1938 Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election
UK Parliamentary by-election
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The 1938 Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election was held on 21 December 1938. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Unionist member of parliament Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, who resigned the Conservative and Unionist whip at Westminster as a protest against the National government led by Neville Chamberlain and his European policy of appeasement of the fascist dictators Hitler and Mussolini, seeking re-election as an Independent. However, the seat was regained for the Unionists by William McNair Snadden.[1]
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21 December 1938
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Constituency of Kinross and Western Perthshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 66.6% ( 6.7%) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Result
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Unionist | William McNair Snadden | 11,808 | 52.94 | â8.3 | |
| Independent | Katharine Stewart-Murray | 10,495 | 47.06 | N/A | |
| Majority | 1,313 | 5.88 | â14.5 | ||
| Turnout | 22,303 | 66.6 | â6.7 | ||
| Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
See also
- 1963 Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election
- Ball, Stuart, âThe politics of appeasement: the fall of the Duchess of Atholl and the Kinross and West Perth by-election, December 1938â, Scottish Historical Review, vol. 69, no. 1 (1990), pp. 49-83.
- Hetherington, Sheila, Katharine Atholl 1874-1960: Against the Tide (Aberdeen University Press, 1989)
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