The 1928 Faversham by-election was a
parliamentary by-election held in January 1928 for the
British House of Commons
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constituency
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of
Faversham
Faversham is a market town in Kent, England, from London and from Canterbury, next to the Swale, a strip of sea separating mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. It is close to the A2, which follows an ancient British t ...
, in Kent.
Previous MP
The Conservative MP,
Sir Granville Wheler died. He had been the MP since re-gaining the seat from the Liberals in
January 1910.
Previous Result
Candidates
Forty-three-year-old
Adam Maitland
Sir Adam Maitland (25 May 1885 – 5 October 1949) Charles Roger Dod, Robert Phipps Dod, ''Dod's parliamentary companion'', Publisher Dod's Parliamentary Companion, ltd., 1943.page 421"Sir Adam Maitland", ''The Times'' (London), Saturday, 8 Octo ...
was selected by the local Conservatives to defend the seat.
Labour changed their candidate when they chose 44-year-old
Dudley Leigh Aman. He had contested Petersfield in 1922, 1923 and Thanet in 1924.
The Liberals selected 54-year-old
John Freeman Dunn who had been Liberal MP for Hemel Hempstead from 1923-24.
E.A. Hailwood, who had contested Southend and Northampton as an Independent Conservative, was standing in his third by-election. His appearance at this by-election resulted in some Conservative party members 'offering violence'.
Result
Aftermath
Maitland held the seat at the 1929 general election, again defeating Aman. At those elections, Dunn unsuccessfully fought Chichester.
References
* ''British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949'', compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1979)
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1928 elections in the United Kingdom
1928 in England
Faversham
Faversham is a market town in Kent, England, from London and from Canterbury, next to the Swale, a strip of sea separating mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. It is close to the A2, which follows an ancient British t ...
Politics of Swale
1920s in Kent