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The South Norfolk by-election, 1920 was a by-election held on 27 July 1920 for the British House of Commons constituency of South Norfolk.
The by-election was triggered by the succession to the peerage of the serving Coalition Liberal Member of Parliament (MP), William Cozens-Hardy.
South Norfolk had been a safe Liberal seat since Arthur Soames's victory in the 1898 by-election, but the Liberal vote was now divided. The Coalition Liberal candidate was J H Batty, who received the support of the Coalition leaders, David Lloyd George and Andrew Bonar Law. C. H. Roberts ran as an Independent Liberal. They were joined by a strong Labour Party candidate, George Edwards, a former agricultural labourer who had founded the National Union of Land Workers, and who had polled around a third of the vote as the only other candidate in the 1918 general election.
The result was a clear win for Edwards, who picked up around 2000 votes on a very similar turnout to the general election, and exploited the split in the Liberal vote, with Batty recommending those of his supporters who could not bring themselves to vote for the Coalition to support Edwards instead.[1] Edwards was defeated in the next election, but held the seat again between 1923 and 1924.
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- ^ The Times, 26 July 1920
- The Times, 10 August 1920
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| 1919 |
February: Liverpool West Derby • March: Leyton West • North Londonderry • Oxford University • Hull Central • April: Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire Central • May: East Antrim • July: Swansea East • Bothwell • Dublin University • August: Widnes • September: Pontefract • October: Manchester Rusholme • November: Chester-le-Street • Croydon South • Isle of Thanet • Plymouth Sutton • December: St Albans • Bromley • Spen Valley |
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| 1920 |
January: Ashton-under-Lyne • February: The Wrekin • Paisley • Horncastle • March: Argyll • Dartford • Stockport • Basingstoke • Camberwell North West • April: Northampton • Edinburgh North • Edinburgh South • Sunderland • June: Louth • Nelson and Colne • July: Ebbw Vale • South Norfolk • Woodbridge • September: Ilford • November: Hemel Hempstead • The Wrekin • Middleton and Prestwich • December: Abertillery • Rhondda West |
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| 1921 |
January: Hereford • Dover • February: Cardiganshire • March: Woolwich East • Dudley • Birmingham Moseley • Kirkcaldy Burghs • Penistone • Birmingham West • April: Taunton • Bristol West • Glasgow Pollok • East Dorset • Bewdley • Eddisbury • Bedford • Chichester • May: Hastings • Penrith and Cockermouth • Abingdon • Orkney and Shetland • June: Belfast Duncairn • Mid Antrim • North Down • West Down • July: Mid Down • Westminster St George's • Heywood and Radcliffe • Hertford • August: Caerphilly • Westminster Abbey • South Londonderry • September: Lewisham West • Louth • October: Westhoughton • November: Hornsey • December: Southwark South East |
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| 1922 |
January: Ludlow • January: Tamworth • January: South Londonderry • February: West Down • February: Manchester Clayton • February: Camberwell North • February: North Down • February: Bodmin • March: Wolverhampton West • March: Liverpool Exchange • March: Cambridge • March: Inverness • March: Chertsey • March: Leicester East • May: Wandsworth • May: City of London • June: North Londonderry • June: Newbury • June: Moray and Nairn • June: Banbury • June: Nottingham East • July: Gower • July: North Down • July: Pontypridd • August: Hackney South • October: Newport |
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