1940 Silvertown by-election

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 which 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 Hollins 14,343 92.8 +11.8
Communist Harry Pollitt 966 6.2
British Union of Fascists Tommy Moran 151 1.0
Majority 13,377 86.6
Turnout 15,460
Labour hold Swing

References

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