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MARYLEBONE BY-ELECTION TWO CONSERVATIVES STAND Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 29. The Marylebone by-election, which was necessitated by Sir Rennell Rodd’s resignation, resulted as follows: — Captain A. S. Cunningham Reid (Con.) 11,677 Sir Basil Blackett (Con.) 10,664, [The voting at the General Election was as follows:—Sir Rennell Rodd (Con.) 39,976, Dr E. A. Whitfield (Lab.) 6,147.] CONSERVATIVE SPLIT. LONDON, April 29. The curious contest at Marylebone was due to a local Conservative split. A section of the members of the Marylebone Constitutional Union thought that Captain Reid, who is young and. wealthy, although he had been a member of the House of Commous, had less claim to a safe seat in a national emergency than a man with a long record of public service like Sir Basil Blackett, for whose support a rival organisation was speedily created.
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Evening Star, Issue 21090, 30 April 1932, Page 13
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140A SAFE SEAT Evening Star, Issue 21090, 30 April 1932, Page 13
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