1933 Clay Cross by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 August 2019 The 1933 Clay Cross by-election was held on 1 September 1933. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Labour MP, Charles Duncan.May 2021 Unusually, the Constituency Labour Party asked for nominations for the vacancy, and published the list: Percy Barstow of the National Union of Railwaymen, former leader of the party Arthur Henderson, Samuel Sales of the Derbyshire Miners' Association, and Ben Smith, former Member of Parliament for Rotherhithe. Henderson was chosen as the party's candidate, and Herbert Drinkwater acted as his election agent.Parliamentary by-elections Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference 1933 41 Henderson easily won the election. This was Henderson's fifth by-election victory, having previously won in Burnley in 1924, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne East in 1923, in Widnes in 1919, and in Barnard Castle in 1903. Clay Cross by-election, 1933 Electorate 44,466 Labour Party (UK) Arthur Henderson 21,931 69.3 +4.7 Conservative Party (UK) John Moores 6,293 19.9 -15.5 Communist Party of Great Britain Harry Pollitt 3,434 10.8 New 15,638 49.4 +20.2 31,658 71.2 -3.4 Labour Party (UK) References Category:1933 elections in the United Kingdom Category:1933 in England Category:1930s in Derbyshire Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Derbyshire constituencies Category:Arthur Henderson