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1935 Combined Scottish Universities by-election

UK parliamentary by-election

Field	Value
election_name	1935 Combined Scottish Universities by-election
type	parliamentary
country	United Kingdom
seats_for_election	Constituency of Combined Scottish Universities
ongoing	no
previous_election	1934 Combined Scottish Universities by-election
previous_year	1934
next_election	1935 United Kingdom general election
next_year	Nov. 1935
election_date	17–22 June 1935
candidate1	John Graham Kerr
image1	[[File:John Graham Kerr (3x4 crop).jpg	x160px]]
party1	Unionist Party (Scotland)
popular_vote1	20,507
percentage1	82.7%
candidate2	Naomi Mitchison
image2	Lab
party2	Labour Party (UK)
popular_vote2	4,293
percentage2	17.3%
title	MP
posttitle	Subsequent MP
before_election	John Buchan
before_party	Unionist Party (Scotland)
after_election	John Graham Kerr
after_party	Unionist Party (Scotland)
turnout	48.1%

Vacancy

The seat had become vacant when the sitting Unionist Member of Parliament (MP), John Buchan had resigned his seat when he was appointed as Governor General of Canada. He had held the seat since a by-election in April 1927.

Candidates

The Unionist candidate was 55-year-old John Graham Kerr, Regius Professor of Zoology at the University of Glasgow. The Labour Party candidate was the novelist and poet Naomi Mitchison. There was no Liberal Party candidate.

Neither Kerr nor Mitchison had previously contested a parliamentary election.

Result

The result was a victory for the Unionist candidate, Prof. Kerr, who won over 80% of the votes. He resigned his university chair, held the seat until the university constituencies were abolished for the 1950 general election.

Votes

Previous election

Sources

Info: Wikipedia Source

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