Silvertown by-election, 1940

The Silvertown by-election of 1940 was a wartime by-election.

Silvertown was a safe Labour seat, and none of the major parties stood against the Labour candidate.^[1]

It was one of the last by-elections contested by the British Union of Fascists where they campaigned on a platform calling for an immediate peace with Nazi Germany, a policy which won them only 151 votes.^[2]

By-election, 22 February 1940: Silvertown
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	James Henry Hollins	14,343	92.8	+11.8
	Communist	Harry Pollitt	966	6.2
	British Union of Fascists	Thomas P. Moran	151	1.0
Majority			13,377	86.6
	Labour hold		Swing

References

↑ "Labour Victory At Silvertown", The Times, 24 February 1940, p. 6.
↑ Robert Benewick, Political Violence and Public Order, p. 291-2

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