556:. Dunstan, the Labour candidate, sought to appeal to the centre ground by calling for widespread abolition of economic war-time restrictions. Pringle, the Liberal candidate, came out in support of Labour's policy of a capital levy, something that was not Liberal policy. It has been suggested that this stance may have cost him votes, lost to the Unionist candidate. Pringle advocated economic retrenchment to appeal to Unionist voters and also the nationalization of the railways and mines to appeal to Labour voters.
781:, became Leader of the Liberal Party. Dunstan continued to be unsuccessful in his bid to enter Parliament. Pringle made a successful return to the House in 1922, winning Penistone for the Liberals. Crewdson was later adopted as the National Party's prospective candidate for North Norfolk, before being adopted by the Unionists after the National Party was wound up. The result at the following general election saw the Liberals regain second place;
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74:
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There was speculation that Labour would not contest the election, allowing the
Liberals a clear run at the Unionists. Since the general election, Lib-Lab co-operation, otherwise known as the progressive alliance had seen the two parties gain two Unionist seats each. One of Labour's leading figures,
564:
The turnout for the by-election was up on the last general election. The
Unionists managed to hold the seat. Their support had fallen, but not much because of the intervention of the National Party. The Labour candidate did particularly well and pushed the Liberal candidate into third place.
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520:
a month earlier. The Widnes seat neighboured
Rusholme and the Liberals had been active in support of Henderson. The local Labour party insisted on fighting the seat and on 9 September announced a new candidate Dr.
1062:
1085:
769:
The relative success of the Labour party in such a constituency encouraged them to field candidates in further
Unionist/Liberal marginals rather than seek to reconstruct the Progressive Alliance.
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516:
was sympathetic to such an arrangement. Henderson had himself been the beneficiary of Lib-Lab co-operation when the
Liberals allowed him a straight fight with the Unionists at the
1055:
1787:
1782:
1777:
1772:
1767:
1762:
1757:
1752:
1747:
1742:
1737:
1732:
1727:
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501:
51:
41:
1092:
1074:
1048:
526:
505:
536:, who had not contested the 1918 general election. Thorpe was the eldest son of Ven. John Henry Thorpe, Archdeacon of Macclesfield. He had trained as a barrister.
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309:
297:
1507:
1131:
1465:
1343:
1040:
1512:
1273:
313:
274:
1562:
1110:
226:
1610:
1475:
1338:
1237:
785:
663:
497:
320:
1626:
1621:
1600:
1398:
1802:
1663:
1589:
1533:
1528:
1231:
1183:
1159:
1126:
1121:
553:
1605:
1481:
1403:
1305:
1694:
1683:
1673:
1413:
1333:
1289:
1284:
1198:
1657:
1646:
1429:
1193:
1705:
1539:
1388:
1382:
1316:
1188:
284:. The by-election was important for shaping the future Labour Party attitude to electoral relations with the Liberal Party.
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1550:
1424:
1354:
1149:
277:
1843:
1838:
1434:
1349:
1279:
1268:
1214:
1143:
1116:
101:
1699:
1523:
1491:
1486:
1454:
1321:
1294:
1247:
1171:
1636:
1631:
1595:
1496:
1444:
1408:
1311:
1263:
1204:
1641:
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1460:
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1154:
681:
540:
411:
187:
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Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1979)
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Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1979)
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British
Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1979)
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1165:
919:
815:
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1689:
1544:
1376:
1300:
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since March 1918. At the 1918 general election he had been in receipt of the
Coalition Government coupon.
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The seat was created for the 1918 general election partly out of the
Unionist/Liberal marginal seat of
1007:"Labour Candidate For Rusholme." Times 10 Sept. 1919: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 5 Aug. 2014.
980:"Labour Candidate For Rusholme." Times 10 Sept. 1919: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 5 Aug. 2014.
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456:
357:
281:
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111:
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121:
868:
822:
635:
610:
533:
406:
248:
116:
91:
927:
759:
742:
594:
513:
480:
464:
348:
640:
522:
96:
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901:
778:
716:
439:
80:
73:
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By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Manchester constituencies
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from Fulham, who had been a Liberal politician up until 1917. He had contested
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539:
The Conservative Party also now faced a challenge from the right when the
340:
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504:
until the 1918 general election, when he had been defeated at
777:
Thorpe sat until his defeat by the Liberals in 1923. His son
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intervened with first time candidate Capt. Roger Crewdson.
496:
The Liberal party selected a new candidate in 45-year-old
532:
The Conservative party's new candidate was 32-year-old
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1363:
1223:
1102:
989:The Downfall of the Liberal Party by Trevor Wilson
962:The Downfall of the Liberal Party by Trevor Wilson
221:
316:. The result at the last general election was;
760:candidate endorsed by the coalition government
481:candidate endorsed by the coalition government
1056:
8:
552:The election campaign took place during the
18:
1063:
1049:
1041:
783:
567:
318:
17:
1138:Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire Central
500:, who had been Member of Parliament for
946:
569:Manchester Rusholme by-election, 1919
312:and partly out of the Liberal seat of
292:In September 1919 the Conservative MP
1086:31st Parliament of the United Kingdom
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792:
715:
573:
438:
327:
7:
1824:1919 elections in the United Kingdom
296:died. He had previously represented
267:1919 Manchester Rusholme by-election
19:1919 Manchester Rusholme by-election
14:
1025:Trial By Ballot by Ivor RM Davies
998:Trial By Ballot by Ivor RM Davies
971:Trial By Ballot by Ivor RM Davies
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345:
79:
72:
25:
1:
273:held in October 1919 for the
554:great railway strike of 1919
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412:Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
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159:
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1344:Middleton and Prestwich
518:1919 Widnes by-election
788:: Manchester Rusholme
786:General election, 1922
502:North West Lanarkshire
323:: Manchester Rusholme
321:General election, 1918
1513:Heywood and Radcliffe
1274:Camberwell North West
852:E Frederick M Sutton
686:Roger Bowan Crewdson
1563:Southwark South East
1111:Liverpool West Derby
365:Robert Burdon Stoker
294:Robert Burdon Stoker
1844:1910s in Manchester
1839:October 1919 events
1476:Orkney and Shetland
1178:Manchester Rusholme
873:Albert Ernest Wood
789:
570:
391:Walter Butterworth
324:
282:Manchester Rusholme
20:
1627:Liverpool Exchange
1622:Wolverhampton West
1601:Manchester Clayton
1399:Birmingham Moseley
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568:
527:Birmingham Moseley
506:Glasgow Springburn
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196:Popular vote
128:Popular vote
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1534:South Londonderry
1529:Westminster Abbey
1232:Ashton-under-Lyne
1184:Chester-le-Street
1160:Dublin University
1127:Oxford University
1122:North Londonderry
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1414:Birmingham West
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1793:2010–present
1551:Westhoughton
1425:Bristol West
1355:Rhondda West
1177:
1150:Swansea East
1132:Hull Central
1091:
1082:By-elections
1073:
1030:
1021:
1012:
1003:
994:
985:
976:
967:
958:
949:
922:
920:Conservative
838:
833:
828:
821:
816:Conservative
814:
776:
768:
754:
737:
695:
626:
621:
616:
609:
602:
593:
563:
551:
475:
459:
375:
370:
363:
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347:
307:
291:
278:constituency
266:
264:
247:
243:
232:
225:
147:
131:
46:
15:
1538:September:
1435:East Dorset
1350:Abertillery
1326:September:
1280:Northampton
1269:Basingstoke
1215:Spen Valley
1170:September:
1144:East Antrim
1117:Leyton West
534:John Thorpe
206:Percentage
144:Percentage
1818:Categories
1700:Pontypridd
1695:North Down
1611:North Down
1594:February:
1561:December:
1555:November:
1524:Caerphilly
1492:North Down
1487:Mid Armagh
1455:Chichester
1381:February:
1348:December:
1339:The Wrekin
1332:November:
1322:Woodbridge
1295:Sunderland
1248:Horncastle
1238:The Wrekin
1236:February:
1203:December:
1182:November:
1172:Pontefract
1109:February:
941:References
796:Candidate
758:indicates
577:Candidate
491:Candidates
479:indicates
331:Candidate
174:Candidate
88:Candidate
1788:1979–2010
1783:1950–1979
1778:1931–1950
1773:1918–1931
1768:1900–1918
1763:1885–1900
1758:1868–1885
1753:1857–1868
1748:1847–1857
1743:1832–1847
1738:1818–1832
1733:1806–1818
1728:1801–1806
1710:October:
1637:Inverness
1632:Cambridge
1596:West Down
1578:January:
1549:October:
1497:West Down
1445:Eddisbury
1409:Penistone
1370:January:
1312:Ebbw Vale
1264:Stockport
1230:January:
1205:St Albans
1176:October:
887:Majority
773:Aftermath
702:Majority
426:Majority
314:Stretford
177:Crewdson
1704:August:
1642:Chertsey
1585:Tamworth
1522:August:
1518:Hertford
1503:Mid Down
1471:Abingdon
1461:Hastings
1372:Hereford
1259:Dartford
1164:August:
1155:Bothwell
735:Unionist
682:National
604:Unionist
548:Campaign
457:Unionist
358:Unionist
253:Unionist
238:Unionist
188:National
112:Unionist
1712:Newport
1679:Banbury
1669:Newbury
1653:Clapham
1620:March:
1557:Hornsey
1450:Bedford
1440:Bewdley
1420:Taunton
1418:April:
1387:March:
1278:April:
1252:March:
1243:Paisley
1210:Bromley
1136:April:
1115:March:
1090:»
1084:to the
1072:«
906:24,583
902:Turnout
848:Liberal
829:11,765
721:20,544
717:Turnout
659:Liberal
444:19,131
440:Turnout
387:Liberal
288:Vacancy
165:
122:Liberal
102:Pringle
97:Dunstan
67:
1688:July:
1662:June:
1616:Bodmin
1580:Ludlow
1501:July:
1480:June:
1394:Dudley
1328:Ilford
1310:July:
1299:June:
1254:Argyll
1166:Widnes
1148:July:
1096:»
1078:«
912:+10.3
890:5,344
876:6,397
869:Labour
855:6,421
799:Votes
793:Party
747:-18.0
711:−31.3
705:2,982
668:3,923
651:+15.6
645:6,412
636:Labour
627:−19.4
580:Votes
574:Party
560:Result
429:8,748
416:2,985
407:Labour
394:3,690
371:12,447
334:Votes
328:Party
269:was a
249:Thorpe
234:Stoker
184:Party
155:19.1%
152:31.2%
139:3,923
136:6,412
117:Labour
108:Party
92:Thorpe
1690:Gower
1651:May:
1545:Louth
1459:May:
1377:Dover
1301:Louth
1142:May:
932:-2.4
928:Swing
909:77.8
896:+7.3
893:21.8
882:−5.2
879:26.0
861:+7.0
858:26.1
839:+2.2
834:47.9
743:Swing
727:+4.6
724:67.5
708:14.5
674:−0.2
671:19.1
648:31.2
617:9,394
465:Swing
447:62.9
432:45.8
419:15.6
397:19.3
209:4.0%
148:45.7%
132:9,394
1572:1922
1364:1921
1224:1920
1103:1919
923:hold
738:hold
692:4.0
689:815
622:45.7
460:hold
376:66.1
265:The
199:815
52:1922
42:1918
696:New
280:of
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587:±%
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341:±%
337:%
227:MP
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