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Election Of 1940
The following elections occurred in the year 1940. Africa * 1940 South-West African legislative election Asia * 1940 Philippine special election Europe * 1940 Moldavian parliamentary election * 1940 Swedish general election United Kingdom * 1940 Battersea North by-election * 1940 Birmingham Edgbaston by-election * 1940 Bow and Bromley by-election * 1940 City of London by-election * 1940 Croydon North by-election * 1940 Kettering by-election * 1940 Leeds North East by-election * 1940 Middlesbrough West by-election * 1940 Middleton and Prestwich by-election * 1940 Newcastle upon Tyne North by-election * 1940 Nottingham Central by-election * 1940 Preston by-election * 1940 East Renfrewshire by-election * 1940 Rochdale by-election * 1940 Spen Valley by-election * 1940 Swansea East by-election * 1940 Wansbeck by-election North America * 1940 Mexican general election * 1940 Panamanian general election Canada * 1940 Canadian federal election * 1940 Alberta general election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 South-West African Legislative Election
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus and Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar become Roman Consuls. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 100 day ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 Rochdale By-election
The 1940 Rochdale by-election was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Rochdale in Lancashire on 20 July 1940. Vacancy The seat had become vacant when the Labour Member of Parliament William Kelly, had resigned his seat in Parliament by the procedural device of accepting the post of Steward of the Manor of Northstead, a notional 'office of profit under the crown'. Kelly had been Rochdale's MP since winning the seat from the Conservatives at the 1935 general election. Candidates The Labour Party candidate was Dr Hyacinth Morgan, a doctor born in the West Indies to Irish parents, who had studied medicine in Glasgow. After three unsuccessful attempts, he won the Camberwell North West seat at the 1929 general election, but lost it at the 1931 election. This was his first candidacy since his defeat. During the Second World War the political parties in the Coalition Government had agreed not to contest by-elections when a vacancy arose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 Louisiana Gubernatorial Election
The 1940 Louisiana gubernatorial election was held in two rounds on January 16 and February 20, 1940. Like most Southern states between the Reconstruction Era and the Civil Rights Movement, Louisiana's Republican Party was virtually nonexistent in terms of electoral support. This meant that the two Democratic Party primaries held on these dates were the real contest over who would be governor. The election resulted in the narrow defeat of Earl K. Long and the election of Sam H. Jones as governor of Louisiana on a reform platform. Candidates *Incumbent governor Earl K. Long had succeeded to the office in 1939 after the resignation of governor Richard W. Leche and was running for a full term. He was endorsed by the Louisiana Democratic Organization, which consisted of the machine created by his brother Huey Long as well as the powerful New Orleans Regular Democratic Organization. * Lake Charles attorney Sam H. Jones was recruited as a candidate by the anti-Long forces, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 United States Presidential Election
The 1940 United States presidential election was the 39th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1940. Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican businessman Wendell Willkie to be reelected for an unprecedented third term in office. It was also the fourth presidential election, and the first since 1920, in which both major party candidates were registered in the same home state, with the others being in 1860, 1904, 1944 and 2016. The election was contested in the shadow of World War II in Europe, as the United States was emerging from the Great Depression. Roosevelt did not want to campaign for a third term initially, but was driven by worsening conditions in Europe. He and his allies sought to defuse challenges from other party leaders such as James Farley and Vice President John Nance Garner. The 1940 Democratic National Convention re-nominated Roosevelt on the first ballot, while Garner was replaced on the tick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 Yukon General Election
The 1940 Yukon general election was held on 25 November 1940 to elect the three members of the Yukon Territorial Council.Steven Smyth, ''The Yukon's Constitutional Foundations: Volume One, The Yukon Chronology (1897-1999)''. Clairedge Press, 1999. Yukon Territorial Council The council was non-partisan, and had merely an advisory role to the federally appointed Commissioner. Members * Dawson - Andrew Taddie *Mayo - Richard Lee *Whitehorse - Willard "Deacon" Phelps References 1940 1940 elections in Canada Election An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ... November 1940 events {{Canada-election-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 Toronto Municipal Election
Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1940. Incumbent Ralph Day was re-elected mayor. The election saw little change with all incumbent councillors and Board of Control members being reelected. Toronto mayor Day was challenged for a second time by lawyer Lewis Duncan. ;Results :Ralph Day - 61,480 :Lewis Duncan - 38,011 Board of Control Two aldermen attempted to win seats on the Board of Control, David A. Balfour and communist Stewart Smith. Neither were successful as all four incumbents were reelected. ;Results :Frederick J. Conboy (incumbent) - 78,672 :Douglas McNish (incumbent) - 68,774 : Fred Hamilton (incumbent) - 60,124 :William J. Wadsworth (incumbent) - 55,756 :David A. Balfour - 43,261 : Stewart Smith - 19,641 :Robert Harding - 6,548 City council ;Ward 1 ( Riverdale) :Gordon Millen (incumbent) - 8,901 : Frank M. Johnston (incumbent) - 8,152 :Charles Minett - 2,161 :Harry Bell - 1,717 :William Richards - 1,024 ;Ward 2 ( Cabbagetown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 Ottawa Municipal Election
The city of Ottawa, Canada held municipal elections on December 2, 1940. Mayor of Ottawa Ottawa Board of Control (4 elected) Ottawa City Council The Ottawa City Council (french: Conseil municipal d'Ottawa) is the governing body of the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is composed of 24 city councillors and the mayor. The mayor is elected at large, while each councillor represents war ... (2 elected from each ward) References *''Ottawa Citizen, December 3, 1940'' {{Ottawa elections Municipal elections in Ottawa 1940 elections in Canada 1940s in Ottawa 1940 in Ontario December 1940 events ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 Edmonton Municipal Election
The 1940 municipal election was held November 13, 1940 to elect a mayor and seven aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council. Elections for school trustees were not held, as candidates for both the public and separate boards were acclaimed. There were ten aldermen on city council, but three of the positions were already filled: George Campbell (SS), Edward Brown, and Dan Knott were all elected to two-year terms in 1939 and were still in office. Frederick Casselman and Douglas Grout (SS) had also been elected to two-year terms in 1939, but had resigned; accordingly, Charles Gariepy and Blair Paterson (SS) were elected to one-year terms. There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled: M Downey (SS), Bruce Smith, R L Sutherland, and Albert Ottewell (SS) had been elected to two-year terms in 1939 and were still in office. The same was true of the separate board, where Romeo Bouchard, Hugh Currie, Robert Tighe, and William Wilde (S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 Alberta General Election
The 1940 Alberta general election was held on March 21, 1940, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Despite its failure to implement its key policy, providing prosperity certificates to all Albertans, the Social Credit Party of Premier William Aberhart won a second term in government. Nevertheless, it lost a considerable number of seats that it had gained in the 1935 landslide. This provincial election, like the previous three, saw district-level proportional representation (Single transferable voting) used to elect the MLAs of Edmonton and Calgary. City-wide districts were used to elect multiple MLAs in the cities. All the other MLAs were elected in single-member districts through Instant-runoff voting. Unity Movement The Conservative and Liberal parties as well as the remains of the United Farmers, recognizing the widespread popularity of the Social Credit party, ran joint candidates as independents in what was called the "Independent Movement" or the "U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 Canadian Federal Election
The 1940 Canadian federal election was held March 26, 1940, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 19th Parliament of Canada. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Party was re-elected to their second consecutive majority government. The election was overshadowed by the Second World War, which caused many Canadians to rally around the government. In response to this, the Conservative Party of Robert Manion ran on a platform advocating the creation of an all-party national unity government and ran under the name " National Government" in this election. Though Manion was personally opposed to conscription, the Liberals faced intense pressure in Quebec on the question and promised not to institute the measure. This promise was to haunt the Liberals as they faced increasing pressure from the military and especially from English Canada to bring in the measure. To release him from his September 1939 promise, King called a plebiscite in 1942 on the que ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 Panamanian General Election
General elections were held in Panama on 11 May 1940, electing both a new President of the Republic and a new National Assembly. Arnulfo Arias' ties to the incumbent administration and, consequently, to the National Police gave him the advantage over his opponent. Moreover his temporary electoral coalition of liberal parties augmented his support among members of the electoral board. Shortly before polling day Ricardo J. Alfaro (the opposition coalition candidate) fled into the Zone for sanctuary, and Arnulfo Arias (the candidate of the National Revolutionary Party) became president by the familiar walkover. Arnulfo Arias pieced together a political coalition, including some oligarchs with fascistic tendencies and the growing, nationalistic middle class. He swept into power by a vote of 107,750 to 3,022. Arnulfo Arias was elected on the basis of a nationalist program which rested on hostility to all foreigners in general and to the United States and the West Indian and Chin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 Mexican General Election
General elections were held in Mexico on 7 July 1940.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p453 The presidential elections were won by Manuel Ávila Camacho, who received 94% of the vote. In the Chamber of Deputies election, the Party of the Mexican Revolution (''Partido de la Revolución Mexicana'', PRM) won all but one of the 173 seats. The campaign was very intense, with clashes between Camacho's and Almazán's supporters becoming common throughout the electoral process. The elections were the most violent in Mexican history, with clashes between Camacho's and Almazán's supporters on election day resulting in at least 47 deaths and 400 people being injured. This was the only presidential election in which the PRM participated under that name. It had been the National Revolutionary Party (''Partido Nacional Revolucionario'', PNR) from 1929 to 1938, being renamed Party of the Mexican Revolution (''Partido de la Revolución Mexicana'', PR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
