South Ayrshire by-election, 1946

The South Ayrshire by-election of 1946 was held on 7 February 1946. The byelection was held due to the death of the incumbent Labour MP, Alexander Sloan. It was won by the Labour candidate Emrys Hughes.^[1]^[2]

South Ayrshire by-election, 1946^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Emrys Hughes	20,434	61.7	+0.4
	Unionist	Robert Mathew	13,382	40.3	-0.4
Turnout			33,816
	Labour hold		Swing

References

↑ http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm
↑ "1946 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
↑ Scottish Conservative and Unionist Central Office, The Yearbook for Scotland (1967), p.86

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