1933 Clay Cross by-election

The 1933 Clay Cross by-election was held on 1 September 1933. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Labour MP, Charles Duncan.[1]

Unusually, the Constituency Labour Party asked for nominations for the vacancy, and published the list: Percy Barstow of the National Union of Railwaymen, former leader of the party Arthur Henderson, Samuel Sales of the Derbyshire Miners' Association, and Ben Smith, former Member of Parliament for Rotherhithe. Henderson was chosen as the party's candidate, and Herbert Drinkwater acted as his election agent.[2]

Henderson easily won the election.[2] This was Henderson's fifth by-election victory, having previously won in Burnley in 1924, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne East in 1923, in Widnes in 1919, and in Barnard Castle in 1903.

Clay Cross by-election, 1933 Electorate 44,466
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Arthur Henderson 21,931 69.3
Conservative John Moores 6,293 19.9
Communist Harry Pollitt 3,434 10.8
Majority 15,638 49.4 N/A
Turnout 31,658 71.2
Labour hold Swing

References
  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
  2. "Parliamentary by-elections". Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference: 41. 1933.


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