1943_Buckingham_by-election
1943 Buckingham by-election
UK by-election
The 1943 Buckingham by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 4 August 1943 for the House of Commons constituency of Buckingham in Buckinghamshire.[1]
The by-election was held to fill the vacancy caused when the town's 45-year-old[2] Conservative Party Member of Parliament Brigadier John Whiteley was killed in a plane crash in Gibraltar, along with another Conservative member, Victor Cazalet, and General Sikorski, the leader of the Polish government-in-exile.[3] Whiteley had held the seat since a by-election in 1937.[1]