1922 Pontypridd by-election

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Candidate	Jones	Lewis
Party	Labour	National Liberal
Popular vote	16,630	12,550
Percentage	57.0	43.0

MP before election

Lewis
National Liberal

Subsequent MP

Mardy Jones
Labour

The 1922 Pontypridd by-election was held on 25 July 1922. The by-election was held due to the appointment of the incumbent Coalition Liberal MP, Thomas Arthur Lewis, as a Junior Lord of the Treasury. It was won by the Labour candidate Thomas Isaac Mardy Jones.^[1] It was the last of only eight ministerial by-elections in the UK not to be retained by the incumbent. The requirement for MPs who were appointed as ministers to seek re-election was entirely abolished by the Re-Election of Ministers Act (1919) Amendment Act 1926.^[2]

1922 Pontypridd by-election^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Mardy-Jones	16,630	57.0	+14.2
C	Liberal	Thomas Arthur Lewis	12,550	43.0	-13.1
Majority			4,080	13.2	N/A
Turnout			29,180	72.8	+4.5
Registered electors			40,071
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing

References

^ "House of Commons". leighrayment.com. Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 11 August 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ Boothroyd, David. "Causes of Byelections since the 'Reform Act'". United Kingdom Election Results. demon.co.uk. Archived from the original on 8 August 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
^ Craig, F. W. S. (1969). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (1 ed.). Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. ISBN 0-900178-019. Page 562

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