1930 Bromley by-election
The 1930 Bromley by-election was a
.Vacancy
The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), the Honourable Cuthbert James, died on 21 July 1930, aged 58. He had held the seat since winning a by-election in December 1919.
Electoral history
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Cuthbert James | 25,449 | 47.2 | -6.5 | |
Liberal | Wilfred Gurney Fordham | 18,372 | 34.1 | +3.4 | |
Labour | Albert Edwin Ashworth | 10,105 | 18.7 | +3.1 | |
Majority | 6,077 | 13.1 | -9.9 | ||
Turnout | 53,926 | 73.1 | -5.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Candidates
The Conservative candidate was
The Liberal Party ran 27 year-old Wilfred Gurney Fordham of Mill Vale, Bromley.[1] Fordham was a barrister, called by the Inner Temple in 1929.[2] He was educated at St George's School, Harpenden, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He had been the Liberal candidate here at the 1929 general election.[3]
The Labour candidate was Albert Edwin Ashworth, who had also stood in 1929 and had come last of three.
The fourth candidate,
The Empire Crusade and their newspapers had been pressing the leader of the Conservative Party,
Result
On a much-reduced turnout, Campbell held the seat for the Conservatives with a majority of 1,606 votes. Redwood came third with 24.1% of the votes, a setback for the Empire Crusade which also failed to win the
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward Campbell | 12,782 | 32.4 | -14.8 | |
Liberal | Wilfred Gurney Fordham | 11,176 | 28.4 | -5.7 | |
United Empire Party
|
V C Redwood | 9,483 | 24.1 | New | |
Labour | Albert Edwin Ashworth | 5,942 | 15.1 | -3.6 | |
Majority | 1,606 | 4.0 | -9.1 | ||
Turnout | 39,383 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Aftermath
Following the formation of the National Government, the Liberals chose not to run a candidate at the 1931 general election, Campbell would hold the seat with a majority over Labour of over 37,000 (67%). The United Empire Party by this time had become defunct. Campbell would serve until his death in office in 1945. Fordham did not contest another parliamentary election for 29 years when he ran as the Labour Party candidate at Wycombe[4]
See also
- Bromley (UK Parliament constituency)
- Bromley
- List of United Kingdom by-elections
References
- ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ISBN 0-300-03961-1.)
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