1943 Buckingham by-election

UK by-election December 2020 The 1943 Buckingham by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 4 April 1943 for the UK House of Commons constituency of Buckingham in Buckinghamshire. The by-election was held to fill the vacancy caused when the town's 45-year-oldb 6 March 2012 Conservative Party Member of Parliament Brigadier John Whiteley was killed in a plane crash in Gibraltar, along with another Conservative member, Victor Cazalet, and General Sikorski, the leader of the Polish government-in-exile.Obituaries: Br. J. P. Whiteley, M.P. The Times 7 July 1943 7 Whiteley had held the seat since a by-election in 1937.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 296 Candidates The Conservative Party nominated as its candidate, Lionel Berry, the deputy chairman of Kemsley Newspapers Ltd (owner of The Sunday Times and the Daily Record), and eldest son of the company's proprietor, Viscount Kemsley.M.P. for Buckingham 5 August 1943 The Times 2 In accordance with an electoral truce between the parties in the wartime coalition government,Rallings Colin Thrasher Michael British Electoral Facts 2006 Total Politics London 978-1-907278-03-7 157 neither the Liberal nor Labour parties nominated a candidate. Result As the only candidate, Berry was returned unopposed. Buckingham by-election, 1943British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig Conservative Party (UK) Lionel Berry Unopposed N/A N/A Conservative Party (UK) He held the seat for only two years, until his defeat at the 1945 general election. See also Lists of United Kingdom by-elections Buckingham constituency 1937 Buckingham by-election References Category:1943 elections in the United Kingdom Category:1943 in England Category:20th century in Buckinghamshire Category:Unopposed by-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in English constituencies Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Buckinghamshire constituencies Category:Buckingham Category:April 1943 in the United Kingdom