1921 Southwark South East by-election

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1921 Southwark South East by-election
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  1918 14 December 1921 1922  
  Thomas Naylor.jpg Owen Jacobsen.jpg Horace Boot.jpg
Candidate Naylor Jacobsen Boot
Party Labour Coalition Liberal Ind. Conservative
Popular vote6,5612,6362,307
Percentage57.022.920.1

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MP before election

Dawes
Liberal

Subsequent MP

Naylor
Labour

The Southwark South East by-election, 1921 was a parliamentary by-election held on 14 December 1921 for the British House of Commons constituency of Southwark South East, in the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark in London.

Contents

The seat had become vacant on the death of the constituency's Coalition Liberal Member of Parliament (MP), James Arthur Dawes. Dawes had been MP for Southwark South East since the 1918 election, and before that Walworth since the January 1910 election.

History

Dawes James Arthur Dawes.jpg
Dawes
1918 general election: Southwark South East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
C Liberal James Arthur Dawes 7,20872.6N/A
Labour Thomas Naylor 2,71827.4N/A
Majority4,49045.2N/A
Turnout 9,92645.2N/A
Liberal hold Swing N/A
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Result

Southwark South East by-election, 1921
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Thomas Naylor 6,561 57.0 +29.6
C Liberal Thomas Owen Jacobsen 2,63622.9-49.7
Ind. Conservative Horace Boot2,30720.1New
Majority3,92534.1N/A
Turnout 11,50438.5-6.7
Labour gain from Liberal Swing +39.6
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

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