Kinross and West Perth by-election, Duchess of Atholl defeat
Declaration of the Kinross and West Perth by-election, with the winner, by 1313 votes, Mr. W. McNair Snadden, a local farmer and Unionist candidate on the left, and the Duchess of Atholl on the right, who had stood as an Independent (after resigning in protest at the Government's foreign policy). She had served as a member for the constituency since 1923. In the centre is Sheriff D. P. Blades, Returning Officer, announcing the results. Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, DBE (nee Ramsay 6 November 1874 - 21 October 1960), known as the Marchioness of Tullibardine from 1899 to 1917, was a Scottish noblewoman and Scottish Unionist Party politician. She was the first woman to be elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) in Scotland, despite having campaigned against women's suffrage before it was granted in 1918. She was the first woman to serve in a British Conservative government. She later found herself at odds with her party and resigned the Whip in 1935 over the India Bill. She became strongly anti-fascist in the 1930s and criticised authoritarian regimes in Soviet Russia, Italy and Spain as well as Nazi Germany. She was given the nickname Red Duchess for these views
