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1934 Southern Rhodesian general election

FieldValue
election_name1934 Southern Rhodesian general election
countrySouthern Rhodesia
typeparliamentary
ongoingno
previous_election1933 Southern Rhodesian general election
previous_year1933
election_date
next_election1939 Southern Rhodesian general election
next_year1939
seats_for_electionAll 30 seats in the Legislative Assembly
majority_seats16
turnout64.6%
image_size130x130px
image1Huggins.jpg
leader1Godfrey Huggins
party1United Rhodesia Party
leaders_seat1Salisbury district
last_election1–
seats124
seat_change1*New*
popular_vote114,813
percentage164.01%
leader2Harry Davies
party2Rhodesia Labour Party
leaders_seat2Bulawayo South
last_election25 seats
seats25
seat_change2
popular_vote26,092
percentage226.32%
party3Reform Party (Southern Rhodesia)
last_election316 seats
seats31
seat_change315
popular_vote32,237
percentage39.67%
map_imageComposition of the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly 1934.svg
map_size200px
map_captionComposition of the Legislative Assembly after the election
titlePrime Minister
before_electionGodfrey Huggins
before_partyUnited Federal Party
after_electionGodfrey Huggins
after_partyUnited Federal Party

General elections were held in Southern Rhodesia on 7 November 1934, fourth elections since the colony of Southern Rhodesia was granted self-government. The elections were called only a year after the previous elections when the Prime Minister, Godfrey Huggins, formed the United Party as a merger of the conservative section of his Reform Party and the former governing Rhodesia Party. Huggins succeeded in winning a landslide, defeating all but one of his Reform Party opponents.

Electoral system

No changes were made to the franchise, the procedure of elections, or electoral boundaries since the previous election.

Political parties

The Reform Party was believed by many in Rhodesia to be a left-wing party but Huggins had presented a cautiously conservative Cabinet after winning power in 1933. In particular, Finance Minister Jacob Smit was a strong believer in conventional economics and opponent of Keynesianism. The course of government led eventually to a confrontration in August 1934 with the left-wing of the party over reform to the Rhodesian railways. Huggins decided to approach Sir Percy Fynn, leader of the Rhodesian Party, who pledged support for a National Government under Huggins.

However, the Acting Governor refused a dissolution on the grounds that the Assembly had many years left, and the government had not been defeated. Huggins persuaded the majority of the Executive of the Reform Party to suspend the party's constitution to allow a National Government on 17 September, and then formed the United Party with Fynn, asking a second time for a dissolution on the basis of a changed party alignment. This time the Acting Governor acceded.

Results

By constituency

  • Lab – Rhodesia Labour Party
  • Ref – Reform Party
  • UP – United Party
Constituency
Electorate and turnoutCandidatePartyVotes
**BULAWAYO CENTRAL**
**Two members**
2,018 (61.4%)†**James Cowden**UP683
†**Donald MacIntyre**Lab654
Arthur James ButlerUP604
Edward Jonathan DaviesLab536
**BULAWAYO NORTH**
**Two members**
1,989 (65.1%)†**John Banks Brady**UP967
†**Allan Ross Welsh**UP910
David BennieLab421
Frederick MartinLab291
**BULAWAYO SOUTH**
1,257 (70.6%)†**Harry Herbert Davies**Lab458
Hugh BeadleUP430
**CHARTER**
623†**Ernest Lucas Guest**UPunopposed
**EASTERN**
886†**John Louis Martin**UPunopposed
**GATOOMA**
842 (77.3%)†**William Sydney Senior**UP366
Thomas Alfred KimbleLab285
**GWANDA**
677 (70.2%)†Sir **Hugh Grenville Williams**Ref257
Herbert Hildeyard PhillipsUP218
**GWELO**
1,048 (63.2%)†**Frank Delano Thompson**UP377
Albert HillLab285
**HARTLEY**
571 (79.5%)**James Joseph Conway**UP256
Arthur Bertram Shepherd-CrossRef117
Christopher HoldernessLab81
**INSIZA**
644 (69.9%)**Robert Clarkson Tredgold**UP273
Leo George RobinsonLab110
Joseph HusseyRef67
**INYATI**
756 (67.7%)**Frank Ernest Harris**UP334
John BazeleyLab178
**LOMAGUNDI**
818 (68.7%)†**Lewis Aloys MacDonald Hastings**UP365
Frank SmithRef197
**MARANDELLAS**
812 (58.6%)**Alfred William Vincent Crawley**UP251
†Reginald Herbert Bruce DicksonRef225
**MATOPO**
966 (66.9%)†**Robert Alexander Fletcher**UP412
Jonah William WhiteLab234
**MAZOE**
891 (64.8%)†**Edward Walter Lionel Noaks**UP467
Alexander Macintyre HutchinsonRef110
**QUE QUE**
793 (71.6%)†**Charles Walter Leppington**UP290
Edward Empson WebbLab243
John William WatkinsonRef35
**RAYLTON**
1,243 (70.7%)†**Lawrence John Walter Keller**Lab440
William Hives EastwoodUP439
**SALISBURY CENTRAL**
**Two members**
2,257 (66.6%)†**Jacob Hendrik Smit**UP1,125
**Robert Thomson Anderson**UP848
James Kerr TaylorLab335
Roger Edward DownesLab315
Charles OlleyRef245
†Neil Housman WilsonRef204
**SALISBURY DISTRICT**
966 (76.4%)†**Godfrey Huggins**UP519
† Thomas NangleRef219
**SALISBURY NORTH**
**Two members**
2,016 (69.7%)**Vernon Arthur Lewis**UP1,208
†**Percival Donald Leslie Fynn**UP1,198
William Lane MitchellRef233
William MartinLab172
**SALISBURY SOUTH**
1,240 (71.5%)†**George Henry Walker**Lab435
Alexander Daniel KirsteinUP350
Mrs. Otilia LiebermannRef101
**SELUKWE**
818 (68.7%)†**Robert Dunipace Gilchrist**UP416
Ernest Edward Fitzroy BlackwellRef146
**UMTALI NORTH**
864 (66.9%)†**Donald Murray Somerville**UP429
Albert HolmanLab149
**UMTALI SOUTH**
761 (75.7%)†**Jonathan Hunter Malcolm**Lab329
Edgar Cuthbert Fremantle WhiteheadUP247
**VICTORIA**
943 (76.6%)†**William Alexander Eustace Winterton**UP641
John DavidsonRef81
**WANKIE**
689 (57.9%)†**Alexander Robert Thomson**UP258
William McDonaldLab141

Byelections

Hartley

James Joseph Conway died on 10 May 1935, leading to a byelection on 4 July 1935.

ConstituencyCandidatePartyVotes
**HARTLEY****Roger Edward Downes**Ref202
Charles Malcolm DavenportUP146
Thomas Alfred KimbleLab79

Selukwe

Robert Dunipace Gilchrist resigned on 30 June 1935, leading to a byelection on 28 August 1935.

ConstituencyCandidatePartyVotes
**SELUKWE****Max Danziger**UP353
Henry Frederick EdensorRef182
Ernest MillingtonInd UP117

Umtali South

Following his death, there was a byelection to replace Jonathan Hunter Malcolm on 15 September 1936.

Constituency
Electorate and turnoutCandidatePartyVotes
**UMTALI SOUTH**
800 (62.0%)**James Brown Lister**Lab244
Edgar Cuthbert Fremantle WhiteheadUP153
William Arthur RailRef99

Salisbury North

Following his resignation on 31 July 1936, there was a byelection to replace Vernon Arthur Lewis on 21 September 1936.

Constituency
Electorate and turnoutCandidatePartyVotes
**SALISBURY NORTH**
2,035 (54.9%)**Harry Bertin**UP595
John Richard Dendy YoungRef522

Eastern

John Louis Martin died on 28 May 1938 and a byelection to replace him was held on 15 August 1938.

Constituency
Electorate and turnoutCandidatePartyVotes
**EASTERN**
751 (81.4%)**Jacobus Petrus De Kock**UP222
Douglas AbrahamsonUNP160
Reginald Herbert Bruce DicksonRef150
Roelof Hendrik VenterLab79

Hartley

Following his death, there was a byelection to replace Roger Edward Downes on 30 August 1938.

Constituency
Electorate and turnoutCandidatePartyVotes
**HARTLEY**
584 (76.7%)**Henry Hamilton Beamish**Ind144
Thomas James GoldingRP125
Leslie Manfred Noel HodsonUP118
Thomas George GibsonRef61

References

  • Source Book of Parliamentary Elections and Referenda in Southern Rhodesia 1898–1962 ed. by F.M.G. Willson (Department of Government, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Salisbury 1963)
  • Holders of Administrative and Ministerial Office 1894–1964 by F.M.G. Willson and G.C. Passmore, assisted by Margaret T. Mitchell (Source Book No. 3, Department of Government, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Salisbury 1966)
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