1907 Stepney by-election

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1907 Stepney by-election
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  1906 10 May 1907 Jan. 1910  
  Leverton Harris crop.jpg Ben Cooper crop.jpg
Candidate Harris Cooper
Party Conservative Lib-Lab
Popular vote2,2991,350
Percentage63.0%37.0%

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MP before election

William Evans-Gordon
Conservative

Subsequent MP

Leverton Harris
Conservative

The 1907 Stepney by-election was held on 10 May 1907. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, William Evans-Gordon. It was won by the Conservative candidate Frederick Leverton Harris. [1]

Stepney by-election, 1907
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Frederick Leverton Harris 2,299 63.0
Lib-Lab Ben Cooper 1,35037.0
Majority94926.0
Turnout 5,62164.9
Conservative hold Swing +5.7

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