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1946 Rotherhithe by-election
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UK Parliamentary by-election
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The 1946 Rotherhithe by-election was held on 19 November 1946. The by-election was held after the incumbent Labour MP, Sir Benjamin Smith became the chairman of the West Midlands Coal Board. It was won by the Labour candidate Bob Mellish.May 2021 London County Councillor Edward Martell beat the Conservative candidate, the future Gillingham MP Frederick Burden, into third place, polling more than one-quarter of the vote.
Rotherhithe by-election, 1946The Times, 19 November 1946http://www.by-elections.co.uk/46.html https://web.archive.org/web/20131105224145/http://www.by-elections.co.uk/46.html 1946 By Election Results 2013-11-05 dead 2015-08-12
Labour Party (UK)
Bob Mellish
7,265
65.0
-14.1
Liberal Party (UK)
Edward Martell
2,821
25.3
New
Conservative Party (UK)
Frederick Burden
1,084
9.7
-11.2
4,444
39.7
-18.5
11,170
50.9
-17.2
Labour Party (UK)
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