The 1931 Guildford by-election was a parliamentary

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held for the

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Guildford Guildford () is a town in west Surrey, around southwest of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around inhabitants in . The name "Guildf ...

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on 25 August 1931. The seat had become vacant on the death of the

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(MP) Sir Henry Buckingham, who had held the seat since the 1922 general election. The Liberal candidate who had finished a strong second at the 1929 general election,

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, withdrew his candidature, allowing the Conservatives an uncontested return the day after Ramsay MacDonald formed his National Government. The Conservative candidate, Charles Rhys, had previously been MP for

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from 1923 general election to 1929 general election, and held the Guildford seat until he stood down at the 1935 general election

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