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1934 Southern Rhodesian general election

Field	Value
election_name	1934 Southern Rhodesian general election
country	Southern Rhodesia
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	1933 Southern Rhodesian general election
previous_year	1933
election_date
next_election	1939 Southern Rhodesian general election
next_year	1939
seats_for_election	All 30 seats in the Legislative Assembly
majority_seats	16
turnout	64.6%
image_size	130x130px
image1	Huggins.jpg
leader1	Godfrey Huggins
party1	United Rhodesia Party
leaders_seat1	Salisbury district
last_election1	–
seats1	24
seat_change1	New
popular_vote1	14,813
percentage1	64.01%
leader2	Harry Davies
party2	Rhodesia Labour Party
leaders_seat2	Bulawayo South
last_election2	5 seats
seats2	5
seat_change2
popular_vote2	6,092
percentage2	26.32%
party3	Reform Party (Southern Rhodesia)
last_election3	16 seats
seats3	1
seat_change3	15
popular_vote3	2,237
percentage3	9.67%
map_image	Composition of the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly 1934.svg
map_size	200px
map_caption	Composition of the Legislative Assembly after the election
title	Prime Minister
before_election	Godfrey Huggins
before_party	United Federal Party
after_election	Godfrey Huggins
after_party	United Federal Party

General elections were held in Southern Rhodesia on 7 November 1934, fourth elections since the colony of Southern Rhodesia was granted self-government. The elections were called only a year after the previous elections when the Prime Minister, Godfrey Huggins, formed the United Party as a merger of the conservative section of his Reform Party and the former governing Rhodesia Party. Huggins succeeded in winning a landslide, defeating all but one of his Reform Party opponents.

Electoral system

No changes were made to the franchise, the procedure of elections, or electoral boundaries since the previous election.

Political parties

The Reform Party was believed by many in Rhodesia to be a left-wing party but Huggins had presented a cautiously conservative Cabinet after winning power in 1933. In particular, Finance Minister Jacob Smit was a strong believer in conventional economics and opponent of Keynesianism. The course of government led eventually to a confrontration in August 1934 with the left-wing of the party over reform to the Rhodesian railways. Huggins decided to approach Sir Percy Fynn, leader of the Rhodesian Party, who pledged support for a National Government under Huggins.

However, the Acting Governor refused a dissolution on the grounds that the Assembly had many years left, and the government had not been defeated. Huggins persuaded the majority of the Executive of the Reform Party to suspend the party's constitution to allow a National Government on 17 September, and then formed the United Party with Fynn, asking a second time for a dissolution on the basis of a changed party alignment. This time the Acting Governor acceded.

Results

By constituency

Lab – Rhodesia Labour Party
Ref – Reform Party
UP – United Party

Constituency
Electorate and turnout	Candidate	Party	Votes
BULAWAYO CENTRAL
Two members
2,018 (61.4%)	†James Cowden	UP	683
†Donald MacIntyre	Lab	654
Arthur James Butler	UP	604
Edward Jonathan Davies	Lab	536
BULAWAYO NORTH
Two members
1,989 (65.1%)	†John Banks Brady	UP	967
†Allan Ross Welsh	UP	910
David Bennie	Lab	421
Frederick Martin	Lab	291
BULAWAYO SOUTH
1,257 (70.6%)	†Harry Herbert Davies	Lab	458
Hugh Beadle	UP	430
CHARTER
623	†Ernest Lucas Guest	UP	unopposed
EASTERN
886	†John Louis Martin	UP	unopposed
GATOOMA
842 (77.3%)	†William Sydney Senior	UP	366
Thomas Alfred Kimble	Lab	285
GWANDA
677 (70.2%)	†Sir Hugh Grenville Williams	Ref	257
Herbert Hildeyard Phillips	UP	218
GWELO
1,048 (63.2%)	†Frank Delano Thompson	UP	377
Albert Hill	Lab	285
HARTLEY
571 (79.5%)	James Joseph Conway	UP	256
Arthur Bertram Shepherd-Cross	Ref	117
Christopher Holderness	Lab	81
INSIZA
644 (69.9%)	Robert Clarkson Tredgold	UP	273
Leo George Robinson	Lab	110
Joseph Hussey	Ref	67
INYATI
756 (67.7%)	Frank Ernest Harris	UP	334
John Bazeley	Lab	178
LOMAGUNDI
818 (68.7%)	†Lewis Aloys MacDonald Hastings	UP	365
Frank Smith	Ref	197
MARANDELLAS
812 (58.6%)	Alfred William Vincent Crawley	UP	251
†Reginald Herbert Bruce Dickson	Ref	225
MATOPO
966 (66.9%)	†Robert Alexander Fletcher	UP	412
Jonah William White	Lab	234
MAZOE
891 (64.8%)	†Edward Walter Lionel Noaks	UP	467
Alexander Macintyre Hutchinson	Ref	110
QUE QUE
793 (71.6%)	†Charles Walter Leppington	UP	290
Edward Empson Webb	Lab	243
John William Watkinson	Ref	35
RAYLTON
1,243 (70.7%)	†Lawrence John Walter Keller	Lab	440
William Hives Eastwood	UP	439
SALISBURY CENTRAL
Two members
2,257 (66.6%)	†Jacob Hendrik Smit	UP	1,125
Robert Thomson Anderson	UP	848
James Kerr Taylor	Lab	335
Roger Edward Downes	Lab	315
Charles Olley	Ref	245
†Neil Housman Wilson	Ref	204
SALISBURY DISTRICT
966 (76.4%)	†Godfrey Huggins	UP	519
† Thomas Nangle	Ref	219
SALISBURY NORTH
Two members
2,016 (69.7%)	Vernon Arthur Lewis	UP	1,208
†Percival Donald Leslie Fynn	UP	1,198
William Lane Mitchell	Ref	233
William Martin	Lab	172
SALISBURY SOUTH
1,240 (71.5%)	†George Henry Walker	Lab	435
Alexander Daniel Kirstein	UP	350
Mrs. Otilia Liebermann	Ref	101
SELUKWE
818 (68.7%)	†Robert Dunipace Gilchrist	UP	416
Ernest Edward Fitzroy Blackwell	Ref	146
UMTALI NORTH
864 (66.9%)	†Donald Murray Somerville	UP	429
Albert Holman	Lab	149
UMTALI SOUTH
761 (75.7%)	†Jonathan Hunter Malcolm	Lab	329
Edgar Cuthbert Fremantle Whitehead	UP	247
VICTORIA
943 (76.6%)	†William Alexander Eustace Winterton	UP	641
John Davidson	Ref	81
WANKIE
689 (57.9%)	†Alexander Robert Thomson	UP	258
William McDonald	Lab	141

Byelections

Hartley

James Joseph Conway died on 10 May 1935, leading to a byelection on 4 July 1935.

Constituency	Candidate	Party	Votes
HARTLEY	Roger Edward Downes	Ref	202
Charles Malcolm Davenport	UP	146
Thomas Alfred Kimble	Lab	79

Selukwe

Robert Dunipace Gilchrist resigned on 30 June 1935, leading to a byelection on 28 August 1935.

Constituency	Candidate	Party	Votes
SELUKWE	Max Danziger	UP	353
Henry Frederick Edensor	Ref	182
Ernest Millington	Ind UP	117

Umtali South

Following his death, there was a byelection to replace Jonathan Hunter Malcolm on 15 September 1936.

Constituency
Electorate and turnout	Candidate	Party	Votes
UMTALI SOUTH
800 (62.0%)	James Brown Lister	Lab	244
Edgar Cuthbert Fremantle Whitehead	UP	153
William Arthur Rail	Ref	99

Salisbury North

Following his resignation on 31 July 1936, there was a byelection to replace Vernon Arthur Lewis on 21 September 1936.

Constituency
Electorate and turnout	Candidate	Party	Votes
SALISBURY NORTH
2,035 (54.9%)	Harry Bertin	UP	595
John Richard Dendy Young	Ref	522

Eastern

John Louis Martin died on 28 May 1938 and a byelection to replace him was held on 15 August 1938.

Constituency
Electorate and turnout	Candidate	Party	Votes
EASTERN
751 (81.4%)	Jacobus Petrus De Kock	UP	222
Douglas Abrahamson	UNP	160
Reginald Herbert Bruce Dickson	Ref	150
Roelof Hendrik Venter	Lab	79

Hartley

Following his death, there was a byelection to replace Roger Edward Downes on 30 August 1938.

Constituency
Electorate and turnout	Candidate	Party	Votes
HARTLEY
584 (76.7%)	Henry Hamilton Beamish	Ind	144
Thomas James Golding	RP	125
Leslie Manfred Noel Hodson	UP	118
Thomas George Gibson	Ref	61

References

Source Book of Parliamentary Elections and Referenda in Southern Rhodesia 1898–1962 ed. by F.M.G. Willson (Department of Government, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Salisbury 1963)
Holders of Administrative and Ministerial Office 1894–1964 by F.M.G. Willson and G.C. Passmore, assisted by Margaret T. Mitchell (Source Book No. 3, Department of Government, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Salisbury 1966)

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