1933 East Fife by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 August 2019 thumb|right|Henderson-Stewart The 1933 East Fife by-election was held on Thursday, 2 February 1933. The by-election was held due to the death of the sitting Liberal National MP, Sir James Duncan Millar. It was won by the Liberal National candidate James Henderson-Stewart.http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20080607022521/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm 7 June 2008 House of Commons www.leighrayment.com usurped 2018-08-05 Candidates 27 year-old David Edwin Keir stood as an Independent Liberal candidate. Keir had stood for the Liberals at the 1929 Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election and also contested the same seat at the 1929 general election. He was the Liberal candidate for Roxburgh and Selkirk at the 1931 general election, and was the son of the Rev. T. Keir of Dumfries, and was educated at Dumfries Academy and the University of Edinburgh.The Times House of Commons, 1929 He was a journalist.The Times House of Commons, 1931 Result East Fife by-election, 1933Whitaker's Almanack, 1934 Liberal National Party (UK, 1931) James Henderson-Stewart 15,770 52.2 N/A Labour Party (UK) Joseph Westwood 6,635 22.0 New Agricultural Party J. L. Anderson 4,404 14.6 New Independent Liberal David Edwin Keir 2,296 7.6 New National Party of Scotland Eric Linklater 1,083 3.6 New 9,135 30.2 N/A 30,188 65.6 N/A Liberal National Party (UK, 1931) Anderson, running under the Agricultural Party, attracted many of his votes from Unionists who regretted not being able to field a candidate of their own due to the political pact with the Liberal Nationals.National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Acc. 10090, Papers of Dr Robert Douglas McIntyre, MB ChB, DPH, Duniv, JP. File 15: Correspondence and papers of or concerning Douglas Young. 11 December 1947 letter from Young to McIntyre. Accessed 16 July 2015. References Category:1933 elections in the United Kingdom Category:1933 in Scotland Category:1930s elections in Scotland Category:Politics of Fife Fife, East Category:20th century in Fife