South Shields by-election, 1916
The South Shields by-election, 1916 was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of South Shields on 18 March 1916.
Vacancy
The by-election was caused by the death of the sitting Liberal MP Russell Rea who had held the seat since himself winning it in a by-election on 27 October 1910.
Candidates
The Liberals selected Cecil Cochrane a 46 year old ironmaster from Middlesbrough as their candidate. Cochrane had contested Durham for the Liberals at the December 1910 general election. [1] In view of the wartime truce between the parties, neither the Unionists nor the Labour Party put forward candidates and there were no Independent candidates either.
The result
Cochrane was returned unopposed. [2]
References
- ^ The Times, 3 March 1916 p5
- ^ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918; Macmillan Press, 1974 p191
See also
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1911 |
February: Arfon • Cambridge University • Horncastle • Westbury • Forest of Dean • March: North East Lanarkshire • Brentford • Bootle • April: Haddingtonshire • Cheltenham • East Dorset • May: Birmingham South • Barnstaple • June: Ross & Cromarty • Brighton • July: Kingston-upon-Hull Central • Glasgow Tradeston • St Augustine's • West Ham North • East Wicklow • North East Cork • East Cork • Luton • Wellington • Bethnal Green South West • August: Middleton • September: Kilmarnock District • October: North Tyrone • Keighley • November: Bristol East • Oldham • South Somerset • Hitchin • December: North Ayrshire • Govan
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1912 |
January: Carmarthen District • February: Edinburgh East • Glasgow St Rollox • March: Manchester South • Hereford • South East Essex • Leominster • Epsom • April: Nottingham East • Forest of Dean • May: Hackney South • North West Norfolk • June: Hythe • Holmfirth • July: Ilkeston • Hanley • Crewe • August: Manchester North West • East Carmarthenshire • September: Edinburghshire • November: Taunton • Bolton • Bow & Bromley
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1913 |
January: Flint District • Londonderry City • February: East Waterford • East Antrim • Chorley • March: Houghton-le-Spring • Kendal • April: Shrewsbury • Whitechapel • May: Newmarket • Altrincham • June: Leix • Wandsworth • Dover • Leicester • July: St George's, Hanover Square • August: Chesterfield • November: North Cork • Linlithgowshire • Reading • Keighley • December: Wick District • South Lanarkshire
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1914 |
January: North West Durham • February: Wycombe • Cork City • Bethnal Green South West • Poplar • Leith Burghs • April: Belfast East • East Fife • May: Great Grimsby • North East Derbyshire • Ipswich • June: Brighton • Oxford University • July: Birmingham West • East Worcestershire • North Galway • August: Swansea District • West Wicklow • September: Bolton • The Hartlepools • November: Londonderry City • December: East Galway • Tullamore • Sheffield Attercliffe
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1915 |
February: Norwich • Swansea District • Scarborough • Shipley • Howdenshire • Thirsk & Malton • Wigtownshire • Chesterton • Saffron Walden • Liverpool Kirkdale • Mid Antrim • Maidstone • March: Carmarthen District • April: Mid Durham • May: Kilmarnock District • June: Preston • Dublin College Green • North Tipperary • Keighley • July: Arfon • Glasgow Central • October: Dublin Harbour • Appleby • November: Heywood • Uxbridge • Cardiff • Kingston • St Helen's • St Austell • Merthyr Tydfil • Tiverton • December: Cleveland
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1916 |
January: Newington West • St George, Hanover Square • Portsmouth • North West Staffordshire • Chesterton • Bradford Central • Mile End • Rotherham • February: Liverpool East Toxteth • North Louth • Bolton • Chester • Droitwich • March: Cockermouth • Hertford • South Shields • Harborough • Hyde • April: Wimbledon • Dublin University • Ossory • May: Tewkesbury • Widnes • July: Berwickshire • August: Bodmin • Berwick-upon-Tweed • Colne Valley • Abingdon • September: Mansfield • October: North Ayrshire • St Pancras West • Winchester • North Fermanagh • November: West Cork • December: Hornsey • Ashton-under-Lyne • Sheffield Hallam • Whitechapel • Derby • Edinburgh & St Andrews Universities
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1917 |
January: Inverness-shire • February: North Roscommon • Dublin University • Rotherham • Rossendale • West Perthshire • North Roscommon • March: Stockton • Oxford • April: Aberdeen South • Belfast South • Ealing • May: South Longford • Edinburgh South • June: Epping • Henley • Liverpool Abercromby • July: Belfast South • Fulham • South County Dublin • East Clare • South Monmouthshire • Cambridge • Chesterton • Dundee • August: Edinburgh & St Andrews Universities • Norwich • October: Islington East • Spalding • Basingstoke • November: Salford North • North Armagh • December: Wisbech • Southampton
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