Ayr Burghs by-election, 1925

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The Ayr Burghs by-election of 1925 was held on 12 June 1925. The by-election was held due to the appointment of the incumbent Conservative MP, John Baird, as the Governor-General of Australia.

Ayr Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1950. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP), using the first-past-the-post voting system.

John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven Australian journalist, lawyer and politician

John Lawrence Baird, Viscount Stonehaven, was a British politician who served as the eighth Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1925 to 1930. He had previously been a government minister under David Lloyd George, Bonar Law, and Stanley Baldwin.

Governor-General of Australia representative of the monarch of Australia

The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative of the Australian monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II. As the Queen is shared equally with the 15 other Commonwealth realms, and resides in the United Kingdom, she, on the advice of her prime minister, appoints a governor-general to carry out constitutional duties within the Commonwealth of Australia. The governor-general has formal presidency over the Federal Executive Council and is commander-in-chief of the Australian Defence Force. The functions of the governor-general include appointing ministers, judges, and ambassadors; giving royal assent to legislation passed by parliament; issuing writs for election; and bestowing Australian honours.

General Election 1924: Ayr Burghs [1] Electorate
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Unionist John Baird 16,153
Labour J. M. Airlie 9,787
Majority
Turnout
Unionist hold Swing

It was won by the Unionist candidate Thomas Moore. [2]

Sir Thomas Cecil Russell Moore, 1st Baronet CBE was a long-serving Scottish Unionist Party politician. He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayr Burghs in a 1925 by-election, and served until his retirement in 1964, when he was succeeded by George Younger. Moore was created a Baronet, of Kyleburn in the County of Ayr, in 1956. He died in April 1971, aged 84, when the baronetcy became extinct. In the mid 1930s Moore, a Colonel in the British Army, wrote widely in the UK press in support of Adolf Hitler and the policies of Nazism.

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William Pringle
Ayr Burghs by-election, 1925 [3] Electorate
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Unionist Thomas Moore 11,601
Labour Patrick Dollan 9,787
Liberal William Pringle 4,656
Majority
Turnout
Unionist hold Swing

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References

  1. Oliver and Boyd's Edinburgh Almanack, 1927
  2. http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm
  3. The Times, 13 June 1925