The 1933 East Fife by-election was held on Thursday, 2 February 1933. The by-election was held due to the death of the sitting National Liberal MP, Sir

James Duncan Millar Sir James Duncan Millar (5 August 1871 – 10 December 1932) was a Scottish barrister and Liberal, later National Liberal politician. Family and education James Duncan Millar was the son of John Millar, a medical doctor from Edinburgh. He had ...

. It was won by the National Liberal candidate James Henderson Stewart.

Candidates

27 year-old David Edwin Keir stood as an Independent Liberal candidate. Keir had stood for the Liberals at the

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and also contested the same seat at the 1929 general election. He was the

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candidate for Roxburgh and Selkirk at the 1931 general election, and was the son of the Rev. T. Keir of Dumfries, and was educated at

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and the

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. He was a journalist.

Result

Anderson, running under the Agricultural Party, attracted many of his votes from Unionists who regretted not being able to field a candidate of their own due to the political pact with the National Liberals. National Library of Scotland,

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. Acc. 10090, Papers of Dr Robert Douglas McIntyre, MB ChB, DPH, Duniv, JP. File 15: Correspondence and papers of or concerning Douglas Young. 11 December 1947 letter from Young to McIntyre. Accessed 16 July 2015.

References

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