1938 Dartford by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2020 August 2019 1938 Dartford by-election parliamentary United Kingdom Constituency of Dartford no 1935 United Kingdom general election 1935 1945 United Kingdom general election 1945 7 November 1938 Jennie Adamson x160px Labour Party (UK) 46,514 52.4% Godfrey Mitchell Con Conservative Party (UK) 42,276 47.6% MP Frank Clarke Conservative Party (UK) Jennie Adamson Labour Party (UK) The 1938 Dartford by-election was held on 7 November 1938. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Frank Edward Clarke. It was won by the Labour candidate Jennie Adamson.May 2021 Adamson afterwards stated that she won, because the voters "were ashamed of Mr. Chamberlain's betrayal of Czechoslovakia and of democracy."LABOUR GAINS https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15405528/dartford_byelection_1938_won_by/ The Sydney Morning Herald 9 November 1938 17 Newspapers.com 2 December 2017 This was in reference to the Munich Pact, in which the United Kingdom under Prime Minister Chamberlain, accepted Nazi Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.Chamberlain Neville Mussolini Benito Hitler Adolf Daladier Edouard Neville Chamberlain Benito Mussolini Adolf Hitler Edouard Daladier Munich Pact Munich Agreement 1938 Dartford by-election, 1938 Craig F. W. S. F. W. S. Craig British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 1969 3rd 1983 Parliamentary Research Services Chichester 0-900178-06-X 383 Labour Party (UK) Jennie Adamson 46,514 52.4 Conservative Party (UK) Godfrey Mitchell 42,276 47.6 4,238 4.8 N/A 88,790 68.0 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) References Category:1938 in England Category:Borough of Dartford Dartford Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Kent constituencies Category:1930s in Kent Category:November 1938 in the United Kingdom