Election Name: | 1922 Pontypridd by-election |
Type: | presidential |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Previous Election: | Pontypridd (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1910s |
Previous Year: | 1918 |
Next Election: | Pontypridd (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1920s |
Next Year: | 1922 |
Election Date: | 25 July 1922 |
Party1: | Welsh Labour |
Popular Vote1: | 16,630 |
Percentage1: | 57.0 |
Party2: | Coalition Liberal |
Popular Vote2: | 12,550 |
Percentage2: | 43.0 |
Map Size: | 250px |
Posttitle: | Subsequent MP |
Before Party: | Coalition Liberal |
After Party: | Welsh 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]