1937 Farnham by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 August 2019 The 1937 Farnham by-election was held on 23 March 1937. The by-election was held due to the elevation to the peerage of the incumbent Conservative MP, Arthur Samuel. It was won by the Conservative candidate Godfrey Nicholson.F June 2021 Peter Pain, a recently qualified barrister, contested the election for the Labour Party. Earlier in the decade, he had visited a Hitler Youth camp, and this experience convinced him that a war was inevitable, and that he should oppose Nazism by becoming a socialist.Church Rex Obituary: Sir Peter Pain The Guardian 27 February 2003 Linton Thorp, who contested the election as an independent conservative, was a former Conservative MP who had left the party believing that some of its policies were too close to socialism. He stood with the support of the pro-Nazi Liberty Restoration League.Michael Stenton and Stephen Lees, Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, vol. 3, p.356 The election was won by the Conservative candidate Godfrey Nicholson. Farnham by-election, 1937 Conservative Party (UK) Godfrey Nicholson 20,580 66.7 -11.8 Labour Party (UK) Peter Pain 7,792 25.3 +3.8 Independent Conservative Linton Thorp 2,327 7.5 New Independent (politics) Edward Miller 154 0.5 New 12,788 41.4 -15.6 30,853 Conservative Party (UK) References Farnham Category:1937 in England Category:20th century in Surrey Category:Farnham Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Surrey constituencies Category:March 1937 in the United Kingdom