The 1940

Bolton Bolton (, locally ) is a large town in Greater Manchester in North West England, formerly a part of Lancashire. A former mill town, Bolton has been a production centre for textiles since Flemish people, Flemish weavers settled in the area i ...

by-election was held on 13 September 1940. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP,

John Haslam Sir John Haslam (27 February 1878 – 21 May 1940) was a Conservative Party politician in England. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton Bolton (, locally ) is a large town in Greater Manchester in North West England, formerly ...

. It was won by the Conservative candidate

Edward Cadogan Sir Edward Cecil George Cadogan, KBE, CB (15 November 1880 – 13 September 1962) was a British, Conservative politician. Cadogan was a younger son of the 5th Earl Cadogan and his wife, Beatrix, a daughter of the 2nd Earl Craven. He was e ...

, who was unopposed due to the

War-time electoral pact The war-time electoral pact was an electoral pact established by the member parties of the UK coalition governments in the First World War, and re-established in the Second World War. Under the pact, in the event of a by-election only the party whi ...

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