Dulwich by-election, 1906
The Dulwich by-election, 1906 was a by-election held on 15 May 1906 for the British House of Commons constituency of Dulwich in South London.
The by-election was triggered by the resignation of the serving Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP), Dr Frederick Rutherfoord Harris, who was moving back to South Africa where he had previously lived for many years.
The Unionist candidate was Andrew Bonar Law, former Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade who had lost his seat in the Liberal landslide in the February general election. The Liberal Party candidate was David Williamson, who had also contested the February election.
The Conservative majority increased by over 900 votes, which the Times attributed not only to Bonar Law's candidature but also to the unpopularity of the Government's Education Bill, suggesting that the Catholic vote, estimated at 700, had gone mostly to the Conservatives as a result.
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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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