1907 Jarrow by-election

1907 Jarrow by-election

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Candidate Curran Rose-Innes Hughes Party Labour Conservative Liberal Popular vote 4,698 3,930 3,474 Percentage 33.0% 27.6% 24.4%   Candidate O'Hanlon Party Irish Parliamentary Popular vote 2,122 Percentage 14.9%

MP before election Sir Charles Palmer Liberal Subsequent MP Godfrey Palmer Liberal

The 1907 Jarrow by-election was held on 4 July 1907.

Vacancy

The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Liberal MP, Charles Palmer.^[1]

Electoral history

At the 1906 general election Palmer had had a straight fight with Labour;

Candidates

The sitting Liberal MP, the 84-year-old Sir Charles Palmer, had announced that he did not intend to stand for Parliament at the next election and the local Liberals had already selected Spencer Leigh Hughes as his replacement.^[2] Hughes’ opportunity to get into Parliament came quickly as Sir Charles died on 4 June 1907 thus causing a by-election at which Hughes was adopted as Liberal candidate. Hughes faced, Labour, Conservative and Irish Parliamentary Party opponents.^[3]

Result

Aftermath

For Curran, it was a short-lived triumph as he was unseated by another Liberal at the following General Election in January 1910. Rose-Innes did not stand for Parliament again. In 1909 Hughes was the unsuccessful Liberal candidate at the 1909 Bermondsey by-election. The Irish Nationalists never again ran a candidate in Jarrow.

External links

Adrian Green; A. J. Pollard, eds. (2007). Regional Identities in North-East England, 1300-2000. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-335-2.

References