1920 Edinburgh North by-election

Last updated

1920 Edinburgh North by-election
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg
←  1918 9 April 1920 1922  →
  Patrick Ford.jpg Walter Runciman crop.jpg
Candidate Ford Runciman Pole
Party Unionist Liberal Labour
Popular vote9,9448,4693,808
Percentage44.8%38.1%17.1%
MP before election

Clyde
Unionist

Subsequent MP

Ford
Unionist

The 1920 Edinburgh North by-election was held on 9 April 1920. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Coalition Conservative MP, James Avon Clyde after he was appointed to the bench as Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session. [1] It was won by the Coalition Conservative candidate Patrick Ford [2]

Edinburgh North by-election, 1920 [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
C Unionist Patrick Ford 9,94444.8−18.2
Liberal Walter Runciman 8,46938.1+1.1
Labour David Pole 3,80817.1New
Majority1,4756.7−19.3
Turnout 22,22162.3+9.3
Unionist hold Swing -9.7
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

References

  1. ↑ "No. 13588". The Edinburgh Gazette . 20 April 1920. p. 1119.
  2. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
  3. ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN   0-900178-06-X.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.