Swansea East by-election, 1940

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The Swansea East by-election, 1940 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Swansea East on 8 May 1933. The seat had become vacant on the resignation from the House of Commons of the Labour Member of Parliament David Williams, who had held the seat since the 1922 general election.

During World War II, the major parties had agreed not to contest by-elections when vacancies arose in seats held by the other parties, so the Labour candidate, David Mort, was returned unopposed. He represented the constituency until his death in 1963, triggering another by-election.

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1936	January: Combined Scottish Universities • February: Ross and Cromarty • March: Dunbartonshire • Llanelli • May: Peckham • June: Lewes • July: Derby • Balham and Tooting • East Grinstead • October: Birmingham Erdington • November: Clay Cross • Preston • Greenock

1937	February: St Pancras North • Manchester Gorton • Oxford University • Richmond-upon-Thames • March: Combined English Universities • Tonbridge • Farnham • April: Stalybridge and Hyde • Wandsworth Central • Birmingham West • May: York • June: Glasgow Hillhead • Buckingham • Plymouth Drake • Cheltenham • Hemel Hempstead • Holland with Boston • Bewdley • Ilford • St Ives • July: Kingston-upon-Thames • Chertsey • North Dorset • September: Glasgow Springburn • October: Islington North • November: Hastings

1938	January: Farnworth • February: Pontypridd • Ipswich • Combined Scottish Universities • April: City of London • Fulham West • May: Lichfield • Aylesbury • June: West Derbyshire • Stafford • Barnsley • July: Willesden East • October: Oxford • November: Dartford • Walsall • Bridgwater • Doncaster • Lewisham West • Fylde • December: Kinross-shire and Perthshire

1939	January: East Norfolk • February: Holderness • Ripon • March: Batley and Morley • Kincardineshire and West Aberdeenshire • April: South Ayrshire • May: Down • Sheffield Hallam • Westminster Abbey • Birmingham Aston • Southwark North • Kennington • July: Caerphilly • Portsmouth South • North Cornwall • Hythe • Monmouth • Colne Valley • August: Brecon and Radnor • October: Fareham • High Peak • Clackmannanshire and East Stirlingshire • Ormskirk • Ashton-under-Lyne • November: Macclesfield • December: Streatham • Manchester Stretford • Wells

1940	February: Southampton • City of London • Swansea East • Belfast East • Southwark Central • Silvertown • Cambridge University • March: Kettering • City of Chester • Leeds North East • April: Argyll • Lonsdale • Battersea North • Glasgow Pollok • May: Brighton • East Renfrewshire • June: Spen Valley • Middleton and Prestwich • Newcastle North • Newcastle West • Bow and Bromley • Croydon North • Wandsworth Central • Bournemouth • July: Montrose Burghs • Nottingham Central • Rochdale • Wansbeck • August: Middlesbrough West • Mitcham • Heywood and Radcliffe • September: Bolton • Manchester Exchange • Preston • November: Queen's University Belfast • Aldershot • Southampton • December: Northampton • Birmingham Erdington

1941	February: Doncaster • South Dorset • Petersfield • Dunbartonshire • March: Hitchin • Bodmin • Carmarthen • April: Great Yarmouth • West Bromwich • Mansfield • May: King's Norton • Hornsey • June: West Dorset • July: Greenock • Edinburgh West • Dudley • Pontefract • August: Berwick-upon-Tweed • September: Scarborough and Whitby • The Wrekin • October: Lancaster • November: Brighton • Hampstead • December: Harrow • Edinburgh Central

1942	February: North East Derbyshire • Keighley • March: Nuneaton • Manchester Gorton • Newcastle-under-Lyme • Wigan • Grantham • April: Tavistock • Cardiff East • Glasgow Cathcart • Wallasey • Rugby • May: Putney • Chichester • June: Llandaff and Barry • Maldon • Windsor • July: Salisbury • Spennymoor • August: Rothwell • Whitechapel and St George's • Poplar • Sheffield Park • October: Manchester Clayton • Ince

1943	January: Hamilton • University of Wales • February: Belfast West • Ashford • Antrim • Midlothian and Peeblesshire • King's Lynn • Portsmouth North • Bristol Central • Watford • April: Buckingham • Eddisbury • Daventry • June: The Hartlepools • Newark • Birmingham Aston • July: Burton-on-Trent • August: Chippenham • October: St Albans • Peterborough • November: Woolwich West • December: Consett • Darwen • Acton

1944	January: Skipton • February: Brighton • West Derbyshire • Kirkcaldy Burghs • Sheffield Attercliffe • Bury St Edmunds • March: Camberwell North • April: Clay Cross • July: Manchester Rusholme • September: Bilston • October: Chelsea • Berwick-upon-Tweed

1945	April: Motherwell • Combined Scottish Universities • Chelmsford • Caernarvon Boroughs • May: Middlesbrough West • Neath • Newport

Lists of UK by-elections: 1885–1900 • 1900–1918 • 1918–1931 • 1931–1950 • 1950–1979 • 1979–present