1946 Glasgow Bridgeton by-election

The party eventually nominated their Scottish Organising Secretary James Carmichael, a member of Glasgow City Council, for the seat.The Unionist Party had little chance of taking the seat, a strongly working class area, but the possibility of a split left vote could perhaps improve their hopes.The Scottish National Party, with little background in the constituency, stood a candidate in Wendy Wood.Guy Aldred, a well-known local anarcho-communist standing on an abstentionist platform, completed the candidates.Carmichael held the seat in his new party colours until his retirement in 1961, while Wheatley was elected in Edinburgh East the following year.
Independent Labour PartyMember of ParliamentGlasgow BridgetonJames Maxton1922 general electionLabour Partymembers of parliamentJames CarmichaelGlasgow City CouncilJohn WheatleyWorld War IIUnionist Partyworking classScottish National PartyGuy Aldredanarcho-communistabstentionistLiberal Party1930 Bromley by-election1950 general electionEdinburgh EastInd. Labour PartyLabourUnionistWendy WoodUnited Socialist MovementTurnoutWayback MachineBy-elections38th Parliament of the United KingdomSmethwickAshton-under-LyneMonmouthCity of LondonBromleyBournemouthKensington SouthTottenham NorthPrestonSouth AyrshireGlasgow CathcartHeywood and RadcliffeHemsworthCombined English UniversitiesOgmoreBexleyPontypoolBattersea NorthRotherhithePaddington NorthAberdeen SouthCombined Scottish UniversitiesAberdareKilmarnockNormantonJarrowLiverpool Edge HillIslington WestGravesendHowdenshireGlasgow CamlachiePaisleyArmaghCroydon NorthSouthwark CentralGlasgow GorbalsStirling and FalkirkEdmontonGlasgow HillheadBatley and MorleyHammersmith SouthSt Pancras NorthSowerbyLeeds WestBradford South1801–18061806–18181818–18321832–18471847–18571857–18681868–18851885–19001900–19181918–19311931–19501950–19791979–20102010–presentHereditary peersScotlandHouse of Commons of the United KingdomEdinburgh and St Andrews UniversitiesNorth East LanarkshireOrkney and ShetlandEast PerthshireArgyllshireSt Andrews BurghsAyr BurghsButeshireElgin BurghsEast AberdeenshireBanffshireKincardineshireDundeeStirling BurghsMontrose BurghsForfarshireGlasgow CentralEdinburgh SouthHawick BurghsEdinburgh WestDumfries BurghsRoss and CromartyGlasgow TradestonKilmarnock BurghsNorth AyrshireGlasgow St RolloxMidlothianLinlithgowshireWick BurghsSouth LanarkshireLeith BurghsEast FifeWigtownshireBerwickshireInverness-shireWest PerthshireAberdeenshire and Kincardineshire CentralArgyllEdinburgh NorthKirkcaldy BurghsGlasgow PollokInvernessMoray and NairnGlasgow KelvingroveGallowayDunbartonshireEast RenfrewshireAberdeen NorthMidlothian and Peebles NorthernGlasgow ShettlestonRutherglenDumfriesshireGreenockGlasgow SpringburnKinross and Western PerthshireKincardineshire and Western AberdeenshireClackmannanshire and East StirlingshireEdinburgh CentralHamiltonMotherwell