subsequent MP

William McNair Snadden
Unionist

The 1938 Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election was held on 21 December 1938. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Unionist member of parliament Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, who resigned the Conservative and Unionist whip at Westminster as a protest against the National government led by Neville Chamberlain and his European policy of appeasement of the fascist dictators Hitler and Mussolini, seeking re-election as an Independent. However, the seat was regained for the Unionists by William McNair Snadden.[1]

Result

Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election, 1938
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist William McNair Snadden 11,808 52.94 −8.3
Independent Katharine Stewart-Murray 10,495 47.06 N/A
Majority 1,313 5.88 −14.5
Turnout 22,303 66.6 −6.7
Unionist hold Swing

See also

  • 1963 Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election
  • Ball, Stuart, ‘The politics of appeasement: the fall of the Duchess of Atholl and the Kinross and West Perth by-election, December 1938’, Scottish Historical Review, vol. 69, no. 1 (1990), pp. 49-83.
  • Hetherington, Sheila, Katharine Atholl 1874-1960: Against the Tide (Aberdeen University Press, 1989)

References

  1. ^ "House of Commons". www.leighrayment.com. Archived from the original on 7 June 2008.


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