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1940 Silvertown by-election
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UK parliamentary by-election
April 2022
The Silvertown by-election of 1940 was a wartime by-election.
Silvertown was a safe Labour seat, and none of the major parties stood against the Labour candidate."Labour Victory At Silvertown", The Times, 24 February 1940, p. 6.
It was one of the last by-elections contested by the British Union of Fascists which campaigned on a platform calling for an immediate peace with Nazi Germany, a policy which won them only 151 votes.Robert Benewick, Political Violence and Public Order, p. 291-2
By-election, 22 February 1940: Silvertown
Labour Party (UK)
James Hollins
14,343
92.8
+11.8
Communist Party of Great Britain
Harry Pollitt
966
6.2
New
British Union of Fascists
Tommy Moran
151
1.0
New
13,377
86.6
+24.6
15,460
Labour Party (UK)
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Category:1940s in Essex