West Derbyshire by-election, 1944

The West Derbyshire by-election of 1944 was held on 17 February 1944. The byelection was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, Henry Philip Hunloke. It was won by the Independent candidate Charles Frederick White.^[1]

West Derbyshire by-election, 1944
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Labour	Charles Frederick White	16,336	57.7
	Conservative	Marquess of Hartington	11,775	41.5
	Agriculturalist	Robert Goodall	233	0.8
Majority			4,561	16.2
Turnout				65.4
	Independent Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

References

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1936	January: Combined Scottish Universities February: Ross and Cromarty March: Dunbartonshire Llanelli May: Peckham June: Lewes July: Derby Balham and Tooting East Grinstead October: Birmingham Erdington November: Clay Cross Preston Greenock

1937	February: St Pancras North Manchester Gorton Oxford University Richmond-upon-Thames March: Combined English Universities Tonbridge Farnham April: Stalybridge and Hyde Wandsworth Central Birmingham West May: York June: Glasgow Hillhead Buckingham Plymouth Drake Cheltenham Hemel Hempstead Holland with Boston Bewdley Ilford St Ives July: Kingston-upon-Thames Chertsey North Dorset September: Glasgow Springburn October: Islington North November: Hastings

1938	January: Farnworth February: Pontypridd Ipswich Combined Scottish Universities April: City of London Fulham West May: Lichfield Aylesbury June: West Derbyshire Stafford Barnsley July: Willesden East October: Oxford November: Dartford Walsall Bridgwater Doncaster Lewisham West Fylde December: Kinross and Western Perthshire

1939	January: East Norfolk February: Holderness Ripon March: Batley and Morley Kincardineshire and West Aberdeenshire April: South Ayrshire May: Down Sheffield Hallam Westminster Abbey Birmingham Aston Southwark North Kennington July: Caerphilly Portsmouth South North Cornwall Hythe Monmouth Colne Valley August: Brecon and Radnorshire October: Fareham High Peak Clackmannanshire and East Stirlingshire Ormskirk Ashton-under-Lyne November: Macclesfield December: Streatham Stretford Wells

1940	February: Southampton City of London Swansea East Belfast East Southwark Central Silvertown Cambridge University March: Kettering City of Chester Leeds North East April: Argyll Lonsdale Battersea North Glasgow Pollok May: Brighton East Renfrewshire Middleton and Prestwich June: Spen Valley Newcastle North Newcastle West Bow and Bromley Croydon North Wandsworth Central Bournemouth July: Montrose Burghs Nottingham Central Rochdale Wansbeck August: Middlesbrough West Mitcham Heywood and Radcliffe September: Bolton Manchester Exchange Preston November: Queen's University Belfast Aldershot Southampton December: Northampton Birmingham Edgbaston

1941	February: Doncaster South Dorset Petersfield Dunbartonshire March: Hitchin Bodmin Carmarthen April: Great Yarmouth West Bromwich Mansfield May: King's Norton Hornsey June: West Dorset July: Greenock Edinburgh West Dudley Pontefract August: Berwick-upon-Tweed September: Scarborough and Whitby The Wrekin October: Lancaster November: Brighton Hampstead December: Harrow Edinburgh Central

1942	February: North East Derbyshire Keighley March: Nuneaton Manchester Gorton Newcastle-under-Lyme Wigan Grantham April: Tavistock Cardiff East Glasgow Cathcart Wallasey Rugby May: Putney Chichester June: Llandaff and Barry Maldon Windsor July: Salisbury Spennymoor August: Rothwell Whitechapel and St Georges Poplar South Sheffield Park October: Manchester Clayton Ince

1943	January: Hamilton University of Wales February: Belfast West Ashford Antrim Midlothian and Peebles King's Lynn Portsmouth North Bristol Central Watford April: Buckingham Eddisbury Daventry June: The Hartlepools Newark Birmingham Aston July: Burton-on-Trent August: Chippenham October: St Albans Peterborough November: Woolwich West December: Consett Darwen Acton

1944	January: Skipton February: Brighton West Derbyshire Kirkcaldy Burghs Sheffield Attercliffe Bury St Edmunds March: Camberwell North April: Clay Cross July: Manchester Rusholme September: Bilston October: Chelsea Berwick-upon-Tweed

1945	April: Motherwell Combined Scottish Universities Chelmsford Caernarvon Boroughs May: Middlesbrough West Neath Newport

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