Fulham East by-election, 1933

The Fulham East by-election, in Fulham, on 25 October 1933 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan died. The election was surprisingly won by John Charles Wilmot of Labour.

The seat itself is wrongly regarded as a 'safe' Conservative seat due to it returning a Conservative at most previous elections. However, it was marginal in most of those occasions except the remarkable circumstances of 1931 and Labour's electoral destruction.

The election was seen as a test of the developing mood of Pacifism in the country at the time, so much so that it became known as the 'Peace by-election'. The heavy defeat for the National Government candidate, a strong supporter of rearmament, helped, along with the Peace Ballot of 1935, to bring about a rethink in the government's agenda.

Results

Fulham by-election, 1933

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	John Charles Wilmot	17,790	57.9	+31.8
	Conservative	William Waldron	12,950	42.1	-26.6
Majority			4,840
Turnout			30,740
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1931: Fulham East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan	23,438	68.7
	Labour	Sir H J Maynard	8,917	26.1
	Liberal	J H Greenwood	1,788	5.2
Majority			14,521	42.6
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

• Dr Chris Cook; John Ramsden (5 November 2013). By-Elections In British Politics. Routledge. pp. 104–. ISBN 978-1-134-22542-2.