East Tyrone by-election, 1918
The East Tyrone by-election of 1918 was held on 3 April 1918. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Irish Parliamentary Party MP, William Redmond. It was won by the Irish Parliamentary candidate Thomas Harbison.[1]
Redmond had resigned in order to contest the Waterford by-election which had become vacant when his father, John Redmond, had died. The Sinn Féin candidate was Seán Milroy. The by-election was the last in a short string of by-elections where it seemed that the more moderate nationalists were regaining ground from Sinn Féin before being virtually wiped out in the 1918 general election in Ireland.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish Nationalist | Thomas James Stanislaus Harbison | 1802 | 59.6 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Dr Seán Milroy | 1222 | 40.4 | ||
| Majority | 580 | 19.1 | |||
| Turnout | 3024 | 43.92 | |||
| Irish Nationalist hold | Swing | ||||
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