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    1932 Dulwich by-election

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    1932 Dulwich by-election
    ← 1931 8 June 1932 1935 →
     
    Candidate Smith Cooke-Taylor Bentwich
    Party Conservative Liberal Labour
    Popular vote 12,342 3,998 3,905
    Percentage 61.0 19.8 19.3
    MP before election

    Hall
    Conservative

    		Subsequent MP

    Smith
    Conservative

    The 1932 Dulwich by-election was a by-election held on 8 June 1932 for the British House of Commons constituency of Dulwich in South London.

    Vacancy

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    The by-election was triggered by the death of the serving Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP), Sir Frederick Hall.[citation needed]

    Electoral history

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    The former Conservative member had a large majority and the seat was considered a safe seat for the party. The result of the last election was;

    General election 1931: Dulwich
    Party Candidate Votes % ±%
    Conservative Frederick Hall 21,752 71.5
    Labour F. Hughes 4,747 15.6
    Liberal C. R. Cooke-Taylor 3,924 12.9
    Majority 17,005 55.9
    Turnout 30,423
    Conservative hold Swing

    Candidates

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    • The Conservative and National candidate was 48-year-old Bracewell Smith, a member of Holborn Borough Council from 1922, serving as Mayor 1931–32, and he served on the London County Council from 1925 to 1928. Smith made his fortune in property. In particular he was a major hotel investor/owner and who built the Park Lane Hotel in 1920.[1]
    • The Labour candidate was 40-year-old Helen Bentwich, a trade unionist. She was a niece of the Home Secretary, Sir Herbert Samuel, and had recently returned from Palestine where her husband, Norman Bentwich, had been Attorney-General.
    • The Liberal candidate was 49-year-old Dr Charles Cooke-Taylor, a psychiatrist. In 1910 Cooke-Taylor contested Holborn as a candidate of the Liberal Party. Between 1918 and 1931 he contested the Dulwich seat six times, though he never won.

    Campaign

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    The major issues were the stringent financial policies of the National Government, and for the Liberal candidate, opposition to protectionism.

    Result

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    The result was much as expected, with turnout around two-thirds of what it had been in the previous year's general election. The Conservative candidate's majority was slashed in half, but the Liberal candidate slightly increased his vote, pushing Labour into third place.

    Dulwich by-election, 1932 Electorate
    Party Candidate Votes % ±%
    Conservative Bracewell Smith 12,342 61.0 −10.5
    Liberal C. R. Cooke-Taylor 3,998 19.8 +6.9
    Labour Helen Bentwich 3,905 19.3 +3.7
    Majority 8,344 41.2 −14.7
    Turnout 20,245 43.0
    Conservative hold Swing

    Aftermath

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    General election 1935: Dulwich Electorate 43,025
    Party Candidate Votes % ±%
    Conservative Bracewell Smith 16,870 60.8
    Labour J V Delahaye 7,142 25.7
    Liberal C. R. Cooke-Taylor 3,743 13.5
    Majority 9,728 35.1
    Turnout 27,755
    Conservative hold Swing

    See also

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    • List of United Kingdom by-elections
    • Dulwich constituency

    References

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    Specific

    1. ^ www.luxuryhoteladvisor.com Archived November 4, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
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