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Labour Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Popular vote </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>4,596</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">3,903 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">1,436 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Percentage </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>46.2%</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">39.3% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">14.5% </td></tr> </tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr /> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background:transparent; color: inherit; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width:50%; text-align:left;"><b><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">MP</a> before election</b><br /> <p><a href="/wiki/Sir_Wilfrid_Lawson,_2nd_Baronet,_of_Brayton" title="Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Brayton">Sir Wilfrid Lawson</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </p> </td> <td style="width:50%; text-align:right;"><b>Subsequent MP</b> <br /> <p><a href="/wiki/John_Randles" title="John Randles">John Randles</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>1906 Cockermouth by-election</b> was a <a href="/wiki/By-election" title="By-election">by-election</a> held on 3 August 1906 for the <a href="/wiki/British_House_of_Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="British House of Commons">British House of Commons</a> <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_constituencies" title="United Kingdom constituencies">constituency</a> of <a href="/wiki/Cockermouth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cockermouth (UK Parliament constituency)">Cockermouth</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Vacancy">Vacancy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1906_Cockermouth_by-election&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Vacancy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The by-election was triggered by the death of the town's <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> (MP) <a href="/wiki/Sir_Wilfrid_Lawson,_2nd_Baronet,_of_Brayton" title="Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Brayton">Sir Wilfrid Lawson</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_history">Electoral history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1906_Cockermouth_by-election&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Electoral history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the last General Election in January, the result was; </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_Wilfrid_Lawson,_political_postcard.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Sir_Wilfrid_Lawson%2C_political_postcard.jpg/120px-Sir_Wilfrid_Lawson%2C_political_postcard.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="184" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Sir_Wilfrid_Lawson%2C_political_postcard.jpg/180px-Sir_Wilfrid_Lawson%2C_political_postcard.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Sir_Wilfrid_Lawson%2C_political_postcard.jpg/240px-Sir_Wilfrid_Lawson%2C_political_postcard.jpg 2x" data-file-width="990" data-file-height="1518" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1906_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1906 United Kingdom general election">General election 1906</a> <a href="/wiki/Cockermouth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cockermouth (UK Parliament constituency)">Cockermouth</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Sir_Wilfrid_Lawson,_2nd_Baronet,_of_Brayton" title="Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Brayton">Wilfrid Lawson</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>5,349 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>52.8 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+4.1 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John_Scurrah_Randles" class="mw-redirect" title="John Scurrah Randles">John Scurrah Randles</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,786 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">563 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,135 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">86.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+10.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+4.1 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Candidates">Candidates</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1906_Cockermouth_by-election&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Candidates"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Liberal candidate chosen to defend the seat was <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Edward_Guest" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick Edward Guest">Captain Frederick Guest</a>. Thirty-one-year-old Guest was a former Conservative who had followed his cousin Winston Churchill, for whom he worked as private secretary, into the Liberal Party in 1904 in support of the policy of <a href="/wiki/Free_trade" title="Free trade">Free trade</a>. At the previous General Election in January, he was Liberal candidate for <a href="/wiki/Kingswinford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kingswinford (UK Parliament constituency)">Kingswinford</a> where he came second. </p><p>The Conservative candidate was <a href="/wiki/John_Scurrah_Randles" class="mw-redirect" title="John Scurrah Randles">Sir John Randles</a>, who had held the seat from 1900 until losing narrowly in the general election in January. Forty-eight-year-old Randles was an industrialist in the coal and steel business. </p><p>There was also a third candidate, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Smillie" title="Robert Smillie">Robert Smillie</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Independent_Labour_Party" title="Independent Labour Party">Independent Labour Party</a>. Forty-nine-year-old Smillie, in 1893 was a founding member of the <a href="/wiki/Independent_Labour_Party" title="Independent Labour Party">Independent Labour Party</a>. He had been President of the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Miners%27_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Miners' Federation">Scottish Miners' Federation</a> since 1894. He had stood unsuccessfully for parliament on a number of occasions since 1894. At the previous General Election in January, he was Labour candidate for <a href="/wiki/Paisley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley</a> when he came third. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Campaign">Campaign</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1906_Cockermouth_by-election&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Campaign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_John_Randles.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Sir_John_Randles.jpg/220px-Sir_John_Randles.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="131" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Sir_John_Randles.jpg/330px-Sir_John_Randles.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Sir_John_Randles.jpg/440px-Sir_John_Randles.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1559" data-file-height="930" /></a><figcaption>Randles during the campaign</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Result">Result</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1906_Cockermouth_by-election&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Result"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Turnout was only slightly down since the general election, when only two candidates had run, and although the Conservative vote fell slightly, the Liberals lost much more, probably due to the intervention of Smillie. The result was a gain for the Conservatives.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>Cockermouth by-election, 1906<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Scurrah_Randles" class="mw-redirect" title="John Scurrah Randles">John Scurrah Randles</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>4,593 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46.2 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−1.0 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Guest" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick Guest">Frederick Guest</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,903 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−13.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #B22222; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Labour_Party" title="Independent Labour Party">Ind. Labour Party</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Smillie" title="Robert Smillie">Robert Smillie</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,436 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">690 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,932 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">84.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.7 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+6.2 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aftermath">Aftermath</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1906_Cockermouth_by-election&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Randles held the seat at the following General Election; </p> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/January_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="January 1910 United Kingdom general election">General election January 1910</a> <a href="/wiki/Cockermouth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cockermouth (UK Parliament constituency)">Cockermouth</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Scurrah_Randles" class="mw-redirect" title="John Scurrah Randles">John Scurrah Randles</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>4,579 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>45.2 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−1.0 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Sir_Wilfrid_Lawson,_3rd_Baronet,_of_Brayton" title="Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet, of Brayton">Wilfrid Lawson</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,638 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">James Percy Whitehead </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,909 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">941 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,126 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">89.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.5 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+1.2 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Sir John Randles lost the seat again in the <a href="/wiki/December_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="December 1910 United Kingdom general election">December 1910 election</a>, this time to <a href="/wiki/Sir_Wilfrid_Lawson,_3rd_Baronet,_of_Brayton" title="Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet, of Brayton">Sir Wilfred Lawson</a>, son of the former MP. Frederick Guest was eventually returned as a Member of Parliament for <a href="/wiki/East_Dorset_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="East Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)">East Dorset</a> in the <a href="/wiki/January_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="January 1910 United Kingdom general election">January 1910 general election</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1906_Cockermouth_by-election&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_by-elections" class="mw-redirect" title="List of United Kingdom by-elections">List of United Kingdom by-elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cockermouth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cockermouth (UK Parliament constituency)">Cockermouth constituency</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1906_Cockermouth_by-election&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/1906_St_George%27s,_Hanover_Square_by-election" title="1906 St George's, Hanover Square by-election">St George's, Hanover Square</a></li> <li>July: <a href="/wiki/1906_Bodmin_by-election" title="1906 Bodmin by-election">Bodmin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1906_East_Tyrone_by-election" title="1906 East Tyrone by-election">East Tyrone</a></li> <li>August: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Cockermouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1906_East_Denbighshire_by-election" title="1906 East Denbighshire by-election">East Denbighshire</a></li> <li>October: <a href="/wiki/1906_Mid_Glamorganshire_by-election" class="mw-redirect" title="1906 Mid Glamorganshire by-election">Mid Glamorganshire</a></li> <li>November: <a href="/wiki/1906_Galway_Borough_by-election" title="1906 Galway Borough by-election">Galway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1906_North_Armagh_by-election" title="1906 North Armagh by-election">North Armagh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1906_Huddersfield_by-election" title="1906 Huddersfield by-election">Huddersfield</a></li> <li>December: <a href="/wiki/1906_Mid_Cork_by-election" title="1906 Mid Cork by-election">Mid Cork</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1907</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>January: <a href="/wiki/1907_North_East_Derbyshire_by-election" title="1907 North East Derbyshire by-election">North East Derbyshire</a></li> <li>February: <a href="/wiki/1907_Perth_by-election" title="1907 Perth by-election">Perth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_Banffshire_by-election" title="1907 Banffshire by-election">Banffshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_North_Monmouthshire_by-election" class="mw-redirect" title="1907 North Monmouthshire by-election">North Monmouthshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_Aberdeen_South_by-election" title="1907 Aberdeen South by-election">Aberdeen South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_Brigg_by-election" title="1907 Brigg by-election">Brigg</a></li> <li>March: <a href="/wiki/1907_Halifax_by-election" title="1907 Halifax by-election">Halifax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_North_Tyrone_by-election" title="1907 North Tyrone by-election">North Tyrone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_Hexham_by-election" title="1907 Hexham by-election">Hexham</a></li> <li>April: <a href="/wiki/1907_South_Westmeath_by-election" title="1907 South Westmeath by-election">South Westmeath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_Belfast_North_by-election" title="1907 Belfast North by-election">Belfast North</a></li> <li>May: <a href="/wiki/1907_Stepney_by-election" title="1907 Stepney by-election">Stepney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_Wimbledon_by-election" title="1907 Wimbledon by-election">Wimbledon</a></li> <li>June: <a href="/wiki/1907_Hornsey_by-election" title="1907 Hornsey by-election">Hornsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_Rutlandshire_by-election" title="1907 Rutlandshire by-election">Rutland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_North_Monaghan_by-election" title="1907 North Monaghan by-election">North Monaghan</a></li> <li>July: <a href="/wiki/1907_Jarrow_by-election" title="1907 Jarrow by-election">Jarrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_Colne_Valley_by-election" title="1907 Colne Valley by-election">Colne Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_South_Kilkenny_by-election" title="1907 South Kilkenny by-election">South Kilkenny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_East_Wicklow_by-election" title="1907 East Wicklow by-election">East Wicklow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_North_West_Staffordshire_by-election" title="1907 North West Staffordshire by-election">North West Staffordshire</a></li> <li>August: <a href="/wiki/1907_Anglesey_by-election" title="1907 Anglesey by-election">Anglesey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_Bury_St_Edmunds_by-election" title="1907 Bury St Edmunds by-election">Bury St Edmunds</a></li> <li>September: <a href="/wiki/1907_West_Down_by-election" title="1907 West Down by-election">West Down</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_South_Longford_by-election" title="1907 South Longford by-election">South Longford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_Liverpool_Kirkdale_by-election" title="1907 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election">Liverpool Kirkdale</a></li> <li>November: <a href="/wiki/1907_Kingston_upon_Hull_West_by-election" title="1907 Kingston upon Hull West by-election">Kingston upon Hull West</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1908</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>January: <a href="/wiki/1908_Ashburton_by-election" title="1908 Ashburton by-election">Ashburton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_Ross_by-election" title="1908 Ross by-election">Ross</a></li> <li>February: <a href="/wiki/1908_County_Carlow_by-election" title="1908 County Carlow by-election">Carlow County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_St_Austell_by-election" title="1908 St Austell by-election">St Austell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_Mid_Glamorganshire_by-election" class="mw-redirect" title="1908 Mid Glamorganshire by-election">Mid Glamorganshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_Worcester_by-election" title="1908 Worcester by-election">Worcester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_Leeds_South_by-election" title="1908 Leeds South by-election">Leeds South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_North_Leitrim_by-election" title="1908 North Leitrim by-election">North Leitrim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_West_Carmarthenshire_by-election" title="1908 West Carmarthenshire by-election">West Carmarthenshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_Bewdley_by-election" title="1908 Bewdley by-election">Bewdley</a></li> <li>March: <a href="/wiki/1908_Hastings_by-election" title="1908 Hastings by-election">Hastings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_West_Down_by-election" title="1908 West Down by-election">West Down</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_Peckham_by-election" title="1908 Peckham by-election">Peckham</a></li> <li>April: <a href="/wiki/1908_West_Derbyshire_by-election" title="1908 West Derbyshire by-election">West Derbyshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_Sheffield_Central_by-election" title="1908 Sheffield Central by-election">Sheffield Central</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_Dewsbury_by-election" title="1908 Dewsbury by-election">Dewsbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_Manchester_North_West_by-election" title="1908 Manchester North West by-election">Manchester North West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_Kincardineshire_by-election" title="1908 Kincardineshire by-election">Kincardineshire</a></li> <li>May: <a href="/wiki/1908_Wolverhampton_East_by-election" title="1908 Wolverhampton East by-election">Wolverhampton East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_Dundee_by-election" title="1908 Dundee by-election">Dundee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_Montrose_Burghs_by-election" title="1908 Montrose Burghs by-election">Montrose Burghs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_Newport_by-election" title="1908 Newport by-election">Newport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_Stirling_Burghs_by-election" title="1908 Stirling Burghs by-election">Stirling Burghs</a></li> <li>June: <a href="/wiki/1908_Pudsey_by-election" title="1908 Pudsey by-election">Pudsey</a></li> <li>July: <a href="/wiki/1908_Pembrokeshire_by-election" title="1908 Pembrokeshire by-election">Pembrokeshire</a></li> <li>August: <a href="/wiki/1908_Haggerston_by-election" title="1908 Haggerston by-election">Haggerston</a></li> <li>September: <a href="/wiki/1908_Newcastle-upon-Tyne_by-election" title="1908 Newcastle-upon-Tyne by-election">Newcastle-upon-Tyne</a></li> <li>December: <a href="/wiki/1908_Chelmsford_by-election" title="1908 Chelmsford by-election">Chelmsford</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1909</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>January: <a href="/wiki/1909_Tamworth_by-election" title="1909 Tamworth by-election">Tamworth</a></li> <li>February: <a href="/wiki/1909_Taunton_by-election" title="1909 Taunton by-election">Taunton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1909_Forfarshire_by-election" title="1909 Forfarshire by-election">Forfarshire</a></li> <li>March: <a href="/wiki/1909_Glasgow_Central_by-election" title="1909 Glasgow Central by-election">Glasgow Central</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1909_Edinburgh_South_by-election" title="1909 Edinburgh South by-election">Edinburgh South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1909_Hawick_Burghs_by-election" title="1909 Hawick Burghs by-election">Hawick Burghs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1909_Croydon_by-election" title="1909 Croydon by-election">Croydon</a></li> <li>April: <a href="/wiki/1909_East_Denbighshire_by-election" title="1909 East Denbighshire by-election">East Denbighshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1909_Edinburgh_East_by-election" title="1909 Edinburgh East by-election">Edinburgh East</a></li> <li>May: <a href="/wiki/1909_Cork_City_by-election" title="1909 Cork City by-election">Cork</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1909_Sheffield_Attercliffe_by-election" title="1909 Sheffield Attercliffe by-election">Sheffield Attercliffe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1909_Stratford-on-Avon_by-election" title="1909 Stratford-on-Avon by-election">Stratford-on-Avon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1909_Edinburgh_West_by-election" title="1909 Edinburgh West by-election">Edinburgh West</a></li> <li>June: <a href="/wiki/1909_East_Limerick_by-election" title="1909 East Limerick by-election">East Limerick</a></li> <li>July: <a href="/wiki/1909_Cleveland_by-election" title="1909 Cleveland by-election">Cleveland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1909_Mid_Derbyshire_by-election" title="1909 Mid Derbyshire by-election">Mid Derbyshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1909_Dumfries_Burghs_by-election" title="1909 Dumfries Burghs by-election">Dumfries Burghs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1909_High_Peak_by-election" title="1909 High Peak by-election">High Peak</a></li> <li>August: <a href="/wiki/1909_North_Sligo_by-election" title="1909 North Sligo by-election">North Sligo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1909_South_Kilkenny_by-election" title="1909 South Kilkenny by-election">South Kilkenny</a></li> <li>September: <a href="/wiki/1909_West_Clare_by-election" title="1909 West Clare by-election">West Clare</a></li> <li>October: <a href="/wiki/1909_Bermondsey_by-election" title="1909 Bermondsey by-election">Bermondsey</a></li> <li>November: <a href="/wiki/1909_South_Armagh_by-election" title="1909 South Armagh by-election">South Armagh</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <dl><dt>Lists of UK by-elections</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_by-elections_(1801%E2%80%931806)" title="List of United 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