Talk:1931 Guildford by-election

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I'll fish out the references and write this in but my recollection from reading The Times for the period is that originally there were Conservative, Labour and Liberal candidates, though the Labour candidate stood down early on. During the course of the by-election some prominent Liberals had letters published suggesting it would be better to let the by-election go unopposed because of the problems of elections in August. In the end the Liberal stood down on the 25th, but this was because the previous day the National Government was formed, and he felt the political situation had changed so drastically as to make a contest undesirable. Timrollpickering 14:22, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uncontested so stubby length only is fine[edit]

This was uncontested so absolute brevity in every way is a must. - Adam37 Talk 19:51, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Disagree - not that I think it will matter much in this particular case. If you glance at some of the more fully covered by-election pages you will note that the section 'Candidates' is often the lengthier and more interesting section. Rather than 'absolute brevity' I would always say that 'proportionate coverage' in every way is a must. Graemp (talk) 22:33, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]