Bow and Bromley by-election, 1940
- Bow and Bromley by-election, 1940
The Bow and Bromley by-election, 1940 was a parliamentary by-election held on 12th June 1940 for the British House of Commons constituency of Bow and Bromley in the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar in the East End of London.
The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Labour Member of Parliament (MP), George Lansbury, died on 7th May 1940, aged 81. A former Leader of the Labour Party, he had held the seat since the 1922 general election, and previously from 1910 to 1912.
Candidates
During World War II, the political parties in the Coalition Government had agreed not contest by-elections in seats held by the other parties in the coalition. The Labour Party selected as its candidate Charles Key, a local Alderman and Leader of the Borough of Poplar. Key was a former teacher, who had left the clasroom when war broke out to become the deputy controller of civil defence in Poplar.
His only opponent was Mrs Isabel Brown of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Brown had twice before been a Parliamentary candidate in Scotland, in Kilmarnock and Motherwell; she had previously worked in the Ministry of Education in Moscow.
The British Union of Fascists had intended to put up Mick Clarke as a candidate although this had to be abandoned when he became one of the first group of members rounded up under Defence Regulation 18B. [R. Benewick, "Political Violence and Public Order", London: Allan Lane, 1969, p. 294]
Results
On a reduced turnout, Key held the seat for Labour with 95.8% of the votes. He remained Bow and Bromley's MP until the constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election, when he was elected as MP for the new Poplar constituency. He held that seat until 1964.
Votes
Election box begin
title=Bow and Bromley by-election, 12th June 1940Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Charles Key
votes = 11,594
percentage = 95.8
change = +18.2Election box candidate with party link
party = Communist Party of Great Britain
candidate = Mrs Isabel Brown
votes = 506
percentage = 4.2
change = N/AElection box majority
votes = 11,088
percentage = 91.6
change = +3.6Election box turnout
votes = 12,100
percentage = 32.4
change = −27.1Election box hold with party link
winner = Labour Party (UK)
swing =
ee also
*Bow and Bromley by-election, 1912
*Bow and Bromley (UK Parliament constituency)
*List of United Kingdom by-elections
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