1943

The Hartlepools The Hartlepools was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. The constituency became Hartlepool in 1974. The seat's name reflected the representation of both old Hartlepool and West Hartlepool. Hist ...

by-election was held on 1 June 1943. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP,

William George Howard Gritten William George Howard Gritten FRGS''Who was who: a companion to Who's who: containing the biographies of those who died during the period, Volume 2'', Publisher: A. & C. Black, 1967.page 475 (7 February 1870 – 5 April 1943), also known as W. G. ...

. It was won by the Conservative candidate

Thomas George Greenwell Colonel Thomas George Greenwell, TD, DL (18 December 1894 – 15 November 1967) was a British politician. He was the National Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for The Hartlepools and the managing director of the ship-repair yard, T. W. Gr ...

, who was not opposed by a Liberal or a Labour candidate due to the

war time electoral truce 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 ...

where the main parties pledged not to oppose each other's candidates until the end of the

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