page_title: East Grinstead (UK Parliament constituency)
section_title: Elections in the 1930s
hierarchical_section_title: East Grinstead (UK Parliament constituency) / Elections / Elections in the 1930s
caption_attribution_description: Lecturer in Economics at LSE 1930-1947 IMAGELIBRARY/570 Persistent URL: archives.lse.ac.uk/dserve.exe?dsqServer=lib-4.lse.ac.uk&amp;a...
context_page_description: East Grinstead was a parliamentary constituency in the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. It first existed as a Parliamentary borough from 1307, returning two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons elected by the bloc vote system. The borough was disfranchised under the Reform Act 1832, but the name was revived at the 1885 election when the Redistribution of Seats Act created a new single-member county division of the same name.
  Upon its abolition for the 1983 election, its territory was divided between Mid Sussex and Wealden.
context_section_description: Liberal candidate Lewis R. Jones withdrew at the last minute.
  General Election 1939/40:
  Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected; 
  Conservative: Ralph Clarke
  Liberal: William Cavendish Searle
caption: Evan Durbin
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