Combined English Universities by-election, 1946

The Combined English Universities by-election, 1946 was a parliamentary by-election held on 18 March 1946 for the British House of Commons constituency of Combined English Universities.

There was no Labour Party candidate, which did not occur again in a Great Britain by-election in the UK until the Haltemprice and Howden by-election, 2008. It was the penultimate election in a university constituency to the British Parliament and the final one to occur in England, with all university constituencies abolished in 1950.

Previous MP

The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Independent Member of Parliament (MP), Eleanor Rathbone, died. She had been the constituency's MP since the 1929 general election.

By-Election 13–18 March 1946: Combined English Universities^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Henry Strauss	5,483	30.0	N/A
	Independent	Mary Stocks	5,124	28.0	N/A
	Independent	Sir Ernest Simon	4,028	22.0	N/A
	Independent Labour	Stanley Wormald	3,414	18.7	N/A
	British People's Party	Gerard Oddie	239	1.3	N/A
Majority			359	2.0	N/A
Turnout			18,288	42.1	-7.9
Registered electors			43,438
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing	N/A

↑ "1946 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2015-08-11.

Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

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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 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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