Combined English Universities by-election, 1946

The Combined English Universities by-election, 1946 was a parliamentary by-election held on 18 March 1946 for the British House of Commons constituency of Combined English Universities.

There was no Labour Party candidate, which did not occur again in a Great Britain by-election in the UK until the Haltemprice and Howden by-election, 2008. It was the penultimate election in a university constituency to the British Parliament and the final one to occur in England, with all university constituencies abolished in 1950.

Previous MP

The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Independent Member of Parliament (MP), Eleanor Rathbone, died. She had been the constituency's MP since the 1929 general election.

Votes

By-Election 13-18 March 1946: Combined English Universities
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Strauss	5,483	30.0	N/A
	Independent	Mary Stocks	5,124	28.0	N/A
	Independent	Ernest Simon	4,028	22.0	N/A
	Independent Labour	Stanley Wormald	3,414	18.7	N/A
	British People's Party	Gerard Oddie	239	1.3	N/A
Majority			359	2.0	N/A
Turnout			18,288	42.1	-7.9
Registered electors			43,438
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing	N/A

References

• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd edition ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages