The by-election was held due to the elevation to the peerage of the incumbent Conservative MP, Arthur Samuel.
[1] Peter Pain, a recently qualified barrister, contested the election for the Labour Party.
Earlier in the decade, he had visited a Hitler Youth camp, and this experience convinced him that a war was inevitable, and that he should oppose Nazism by becoming a socialist.
[3] The election was won by the Conservative candidate Godfrey Nicholson.
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