1936 Combined Scottish Universities by-election

1936 Combined Scottish Universities by-election

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Constituency of Combined Scottish Universities
Turnout54.8% (Increase 3.6%)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Candidate Ramsay MacDonald Andrew Dewar Gibb David Cleghorn Thomson
Party National Labour SNP Labour
Popular vote 16,393 9,034 3,597
Percentage 56.5% 31.1% 12.4%
Swing N/A Increase16.9% N/A

MP before election

Noel Skelton
Unionist

Elected MP

Ramsay MacDonald
National Labour

The 1936 Combined Scottish Universities by-election was a by-election held from 27 to 31 January 1936 for the Combined Scottish Universities, a university constituency of the British House of Commons.