1938 Kenyan general election

General elections were held in Kenya Colony between 26 March and 2 April 1938.Kenya Gazette, 7 March 1938 Three of the eleven white seats in the Legislative Council were uncontested,"Kenya Elections No Differences On General Policy", The Times, 4 April 1938, p12, Issue 47960 whilst all Indian seats were contested, and saw more businessmen were elected than politicians. Lady Sidney Farrar became the country's first female Legislative Council member after defeating Conway Harvey in the Nyanza constituency by two votes."News in Brief", The Times, 29 March 1938, p15, Issue 47955

Results ConstituencyCandidateVotes%NotesEuropean seatsAberdare(26 March)Ernest Hay Wright Re-electedFrans Johan Arnold Leonard George Edwyn Llewelyn Coast Province(26 March)Shirley Victor Cooke ElectedEwart Grogan Kiambu(2 April)Josslyn Hay ElectedArnold Bradley Mombasa(30 March)George Nicol ElectedFrederick Bemister DefeatedNairobi NorthFerdinand Cavendish-BentinckUnopposedRe-electedNairobi South(30 March)Marcuswell Maxwell ElectedThomas O'Shea Nyanza(26 March)Sidney Farrar ElectedConway Harvey DefeatedRift ValleyFrancis ScottUnopposedRe-electedTrans Nzoia(26 March)James Kirkwood Re-electedFrancis Henry le Britton Uasin Gishu(26 March)Stanley Ghersie ElectedAlbert Hoey DefeatedUkambaRobert ShawUnopposedRe-electedIndian seatsCentral(26–28 March)Shams-ud-Deen Re-electedIsher Dass Re-electedAlex de Souza DefeatedThakur Dass Devi Dass Puri Mangat Nahar Singh DefeatedEastern(26–28 March)Ambalal Bhailalbhai Patel ElectedPandya Jagannath Bhavanishanker ElectedKarmali Khimji Pradhan Hussein Bhaloo Vellani Western(26–28 March)Rahemtulla Kassam ElectedDhanwant Singh Arab seatColony and ProtectorateAli bin Salim bin KhalfanUnopposedElectedSource: East Africa and Rhodesia,"New Candidates Sweep the Board", East Africa and Rhodesia, 7 April 1938, p906 Kenya Gazette, HansardLegislative Council Debates Official Report, Second series, volume IV, 8 April–3 May 1938

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