In the event both parties were officially bound by the wartime electoral truce to publicly support the Conservative candidate ( see Churchill war ministry ) and did so.
12.
Former Liberal MP, Richard Acland had formed the Common Wealth Party in 1942 expressly to fight by-elections in opposition to the all-party electoral truce.
13.
During the war the RCP opposed the electoral truce which guaranteed that where parliamentary seats fell vacant they would automatically be filled by another member of the incumbent party.
14.
During World War II, she was a member of Radical Action, which called for a more radical political stance and for the party to withdraw from the war-time electoral truce.
15.
House stood for the John Wilson in the Mid Durham by-election, 1915, but they ultimately chose not to stand him, due to the electoral truce during the First World War.
16.
The chairman of the Liberal Action Group, which opposed the electoral truce, was 30-year-old Belgian first wife Christiane Coussaert whom he had married in 1928 was killed by German bombs.
17.
Unlike the Independent Liberal candidates at Chippenham by-election, 1943 and Darwen by-election, 1943, Ashby attracted plenty of outside help, firstly from large numbers of Liberals who were growing tired of the electoral truce.
18.
At this by-election however he was returned unopposed as a result of an electoral truce called because of an outbreak of smallpox in Middleton and the recommendation of the medical authorities that door to door canvassing and public meetings should be avoided.
19.
At the outbreak of war, the Conservative, Liberal and Labour parties had agreed an electoral truce which meant that when a by-election occurred, the party that was defending the seat would not be opposed by an official candidate from the other two parties.
20.
The election was sparsely contested owing to an electoral truce between Communists fielded candidates in a number of wards-although the Liberals'two candidates was much reduced from recent showings, whilst conversely the Communists contesting of over a quarter of wards was well above their usual three.
