1927 Westbury by-election

The Unionist MP, Walter William Shaw died on 10 May 1927 at the age of 58.They settled on 34-year-old Harcourt Johnstone, a former Liberal MP for Willesden East who had been defeated at the last General Election.Johnstone first tried to re-enter parliament at the 1925 Eastbourne by-election but finished second in this safe Unionist seat.The Labour candidate was George Ward, who had contested the seat at the previous three elections, never polling more than a fifth of the vote.All three candidates again faced each other at the following General Election, with a similar result; Johnstone was eventually to return to the house in 1931 as Liberal MP for South Shields.

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