1941 Dunbartonshire by-election

UK parliamentary by-election April 2022 The 1941 Dunbartonshire by-election was held on 27 February 1941. The by-election was held due to the appointment as sheriff substitute of the incumbent Labour MP, Thomas Cassells. It was won by the Labour candidate Adam McKinlay.May 2021 Because of the wartime truce his only opponent was Malcolm MacEwen, a Communist, who had a relatively strong vote, possibly because the constituency did include the Vale of Leven, a "little Moscow". It took place before the German invasion of the Soviet Union, when the Communist Party changed its line. The Scottish National Party had intended to stand a candidate - Robert MacEwen, the brother of Malcolm. However, he was serving in the Army at the time, and was not given permission by the military authorities to stand as a candidate; there was a dispute as to whether he had submitted his request in time and questions were raised in Parliament as to whether it had been delayed.By-Election Mystery https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000681/19410218/092/0005 Daily Herald 18 February 1941Parliamentary Candidature - Oral Questions https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1941-02-25/debates/19ebcb04-b4d7-46e1-b930-1a7d3a74fd7f/ParliamentaryCandidature Hansard en 25 February 1925 Dunbartonshire by-election, 1941Whitaker's Almanack, 1939 Labour Party (UK) Adam McKinlay 21,900 85.0 +36.9 Communist Party of Great Britain Malcolm MacEwen 3,862 15.0 New 18,038 70.0 +67.6 25,762 38.7 -29.9 Labour Party (UK) References Dunbartonshire by-election Dunbartonshire by-election, 1941 Category:Politics of Dunbartonshire Dunbartonshire by-election Dunbartonshire by-election Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Scottish constituencies