1941 Pontefract by-election

UK parliamentary by-election November 2019 July 2021 A 1941 by-election was held on 24 July 1941 for the British House of Commons parliamentary constituency of Pontefract in Yorkshire. The seat had become vacant on the death of the Labour Member of Parliament Adam Hills, who had held the seat since the 1935 general election. The Labour candidate, Percy Barstow, was returned unopposed.https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19410725/166/0006 Pontefract's New M.P. 25 July 1941 Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 1 July 2021 British Newspaper Archive subscription 6 See also Pontefract (UK Parliament constituency) 1919 Pontefract by-election 1962 Pontefract by-election List of United Kingdom by-elections References Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in West Yorkshire constituencies Category:Unopposed by-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in English constituencies Category:1941 in England Category:1941 elections in the United Kingdom Category:Elections in Wakefield Category:Pontefract Category:1940s in Yorkshire Category:July 1941 in the United Kingdom