1934 Southern Rhodesian general election

May 2013 July 2024 none 1934 Southern Rhodesian general election Southern Rhodesia parliamentary no 1933 Southern Rhodesian general election 1933 yes 1934 11 07 1939 Southern Rhodesian general election 1939 All 30 seats in the Legislative Assembly 16 64.6% 130x130px Huggins.jpg Godfrey Huggins United Rhodesia Party Salisbury district – 24 New 14,813 64.01% Harry Davies Rhodesia Labour Party Bulawayo South 5 seats 5 6,092 26.32% Reform Party (Southern Rhodesia) 16 seats 1 15 2,237 9.67% Composition of the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly 1934.svg 200px Composition of the Legislative Assembly after the election Prime Minister Godfrey Huggins United Federal Party Godfrey Huggins United Federal Party General elections were held in Southern Rhodesia on 7 November 1934, fourth elections since the colony of Southern Rhodesia was granted self-government. The elections were called only a year after the previous elections when the Prime Minister, Godfrey Huggins, formed the United Party as a merger of the conservative section of his Reform Party and the former governing Rhodesia Party. Huggins succeeded in winning a landslide, defeating all but one of his Reform Party opponents. Electoral system No changes were made to the franchise, the procedure of elections, or electoral boundaries since the previous election. Political parties The Reform Party was believed by many in Rhodesia to be a left-wing party but Huggins had presented a cautiously conservative Cabinet after winning power in 1933. In particular, Finance Minister Jacob Smit was a strong believer in conventional economics and opponent of Keynesianism. The course of government led eventually to a confrontration in August 1934 with the left wing of the party over reform to the Rhodesian railways. Huggins decided to approach Sir Percy Fynn, leader of the Rhodesian Party, who pledged support for a National Government under Huggins. However, the Acting Governor refused a dissolution on the grounds that the Assembly had many years left, and the government had not been defeated. Huggins persuaded the majority of the Executive of the Reform Party to suspend the party's constitution to allow a National Government on 17 September, and then formed the United Party with Fynn, asking a second time for a dissolution on the basis of a changed party alignment. This time the Acting Governor acceded. Results United Party 14813 24 New Rhodesia Labour Party 6092 5 0 Reform Party 2237 1 –15 0 25879 Willson By constituency Lab – Rhodesia Labour Party Ref – Reform Party UP – United Party ConstituencyElectorate and turnoutCandidatePartyVotesBULAWAYO CENTRALTwo members2,018 (61.4%)†James CowdenUP683†Donald MacIntyreLab654Arthur James ButlerUP604Edward Jonathan DaviesLab536BULAWAYO NORTHTwo members1,989 (65.1%)†John Banks BradyUP967†Allan Ross WelshUP910David BennieLab421Frederick MartinLab291BULAWAYO SOUTH1,257 (70.6%)†Harry Herbert DaviesLab458Hugh BeadleUP430CHARTER623†Ernest Lucas GuestUPunopposedEASTERN886†John Louis MartinUPunopposedGATOOMA842 (77.3%)†William Sydney SeniorUP366Thomas Alfred KimbleLab285GWANDA677 (70.2%)†Sir Hugh Grenville WilliamsRef257Herbert Hildeyard PhillipsUP218GWELO1,048 (63.2%)†Frank Delano ThompsonUP377Albert HillLab285HARTLEY571 (79.5%)James Joseph ConwayUP256Arthur Bertram Shepherd-CrossRef117Christopher HoldernessLab81INSIZA644 (69.9%)Robert Clarkson TredgoldUP273Leo George RobinsonLab110Joseph HusseyRef67INYATI756 (67.7%)Frank Ernest HarrisUP334John BazeleyLab178LOMAGUNDI818 (68.7%)†Lewis Aloys MacDonald HastingsUP365Frank SmithRef197MARANDELLAS812 (58.6%)Alfred William Vincent CrawleyUP251†Reginald Herbert Bruce DicksonRef225MATOPO966 (66.9%)†Robert Alexander FletcherUP412Jonah William WhiteLab234MAZOE891 (64.8%)†Edward Walter Lionel NoaksUP467Alexander Macintyre HutchinsonRef110QUE QUE793 (71.6%)†Charles Walter LeppingtonUP290Edward Empson WebbLab243John William WatkinsonRef35RAYLTON1,243 (70.7%)†Lawrence John Walter KellerLab440William Hives EastwoodUP439SALISBURY CENTRALTwo members2,257 (66.6%)†Jacob Hendrik SmitUP1,125Robert Thomson AndersonUP848James Kerr TaylorLab335Roger Edward DownesLab315Charles OlleyRef245†Neil Housman WilsonRef204SALISBURY DISTRICT966 (76.4%)†Godfrey HugginsUP519† Thomas NangleRef219SALISBURY NORTHTwo members2,016 (69.7%)Vernon Arthur LewisUP1,208†Percival Donald Leslie FynnUP1,198William Lane MitchellRef233William MartinLab172SALISBURY SOUTH1,240 (71.5%)†George Henry WalkerLab435Alexander Daniel KirsteinUP350Mrs. Otilia LiebermannRef101SELUKWE818 (68.7%)†Robert Dunipace GilchristUP416Ernest Edward Fitzroy BlackwellRef146UMTALI NORTH864 (66.9%)†Donald Murray SomervilleUP429Albert HolmanLab149UMTALI SOUTH761 (75.7%)†Jonathan Hunter MalcolmLab329Edgar Cuthbert Fremantle WhiteheadUP247VICTORIA943 (76.6%)†William Alexander Eustace WintertonUP641John DavidsonRef81WANKIE689 (57.9%)†Alexander Robert ThomsonUP258William McDonaldLab141 Byelections Hartley James Joseph Conway died on 10 May 1935, leading to a byelection on 4 July 1935. ConstituencyCandidatePartyVotesHARTLEYRoger Edward DownesRef202Charles Malcolm DavenportUP146Thomas Alfred KimbleLab79 Selukwe Robert Dunipace Gilchrist resigned on 30 June 1935, leading to a byelection on 28 August 1935. ConstituencyCandidatePartyVotesSELUKWEMax DanzigerUP353Henry Frederick EdensorRef182Ernest MillingtonInd UP117 Umtali South Following his death, there was a byelection to replace Jonathan Hunter Malcolm on 15 September 1936. ConstituencyElectorate and turnoutCandidatePartyVotesUMTALI SOUTH800 (62.0%)James Brown ListerLab244Edgar Cuthbert Fremantle WhiteheadUP153William Arthur RailRef99 Salisbury North Following his resignation on 31 July 1936, there was a byelection to replace Vernon Arthur Lewis on 21 September 1936. ConstituencyElectorate and turnoutCandidatePartyVotesSALISBURY NORTH2,035 (54.9%)Harry BertinUP595John Richard Dendy YoungRef522 Eastern John Louis Martin died on 28 May 1938 and a byelection to replace him was held on 15 August 1938. ConstituencyElectorate and turnoutCandidatePartyVotesEASTERN751 (81.4%)Jacobus Petrus De KockUP222Douglas AbrahamsonUNP160Reginald Herbert Bruce DicksonRef150Roelof Hendrik VenterLab79 Hartley Following his death, there was a byelection to replace Roger Edward Downes on 30 August 1938. ConstituencyElectorate and turnoutCandidatePartyVotesHARTLEY584 (76.7%)Henry Hamilton BeamishInd144Thomas James GoldingRP125Leslie Manfred Noel HodsonUP118Thomas George GibsonRef61 References Source Book of Parliamentary Elections and Referenda in Southern Rhodesia 1898–1962 ed. by F.M.G. Willson (Department of Government, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Salisbury 1963) Holders of Administrative and Ministerial Office 1894–1964 by F.M.G. Willson and G.C. Passmore, assisted by Margaret T. Mitchell (Source Book No. 3, Department of Government, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Salisbury 1966) Category:Parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe Southern Rhodesia General Southern Rhodesia Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Southern Rhodesia