Cockermouth by-election, 1906
The Cockermouth by-election, 1906 was a by-election held on 3 August 1906 for the British House of Commons constituency of Cockermouth.
The by-election was triggered by the death of the town's Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Sir Wilfrid Lawson.
The Liberal candidate was Captain Frederick Guest, a former Conservative who had followed his cousin Winston Churchill into the Liberal Party in 1904. Four of his brothers were also active in politics, and three became Members of Parliament. The Conservative candidate was Sir John Randles, who had held the seat from 1900 until losing narrowly in the general election in January. There was also a third candidate, Robert Smillie of the Independent Labour Party.
Turnout was only slightly down since the general election, when only two candidates had run, and although the Conservative vote fell slightly, the Liberals lost much more, probably due to the intervention of Smillie. The result was a gain for the Conservatives.[1]
Sir John Randles lost the seat again in the December 1910 election, this time to Sir Wilfred Lawson, son of the former MP. Frederick Guest was eventually returned as a Member of Parliament for East Dorset in the January 1910 general election.
Votes
See also
Notes
- ^ The Times, 6 August 1906
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| 1906 |
February: Westbury • City of London • East Aberdeenshire • North Galway • North Leitrim • March: North Kilkenny • Basingstoke • Leicester • April: Eye • May: Dulwich • June: Eifion • City of London • St George’s, Hanover Square • July: Bodmin • East Tyrone • August: Cockermouth • East Denbighshire • October: Mid Glamorgan • November: Galway • North Armagh • Huddersfield • December: Mid Cork |
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| 1907 |
January: North East Derbyshire • February: Perth • Banffshire • North Monmouthshire • Aberdeen South • Brigg • March: Halifax • North Tyrone • Hexham • April: South Westmeath • Belfast North • May: Stepney • Wimbledon • June: Hornsey • Rutland • North Monaghan • July: Jarrow • Colne Valley • South Kilkenny • East Wicklow • North West Staffordshire • August: Anglesey • Bury St Edmunds • September: West Down • South Longford • Liverpool Kirkdale • November: Kingston-upon-Hull West |
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| 1908 |
January: Ashburton • Ross • February: • Carlow County • St Austell • Mid Glamorgan • Worcester • Leeds South • North Leitrim • West Carmarthenshire • Bewdley • March: Hastings • West Down • Peckham • April: West Derbyshire • Sheffield Central • Dewsbury • Manchester North West • Kincardineshire • May: Wolverhampton East • Dundee • Montrose Burghs • Newport • Stirling Burghs • June: Pudsey • July: Pembrokeshire • August: Haggerston • September: Newcastle-upon-Tyne • December: Chelmsford |
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| 1909 |
January: Tamworth • February: Taunton • Forfarshire • March: Glasgow Central • Edinburgh South • Hawick Burghs • Croydon • April: East Denbighshire • Edinburgh East • May: Cork • Sheffield Attercliffe • Stratford-on-Avon • Edinburgh West • June: East Limerick • July: Cleveland • Mid Derbyshire • Dumfries Burghs • High Peak • August: North Sligo • South Kilkenny • September: West Clare • October: Bermondsey • November: South Armagh |
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