Greenock by-election, 1941
- Greenock by-election, 1941
The Greenock by-election, 1941 was a parliamentary by-election held on 10 July 1941 for the British House of Commons constituency of Greenock in Renfrewshire.
The seat become vacant when the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Robert Gibson resigned, to take up the post of Chairman of the Scottish Land Court. Gibson had held the seat since a by-election in 1936.
Candidates
The Labour Party selected as its candidate Hector McNeil, a journalist and trade unionist and former councillor from Glasgow who had contested four previous parliamentary elections.
The parties in the war-time Coalition Government had agreed not to contest vacancies in seats held by other coalition parties, but other by-elections were contested by independent candidates or those from minor parties.
Results
No other candidates were nominated in Greenock, so McNeil was returned unopposed. He held the seat through four general elections, until his death shortly after the 1955 general election.
ee also
*Greenock constituency
*Greenock by-election, 1936
*Greenock by-election, 1955
*Greenock
*List of United Kingdom by-elections (1931–1950)
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