UK Elections Info

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Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 15 March 1893

Died: 21 January 1972

1st Viscount Chandos - 9 September 1954

Member of Privy Council - 1940

President of the Board of Trade	October 1940	June 1941
Minister of State for Cairo	1941	1941
Minister of War Production	1941	1945
President of the Board of Trade	May 1945	July 1945
Secretary of State for the Colonies	28 October 1951	28 July 1954

26 November 1940	Aldershot	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed
26 November 1940 Rt Hon Oliver Lyttelton was the President of the Board of Trade at the time of the election.
5 July 1945	Aldershot	Conservative & Unionist Party	19,456	57.41
23 February 1950	Aldershot	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,238	52.23
25 October 1951	Aldershot	Conservative & Unionist Party	24,951	60.34
9 September 1954 Elevation of Rt Hon Oliver Lyttelton to the Peerage - Viscount Chandos.