text: 1941 South Dorset by-election
  
  The South Dorset by-election of 1941 was held on 22 February 1941.  The by-election was held due to the succession to the peerage by writ of acceleration of the incumbent Conservative MP, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, as Baron Cecil of Essendon the junior subsidiary title of The Marquessate of Salisbury then held by his father.  It was won by the Conservative candidate Victor Montagu.
  
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