Election Name: | 1920 Bruce by-election |
Country: | New Zealand |
Flag Year: | 1920 |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1919 New Zealand general election |
Previous Year: | 1919 general |
Next Election: | 1922 New Zealand general election |
Next Year: | 1922 general |
Election Date: | 14 April 1920 |
Turnout: | 4,734 (63.92%) |
Candidate1: | John Edie |
Party1: | New Zealand Liberal Party |
Popular Vote1: | 2,421 |
Percentage1: | 51.14 |
Candidate2: | James Begg |
Party2: | Reform Party (New Zealand) |
Popular Vote2: | 2,297 |
Percentage2: | 48.52 |
MP | |
Before Election: | James Allen |
Before Party: | Reform Party (New Zealand) |
After Election: | John Edie |
After Party: | New Zealand Liberal Party |
The Bruce by-election of 1920 was a by-election held on 14 April 1920 during the 20th New Zealand Parliament in the rural lower South Island electorate of the .
The contest was triggered due to the resignation from Parliament of James Allen, who took up the position of New Zealand's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. The Liberal Party's chosen candidate was John Edie. He had contested the Bruce electorate in the 1919 election against James Allen and was beaten by the mere margin of 126 votes (only 2.15%).[1]
The following table gives the election results:
The Bruce electorate was abolished for the 1922 general election. Edie won the Clutha electorate, holding it until 1925.