List of United Kingdom by-elections (1900 - 1918)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).

This is a list of parliamentary by-elections in the United Kingdom held between 1900 and 1918, with the names of the incumbent and victor and their respective parties. Where seats changed political party at the election, the result is highlighted: red for a Labour gain, blue for a Conservative gain, yellow for a Liberal gain and grey for any other gain.

Contents

[edit] By-elections

[edit] 30th Parliament (Dec 1910 - 1918)

Only seats which changed hands are listed.
By-election Year Incumbent Party Winner Party Cause
Salford North 1917 William Byles Conservative Ben Tillett Independent Labour
Sheffield Hallam 19161 Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley Conservative Herbert Fisher Liberal Resignation
Hertford 1916 John Rolleston Conservative Noel Pemberton Billing Independent
Merthyr Tydfil 1915 Keir Hardie Labour Charles Stanton Independent Labour Death
Ipswich 1914 Charles Horne Conservative Francis Ganzoni Liberal Death
North East Derbyshire 1914 William Edwin Harvey Labour George Bowden Conservative
Leith Burghs 1914 Ronald Munro-Ferguson Liberal George Welsh Currie Conservative Appointed Governor General of Australia
Bethnal Green South West 1914 Charles Masterman Conservative Matthew Richard Henry Wilson Liberal Appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
South Lanarkshire 1913 Walter Menzies Liberal William Watson Conservative
Reading 1913 Rufus Isaacs Liberal Leslie Orme Wilson Conservative Appointed Lord Chief Justice
Chesterfield 1913 James Haslam Labour Barnet Kenyon Lib-Lab
Newmarket 1913 Charles Day Rose Liberal John Denison-Pender Conservative
Kendal 1913 Josceline Bagot Conservative John Wakefield Weston Independent Conservative Death
Bow and Bromley 1912 George Lansbury Labour Reginald Blair Conservative Resigned to recontest on platform of women's suffrage
Edinburghshire 1912 Alexander Murray Liberal John Augustus Hope Conservative Raised to peerage as Baron Murray of Elibank
Hanley 1912 Enoch Edwards Labour Robert Outhwaite Liberal
Hackney South 1912 Horatio Bottomley Independent Liberal Hector Morison Liberal Declared bankrupt
Manchester South 1912 Arthur Howarth Liberal Philip Glazebrook Conservative
North Ayrshire 1911 Andrew Macbeth Anderson Conservative Duncan Frederick Campbell Liberal
South Somerset 1911 Edward Strachey Liberal Aubrey Herbert Conservative
Oldham 1911 Alfred Emmott Liberal Edward Denniss Conservative
Cheltenham 1911 Richard Mathias Liberal James Tynte Agg-Gardner Conservative
  • 1 A rare case of a gain in an unopposed election.

[edit] 29th Parliament (Jan - Dec 1910)

No seats changed hands in this Parliament.

[edit] 28th Parliament (1906 - Jan 1910)
By-election Year Incumbent Party Winner Party Cause
Basingstoke 1906 Arthur Frederick Jeffreys Conservative Arthur Clavell Salter KC Conservative
Bodmin 1906 Hon Thomas Charles Reginald Agar-Robartes Liberal Freeman Freeman-Thomas Liberal Unseated on petition
Cockermouth 1906 Sir Wilfrid Lawson Liberal Sir John Scurrah Randles Conservative Death
Dulwich 1906 Frederick Rutherfoord Harris Conservative Andrew Bonar Law Conservative Went abroad
Dundee 1908 John Leng Liberal Winston Churchill Liberal Death
Eye 1906 Francis Seymour Stevenson Liberal Weetman Pearson Liberal
Leicester 1906 Henry Broadhurst Liberal Franklin Thomasson Liberal
City of London 1906 Alban Gibbs Conservative Arthur Balfour Conservative Retired in favour of Balfour
City of London 1906 Sir Edward George Clarke Conservative Frederick Banbury Conservative

[edit] 27th Parliament (1900 - 1906)
By-election Year Incumbent Party Winner Party Cause
Monmouth 1901 Frederick Rutherfoord Harris Conservative Joseph Lawrence Conservative Unseated on petition
Dulwich 1903 Sir John Blundell Maple Conservative Frederick Rutherfoord Harris Conservative Death
Lewisham 1903 John Penn Conservative Major Edward Coates Conservative Death
By-elections in the United Kingdom
British Parliament: 1885 - 1900 • 1900 - 1918 • 1918 - 1931 • 1931 - 1950 • 1950 - 1979 • 1979 - present
Scottish Parliament • Welsh Assembly


[edit] References

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../l/i/s/List_of_United_Kingdom_by-elections_%281900_-_1918%29_85ed.html"