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1924 Dundee by-election

UK parliamentary by-election

Summary

UK parliamentary by-election

Field	Value
election_name	1924 Dundee by-election
country	United Kingdom
turnout	42.4% ( 41.4%)
next_year	1929
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	1924 United Kingdom general election
previous_year	Oct. 1924
election_date	22 December 1924
next_election	1929 United Kingdom general election
seats_for_election	Constituency of Dundee
<!-- Lab -->	candidate1	Tom Johnston
image1	[[File:Thomas Johnston (3x4 crop).png	x160px]]
party1	Labour Party (UK)
popular_vote1	22,973
percentage1	69.2%
image2	[[File:Lord Simon (3x4 crop).jpg	x160px]]
candidate2	Ernest Simon
party2	Liberal Party (UK)
popular_vote2	10,234
percentage2	30.8%
title	MP
before_election	E. D. Morel
before_party	Labour Party (UK)
after_election	Tom Johnston
after_party	Labour Party (UK)

The 1924 Dundee by-election was a by-election held on 22 December 1924 for the British House of Commons constituency of Dundee, in Scotland. It was won by the Labour Party candidate, Thomas Johnston.

Vacancy

The Labour Party MP E. D. Morel had died on 25 November 1924, aged 51. Morel had held the seat since the 1922 general election, when he had famously defeated Winston Churchill.

Candidates

The by-election was contested by only two candidates, both of whom were MPs who had been defeated elsewhere at the 1924 general election.

The Labour candidate was 42-year-old Thomas Johnston, who had been MP for Stirling and Clackmannan Western from 1922 to 1924. His only opponent was the Liberal candidate Ernest Simon, an English industrialist who had been MP for Manchester Withington from 1923.

Result

On a turnout barely half that of the general election in October, Johnston held the seat for Labour, with more than 69% of the vote. He did not contest the seat at the 1929 general election, when he was re-elected for his old constituency of Stirling and Clackmannan Western, and went on to become Secretary of State for Scotland from 1941 to 1945.

Simon was re-elected in 1929 for his old Withington seat, but lost it in 1931, and did not return to the House of Commons. He later joined the Labour Party, and in 1947 he was ennobled and appointed Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC.

Votes

Sources

Wikipedia Source

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