1945 Bromley by-election

The Bromley by-election of 1945 was held on 14 November 1945. The byelection was held due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Edward Campbell. It was won by the Conservative candidate Harold Macmillan.[1]

Bromley by-election, 1945[2] Electorate 81,800
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Harold Macmillan	26,367	49.59	+4.68
	Labour	Alexander Bain	20,810	39.14	+5.00
	Liberal	Jaspar Carlisle Sayer	5,990	11.27	-10.50
Majority			5,557	10.45	-0.32
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm
"1945 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 6 February 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2015.

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1945	October: Smethwick Ashton-under-Lyne Edinburgh East Monmouth City of London November: Bromley Bournemouth Kensington South December: Tottenham North
1946	January: Preston February: South Ayrshire Glasgow Cathcart Heywood and Radcliffe Hemsworth March: Combined English Universities June: Ogmore Down July: Bexley Pontypool Battersea North August: Glasgow Bridgeton November: Rotherhithe Paddington North Aberdeen South Combined Scottish Universities December: Aberdare Kilmarnock
1947	February: Normanton May: Jarrow September: Liverpool Edge Hill September: Islington West November: Gravesend Edinburgh East Howdenshire December: Epsom
1948	January: Glasgow Camlachie February: Paisley March: Wigan Armagh Croydon North Brigg April: Southwark Central September: Glasgow Gorbals October: Stirling and Falkirk November: Edmonton Glasgow Hillhead
1949	February: Batley and Morley Hammersmith South March: St Pancras North Sowerby July: Leeds West December: Bradford South
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Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton
Constituencies	Stockton-on-Tees Bromley
Family	Daniel MacMillan (grandfather) Lady Dorothy Macmillan (wife) Maurice Macmillan (son) Lady Caroline Faber (daughter) Julian Amery (son-in-law)
Career	1945 Bromley by-election Macmillan government US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement 1959 United Kingdom general election Wind of Change speech Night of the Long Knives Beeching report Vassall affair Profumo affair Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Cultural depictions	Supermac Never So Good (Play, 2008) The Crown, (TV, 2017)
See also	Birch Grove The Middle Way: A Study of the Problems of Economic and Social Progress in a Free and Democratic Society (1938) 1960 University of Oxford Chancellor election 1963 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours Earl of Stockton Macmillan Publishers St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes

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