1932 Dulwich by-election

UK parliamentary by-election June 2025 April 2022 1932 Dulwich by-election presidential United Kingdom Dulwich (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1930s 1931 Dulwich (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1930s 1935 8 June 1932 Smith Conservative Party (UK) 12,342 61.0% Cooke-Taylor Liberal Party (UK) 3,998 19.8% Bentwich Labour Party (UK) 3,905 19.3% Dulwich1918.png 250px MP Subsequent MP Hall Conservative Party (UK) Smith Conservative Party (UK) 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 The by-election was triggered by the death of the serving Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP), Sir Frederick Hall.June 2025 Electoral history 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 Conservative Party (UK) Frederick Hall 21,752 71.5 Labour Party (UK) F. Hughes 4,747 15.6 Liberal Party (UK) C. R. Cooke-Taylor 3,924 12.9 17,005 55.9 30,423 Conservative Party (UK) +18.7 Candidates 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.www.luxuryhoteladvisor.com https://web.archive.org/web/20061104180125/http://www.luxuryhoteladvisor.com/profile.php?property=PKL November 4, 2006 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 The major issues were the stringent financial policies of the National Government, and for the Liberal candidate, opposition to protectionism. Result 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 Conservative Party (UK) Bracewell Smith 12,342 61.0 -10.5 Liberal Party (UK) C. R. Cooke-Taylor 3,998 19.8 +6.9 Labour Party (UK) Helen Bentwich 3,905 19.3 +3.7 8,344 41.2 -14.7 20,245 43.0 -27.7 Conservative Party (UK) Aftermath General election 1935: Dulwich Electorate 43,025 Conservative Party (UK) Bracewell Smith 16,870 60.8 Labour Party (UK) J V Delahaye 7,142 25.7 Liberal Party (UK) C. R. Cooke-Taylor 3,743 13.5 9,728 35.1 27,755 Conservative Party (UK) See also List of United Kingdom by-elections Dulwich constituency References The Times, 9 June 1932 March 2012 Specific Dulwich,1932 Dulwich by-election Dulwich by-election Dulwich,1932 By-election, 1932