Kenyan general election, 1938

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General elections were held in Kenya Colony between 26 March and 2 April 1938.^[1] Three of the eleven white seats in the Legislative Council were uncontested,^[2] whilst all Indian seats were contested,^[3] and saw more businessmen were elected than politicians.^[2] Lady Sidney Farrar became the country's first female Legislative Council member after defeating Conway Harvey in the Nyanza constituency by two votes.^[3]

Results

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	Notes
European seats
Aberdare (26 March)	Ernest Hay Wright		Re-elected
	Frans Johan Arnold
	Leonard George Edwyn Llewelyn
Coast Province (26 March)	Shirley Victor Cooke		Elected
Coast Province (26 March)	Ewart Grogan
Kiambu (2 April)	Josslyn Hay		Elected
Kiambu (2 April)	Arnold Bradley
Mombasa (30 March)	George Nicol		Elected
Mombasa (30 March)	Frederick Bemister		Defeated
Nairobi North	Ferdinand Cavendish-Bentinck	Unopposed	Re-elected
Nairobi South (30 March)	Marcuswell Maxwell		Elected
Nairobi South (30 March)	Thomas O'Shea
Nyanza (26 March)	Sidney Farrar		Elected
Nyanza (26 March)	Conway Harvey		Defeated
Rift Valley	Francis Scott	Unopposed	Re-elected
Trans Nzoia (26 March)	James Kirkwood		Re-elected
Trans Nzoia (26 March)	Francis Henry le Britton
Uasin Gishu (26 March)	Stanley Ghersie		Elected
Uasin Gishu (26 March)	Albert Hoey		Defeated
Ukamba	Robert Shaw	Unopposed	Re-elected
Indian seats
Central (26–28 March)	Shams-ud-Deen		Re-elected
	Isher Dass		Re-elected
	Alex de Souza		Defeated
	Thakur Dass
	Devi Dass Puri
	Mangat Nahar Singh		Defeated
Eastern (26–28 March)	Ambalal Bhailalbhai Patel		Elected
	Pandya Jagannath Bhavanishanker		Elected
	Karmali Khimji Pradhan
	Hussein Bhaloo Vellani
Western (26–28 March)	Rahemtulla Kassam		Elected
Western (26–28 March)	Dhanwant Singh
Arab seat
Colony and Protectorate	Ali bin Salim bin Khalfan	Unopposed	Elected
Source: East Africa and Rhodesia,^[4] Kenya Gazette,^[1] Hansard^[5]

References

1 2 Kenya Gazette, 7 March 1938
1 2 "Kenya Elections No Differences On General Policy", The Times, 4 April 1938, p12, Issue 47960
1 2 "News in Brief", The Times, 29 March 1938, p15, Issue 47955
↑ "New Candidates Sweep the Board", East Africa and Rhodesia, 7 April 1938, p906
↑ Legislative Council Debates Official Report, Second series, volume IV, 8 April–3 May 1938

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