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victory. He called for the Labour and Liberal parties to come to some sort of electoral arrangement as had been the practice in the past. In response, the Labour Party decided to drop him as prospective candidate. Due to the outbreak of war, the election never took place. Joseph Davies, who had been adopted as Liberal candidate back in 1913 was a supporter of David Lloyd George and in 1918 was granted the 'Coalition Coupon'. As a result, Ernest Craig withdrew and did not defend the seat he had won 6 years earlier.
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Following the by-election the Labour Party decided to re-adopt Holmes as their prospective parliamentary candidate. The National Union of Railwaymen agreed to be his sponsor. However Holmes was concerned that another election where the progressive vote was split would result in another Unionist
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The Labour Party, who had not fielded a candidate in December 1910 having fielded a candidate in January 1910, decided to re-enter the contest. Their candidate was
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A General Election was due to take place by the end of 1915. By the autumn of 1914, the following candidates had been adopted to contest that election;
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The Liberal Party had won every election in Crewe, since the seat was created in 1885 apart from the 1895 election, when a Conservative won.
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The intervention of the Labour candidate took enough votes from the Liberal candidate to help the Unionist candidate win.
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Given the intervention of the Labour Party, the result of the previous three-way contest is relevant;
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Craig, F. W. S. (1974). British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (1 ed.). London: Macmillan.
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The Liberal candidate was 30-year-old Harold Lawson Murphy, a lecturer in Political Economy in
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The Social and Economic Development of Crewe, 1780-1923 by William Henry Chaloner
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By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Cheshire constituencies
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since the April 1910 By-Election. In 1912, he died causing the vacancy.
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who was a member of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants.
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held on 26 July 1912. The constituency returned one
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Index

Dec. 1910
1918


Craig
Holmes
Unionist
Liberal
Labour
MP
Walter McLaren
Liberal
Joseph Davies
Liberal
Crewe
Parliamentary by-election
Member of Parliament
House of Commons of the United Kingdom
first past the post
Walter McLaren
Crewe

General election December 1910
Liberal
Walter McLaren
Liberal Unionist
Ernest Craig
Turnout
Liberal
Swing

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