| Election Name: | 1907 Jarrow by-election |
| Type: | presidential |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Previous Election: | Jarrow (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1900s |
| Previous Year: | 1906 |
| Next Election: | Jarrow (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1910s |
| Next Year: | Jan. 1910 |
| Election Date: | 4 July 1907 |
| Candidate1: | Curran |
| Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Popular Vote1: | 4,698 |
| Percentage1: | 33.0% |
| Candidate2: | Rose-Innes |
| Party2: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Popular Vote2: | 3,930 |
| Percentage2: | 27.6% |
| Candidate3: | Hughes |
| Party3: | Liberal Party (UK) |
| Popular Vote3: | 3,474 |
| Percentage3: | 24.4% |
| Candidate4: | O'Hanlon |
| Party4: | Irish Parliamentary Party |
| Popular Vote4: | 2,122 |
| Percentage4: | 14.9% |
| Map Size: | 250px |
| MP | |
| Posttitle: | Subsequent MP |
| Before Election: | Sir Charles Palmer |
| Before Party: | Liberal Party (UK) |
| After Election: | Godfrey Palmer |
| After Party: | Liberal Party (UK) |
The 1907 Jarrow by-election was held on 4 July 1907.
The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Liberal MP, Charles Palmer.
At the 1906 general election Palmer had had a straight fight with Labour;
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.[1] 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.[2]
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.
Book: Regional Identities in North-East England, 1300-2000 . Adrian Green . A. J. Pollard . The Boydell Press . Woodbridge, Suffolk . 2007 . 978-1-84383-335-2.