Aldershot by-election in 1940

The election in Aldershot in 1940 was an election for the House of Commons in the constituency on November 26, 1940 Aldershot took place. It had become necessary after the incumbent MP Roundel Palmer was prematurely transferred by royal decree the title of Baron Selborne, which was subordinate to the title of his father Earl of Selborne , and he was appointed to the House of Lords before his father's death in 1942 . The by-election went to Conservative Party candidate Oliver Lyttelton , who ran unopposed.

Individual evidence

^ FWS Craig: British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 . 1st edition. The Macmillan Press, Chichester 1977, ISBN 978-0-333-23048-0 , pp. 363 .

[1] FWS Craig: British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 . 1st edition. The Macmillan Press, Chichester 1977, ISBN 978-0-333-23048-0 , pp. 363 .