The 1938 Dartford by-election was held on 7 November 1938. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Frank Edward Clarke. It was won by the Labour candidate Jennie Adamson.[1] Adamson afterwards stated that she won, because the voters "were ashamed of Mr. Chamberlain's betrayal of Czechoslovakia and of democracy."[2] This was in reference to the Munich Pact, in which the United Kingdom under Prime Minister Chamberlain, accepted Nazi Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.[3]
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Labour | Jennie Adamson | 46,514 | 52.4 | ||
| Conservative | Godfrey Mitchell | 42,276 | 47.6 | ||
| Majority | 4,238 | 4.8 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 88,790 | 68.0 | |||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
References edit
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- ^ a b "LABOUR GAINS". The Sydney Morning Herald. 9 November 1938. p. 17. Retrieved 2 December 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Chamberlain, Neville; Mussolini, Benito; Hitler, Adolf; Daladier, Edouard (1938). Munich Agreement – via Wikisource.
- ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 383. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
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