The 1954

Arundel and Shoreham Arundel and Shoreham was a borough constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the ...

by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to f ...

was held on 9 March 1954. It was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP,

William Cuthbert William Nicolson Cuthbert (24 August 1890 – 7 May 1960) was a Conservative Party politician in England. He was elected at the 1945 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rye, and when that constituency was abolished for the 19 ...

. It was retained by the Conservative candidate,

Henry Kerby Henry Briton Kerby (11 December 1914 – 4 January 1971) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament for Arundel and Shoreham. He won the seat in a 1954 by-election, and served until his death at the age of 56 in Chichester in 1971. For a ti ...

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