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1940 Elections
The following elections occurred in the year 1940. Africa * 1940 South-West African legislative election Asia * 1940 Philippine special election Europe * 1940 Moldavian parliamentary election * 1940 Swedish general election United Kingdom * 1940 Battersea North by-election * 1940 Birmingham Edgbaston by-election * 1940 Bow and Bromley by-election * 1940 City of London by-election * 1940 Croydon North by-election * 1940 Kettering by-election * 1940 Leeds North East by-election * 1940 Middlesbrough West by-election * 1940 Middleton and Prestwich by-election * 1940 Newcastle upon Tyne North by-election * 1940 Nottingham Central by-election * 1940 Preston by-election * 1940 East Renfrewshire by-election * 1940 Rochdale by-election * 1940 Spen Valley by-election * 1940 Swansea East by-election * 1940 Wansbeck by-election North America * 1940 Mexican general election * 1940 Panamanian general election Canada * 1940 Canadian federal election * 1940 Alberta general election * 1940 Edmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 South-West African Legislative Election
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus and Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar become Roman Consuls. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 100 day ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 Rochdale By-election
The 1940 Rochdale by-election was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Rochdale in Lancashire on 20 July 1940. Vacancy The seat had become vacant when the Labour Member of Parliament William Kelly, had resigned his seat in Parliament by the procedural device of accepting the post of Steward of the Manor of Northstead, a notional 'office of profit under the crown'. Kelly had been Rochdale's MP since winning the seat from the Conservatives at the 1935 general election. Candidates The Labour Party candidate was Dr Hyacinth Morgan, a doctor born in the West Indies to Irish parents, who had studied medicine in Glasgow. After three unsuccessful attempts, he won the Camberwell North West seat at the 1929 general election, but lost it at the 1931 election. This was his first candidacy since his defeat. During the Second World War the political parties in the Coalition Government had agreed not to contest by-elections when a vacancy arose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 Louisiana Gubernatorial Election
The 1940 Louisiana gubernatorial election was held in two rounds on January 16 and February 20, 1940. Like most Southern states between the Reconstruction Era and the Civil Rights Movement, Louisiana's Republican Party was virtually nonexistent in terms of electoral support. This meant that the two Democratic Party primaries held on these dates were the real contest over who would be governor. The election resulted in the narrow defeat of Earl K. Long and the election of Sam H. Jones as governor of Louisiana on a reform platform. Candidates *Incumbent governor Earl K. Long had succeeded to the office in 1939 after the resignation of governor Richard W. Leche and was running for a full term. He was endorsed by the Louisiana Democratic Organization, which consisted of the machine created by his brother Huey Long as well as the powerful New Orleans Regular Democratic Organization. * Lake Charles attorney Sam H. Jones was recruited as a candidate by the anti-Long forces, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 United States Presidential Election
The 1940 United States presidential election was the 39th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1940. Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican businessman Wendell Willkie to be reelected for an unprecedented third term in office. It was also the fourth presidential election, and the first since 1920, in which both major party candidates were registered in the same home state, with the others being in 1860, 1904, 1944 and 2016. The election was contested in the shadow of World War II in Europe, as the United States was emerging from the Great Depression. Roosevelt did not want to campaign for a third term initially, but was driven by worsening conditions in Europe. He and his allies sought to defuse challenges from other party leaders such as James Farley and Vice President John Nance Garner. The 1940 Democratic National Convention re-nominated Roosevelt on the first ballot, while Garner was replaced on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 Yukon General Election
The 1940 Yukon general election was held on 25 November 1940 to elect the three members of the Yukon Territorial Council.Steven Smyth, ''The Yukon's Constitutional Foundations: Volume One, The Yukon Chronology (1897-1999)''. Clairedge Press, 1999. Yukon Territorial Council The council was non-partisan, and had merely an advisory role to the federally appointed Commissioner. Members * Dawson - Andrew Taddie *Mayo - Richard Lee *Whitehorse - Willard "Deacon" Phelps References 1940 1940 elections in Canada Election An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ... November 1940 events {{Canada-election-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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