List of United Kingdom by-elections (1918–1931) explained

This is a list of parliamentary by-elections in the United Kingdom held between 1918 and 1931, with the names of the incumbent and victor and their respective parties. Where seats changed political party at the election, the result is highlighted: red for a Labour gain, blue for a Conservative gain, orange for a Liberal gain, and grey for any other gain. A total of 233 by-elections were held during this period.

Resignations

See Resignation from the British House of Commons for more details.

Where the cause of by-election is given as "resignation" or "seeks re-election", this indicates that the incumbent was appointed on his or her own request to an "office of profit under the Crown", either the Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds or the Steward of the Manor of Northstead. These appointments are made as a constitutional device for leaving the House of Commons, whose Members are not permitted to resign.

By-elections

35th Parliament (1929–1931)
By-election	Date	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause
Guildford	25 August 1931^[1]	Henry Buckingham		Charles Rhys		Death
Liverpool Wavertree	23 June 1931	John Tinné		Ronald Nall-Cain		Resignation
Manchester Ardwick	22 June 1931	Thomas Lowth		Joseph Henderson		Death
Gateshead	8 June 1931	James Melville		Herbert Evans		Death
Rutherglen	21 May 1931	William Wright		David Hardie		Death
Stroud	21 May 1931	Sir Frank Nelson		Walter Perkins		Resignation
Ogmore	19 May 1931	Vernon Hartshorn		Edward Williams		Death
Glasgow St Rollox	7 May 1931	James Stewart		William Leonard		Death
Scarborough and Whitby	6 May 1931	Sidney Herbert		Paul Latham		Resignation
Ashton-under-Lyne	30 April 1931^[2]	Albert Bellamy		John Broadbent		Death
Woolwich East	15 April 1931	Henry Snell		George Hicks		Elevation to the peerage
Sunderland	26 March 1931^[3]	Alfred Smith		Luke Thompson		Death
Pontypridd	19 March 1931	Thomas Isaac Mardy Jones		David Lewis Davies		Resignation
Westminster St George's	19 March 1931	Laming Worthington-Evans		Duff Cooper		Death
Salisbury	11 March 1931	Hugh Morrison				Resignation
Fermanagh and Tyrone	7 March 1931	Thomas Harbison		Cahir Healy		Death
Fareham	20 February 1931	John Davidson		Thomas Inskip		Resignation
Islington East	19 February 1931	Ethel Bentham		Leah Manning		Death
Liverpool East Toxteth	5 February 1931	Henry Mond		Patrick Buchan-Hepburn		Succession to the peerage
Bristol East	16 January 1931	Walter Baker		Stafford Cripps		Death
Whitechapel and St George's	3 December 1930	Harry Gosling		J. H. Hall		Death
East Renfrewshire	28 November 1930	Alexander Munro MacRobert		Douglas Douglas-Hamilton		Death
Shipley	6 November 1930	William Mackinder		James Lockwood		Death
Paddington South	30 October 1930^[4]	Douglas King		Ernest Taylor		Death
Bromley	2 September 1930	Cuthbert James		Edward Campbell		Death
North Norfolk	9 July 1930	Noel Buxton		Lucy Noel-Buxton		Elevation to the peerage
Glasgow Shettleston	26 June 1930	John Wheatley		John McGovern		Death
Nottingham Central	27 May 1930	Albert Bennett		Terence O'Connor		Resignation
Fulham West	6 May 1930	Ernest Spero		Cyril Cobb		Resignation
Sheffield Brightside	6 February 1930	Arthur Ponsonby		Fred Marshall		Elevated to the peerage
Liverpool Scotland	14 December 1929^[5] ^[6]	T. P. O'Connor		David Logan		Death
Tamworth	2 December 1929	Edward Iliffe		Arthur Steel-Maitland		Resignation
Kilmarnock	27 September 1929	Robert Climie		Craigie Aitchison		Death
Twickenham	8 August 1929	William Joynson-Hicks		John Ferguson		Elevated to the peerage
Leeds South East	1 August 1929	Henry Slesser		James Milner		Resignation
Preston	31 July 1929^[7]	William Jowitt		William Jowitt		Seeks re-election upon change of party allegiance
34th Parliament (1924–1929)
By-election	Date	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause
North Lanarkshire	21 March 1929^[8]	Alexander Sprot		Jennie Lee		Death
Holland with Boston	21 March 1929	Arthur Dean		James Blindell		Death
Bath	21 March 1929	Charles Foxcroft		Charles Baillie-Hamilton		Death
Eddisbury	20 March 1929	Harry Barnston		Richard John Russell		Death
Liverpool East Toxteth	19 March 1929	Albert Edward Jacob		Henry Mond		Death
Wansbeck	13 February 1929	George Warne		George Shield		Death
Bishop Auckland	7 February 1929	Ben Spoor		Ruth Dalton		Death
Battersea South	7 February 1929	Francis Curzon		William Bennett		Succession to the peerage
Londonderry	29 January 1929^[9]	Malcolm Macnaghten		Ronald Ross		Appointment as High Court judge
Midlothian and Peeblesshire Northern	29 January 1929^[10]	George Hutchison		Andrew Clarke		Death
Ashton-under-Lyne	29 October 1928	Cornelius Homan		Albert Bellamy		Declared bankrupt
Tavistock	11 October 1928	Philip Kenyon-Slaney		Wallace Duffield Wright		Death
Cheltenham	26 September 1928	James Agg-Gardner		Walter Preston		Death
Aberdeen North	16 August 1928	Frank Herbert Rose		William Wedgwood Benn		Death
Sheffield Hallam	16 July 1928	Frederick Sykes		Louis Smith		Appointed Governor of Bombay
Halifax	13 July 1928^[11]	John Henry Whitley		Arthur Longbottom		Resignation (retired as Speaker)
Epsom	4 July 1928	George Blades				Elevation to the peerage
Carmarthen	28 June 1928^[12]	Alfred Mond	/Conservative	William Nathaniel Jones		Elevation to the Hereditary Peerage
Holborn	28 June 1928	James Remnant		Stuart Bevan		Elevation to the peerage
St Marylebone	30 April 1928	Sir Douglas Hogg		Rennell Rodd		Hereditary Peerage on appointment as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
Hanley	23 April 1928	Samuel Clowes		Arthur Hollins		Death
Linlithgowshire	4 April 1928	James Kidd		Manny Shinwell		Death
Middlesbrough West	7 March 1928	Trevelyan Thomson		Frank Kingsley Griffith		Death
St Ives	6 March 1928	Anthony Hawke		Hilda Runciman		Appointment as a High Court Judge
Ilford	23 February 1928	Fredric Wise		George Hamilton		Death
Lancaster	9 February 1928	Gerald Strickland		Robert Parkinson Tomlinson		Elevation to the Hereditary Peerage
Bristol West	2 February 1928	George Gibbs		Cyril Culverwell		Elevation to the peerage
Faversham	25 January 1928	Granville Wheler		Adam Maitland		Death
Northampton	9 January 1928	Arthur Holland		Cecil L'Estrange Malone		Death
Canterbury	24 November 1927	Ronald McNeill		William Wayland		Elevation to the peerage
Southend	19 November 1927	Rupert Guinness		Gwendolen Guinness		Succession to the peerage
Brixton	27 June 1927	Davison Dalziel		Nigel Colman		Elevation to the peerage
Westbury	16 June 1927	Walter William Shaw		Richard Long		Death
Bosworth	31 May 1927	Robert Gee		William Edge		Resignation
Combined Scottish Universities	26–29 April 1927	Henry Craik		John Buchan		Death
Southwark North	28 March 1927^[13]	Leslie Haden-Guest		Edward Strauss		Sought re-election upon change of party allegiance
Leith	23 March 1927	William Wedgwood Benn		Ernest Brown		Resignation
Stourbridge	23 February 1927	Douglas Pielou		Wilfred Wellock		Death
Smethwick	21 December 1926	John Davison		Oswald Mosley		Resignation
Chelmsford	30 November 1926	Henry Curtis-Bennett		Charles Howard-Bury		Resignation
Kingston-upon-Hull Central	29 November 1926	Joseph Kenworthy		Joseph Kenworthy		Seeks re-election upon change of party allegiance
Howdenshire	25 November 1926	Stanley Jackson		William Carver		Resignation
North Cumberland	17 September 1926	Donald Howard		Fergus Graham		Succession to the peerage
Wallsend	21 July 1926	Patrick Hastings		Margaret Bondfield		Resignation
Hammersmith North	20 May 1926	Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett		James Patrick Gardner		Resignation
Buckrose	5 May 1926	Guy Gaunt		Albert Braithwaite		Resignation
East Ham North	29 April 1926	Charles Williamson Crook		Susan Lawrence		Death
Bothwell	26 March 1926	John Robertson		Joseph Sullivan		Death
Combined English Universities	8–12 March 1926^[14]	Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher		Alfred Hopkinson		Resignation
Darlington	17 February 1926	William Edwin Pease		Arthur Lewis Shepherd		Death
Cambridge University	13 February 1926^[15]	John Rawlinson		John James Withers		Death
East Renfrewshire	29 January 1926	Alexander Munro MacRobert		Alexander Munro MacRobert		Appointed Solicitor General for Scotland
Dunbartonshire	29 January 1926	David Fleming		John Thom		Appointed to the Court of Session
Ripon	5 December 1925	Edward Wood		John Waller Hills		Resignation
Bury St Edmunds	1 December 1925	Walter Guinness		Walter Guinness		Appointed Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries
Galloway	17 November 1925	Arthur Henniker-Hughan		Sidney Streatfield		Death
Stockport	17 September 1925^[16]	William Greenwood		Arnold Townend		Death
Forest of Dean	14 July 1925	James Wignall		A. A. Purcell		Death
Oldham	24 June 1925	Edward Grigg		William Wiggins		Resignation
Eastbourne	17 June 1925	George Lloyd		William Reginald Hall		Resignation
Ayr Burghs	12 June 1925	John Baird		Thomas Moore		Appointed Governor-General of Australia
Walsall	27 February 1925	William Preston		William Preston		Disqualification
Dundee	22 December 1924	E. D. Morel		Thomas Johnston		Death
33rd Parliament (1923–1924)
By-election	Date	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause
Carmarthen	14 August 1924	Ellis Ellis-Griffith		Alfred Mond		Resignation
Holland with Boston	31 July 1924^[17]	William Royce		Arthur Dean		Death
Lewes	9 July 1924	William Campion		Tufton Beamish		Appointment as Governor of Western Australia
Oxford	5 June 1924	Frank Gray		Robert Bourne		Election declared void
Glasgow Kelvingrove	23 May 1924	William Hutchison		Walter Elliot		Death
Liverpool West Toxteth	22 May 1924	Robert Houston		Joseph Gibbins		Resignation
Westminster Abbey	19 March 1924	John Nicholson		Otho Nicholson		Death
Dover	12 March 1924^[18]	John Astor		John Astor		Voted before taking the Oath of Allegiance
Burnley	28 February 1924	David Irving		Arthur Henderson		Death
City of London	1 February 1924	Frederick Banbury		Vansittart Bowater		Elevation to the peerage
32nd Parliament (1922–1923)
By-election	Date	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause
Yeovil	30 October 1923	Aubrey Herbert		George Davies		Death
Rutland and Stamford	30 October 1923	Charles Harvey Dixon		Neville Smith-Carington		Death
Portsmouth South	13 August 1923	Leslie Orme Wilson		Herbert Cayzer		Resignation
Leeds Central	26 July 1923	Arthur Wellesley Willey		Charles Henry Wilson		Death
Tiverton	21 June 1923^[19]	Herbert Sparkes		Francis Dyke Acland		Death
Morpeth	21 June 1923	John Cairns		Robert Smillie		Death
Berwick-upon-Tweed	31 May 1923	Hilton Philipson		Mabel Philipson		Void election (electoral fraud)
Ludlow	19 April 1923	Ivor Windsor-Clive		George Windsor-Clive		Succession to the peerage
Anglesey	7 April 1923	Owen Thomas	Labour	Robert Thomas		Death
Liverpool Edge Hill	6 March 1923	William Rutherford		Jack Hayes		Resignation
Mitcham	3 March 1923^[20]	Thomas Worsfold		James Chuter Ede		Resignation
Willesden East	3 March 1923	Harry Mallaby-Deeley		Harcourt Johnstone		Resignation
Darlington	28 February 1923	Herbert Pease		William Edwin Pease		Elevation to the peerage
Whitechapel and St George's	8 February 1923	Charles James Mathew		Harry Gosling		Death
Newcastle-upon-Tyne East	17 January 1923	Joseph Nicholas Bell		Arthur Henderson		Death
Portsmouth South	13 December 1922	Herbert Cayzer		Leslie Orme Wilson		Resignation
31st Parliament (1919–1922) Some precise party allegiances are difficult to determine as during this Parliament the Liberal and Conservative Parties were both divided over whether or not to continue support for the Lloyd George Coalition Government. Some opponents of the Coalition ran and/or sat as Independent Liberals or Conservatives respectively; however other opponents were able to secure official nominations. It is not always clear just where an individual MP or officially endorsed candidate stood on the Coalition at the point of election and there are several who appear to have given ambiguous information at the time or to have switched wings once in Parliament.
By-election	Date	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause
Newport (Monmouthshire)	18 October 1922^[21]	Lewis Haslam		Reginald Clarry		Death
Hackney South	18 August 1922^[22]	Horatio Bottomley		Clifford Erskine-Bolst		Expelled from the House (convicted of fraud)
Pontypridd	25 July 1922	Thomas Arthur Lewis		Thomas Isaac Mardy Jones		Appointed as a Junior Lord of the Treasury
North Down	21 July 1922^[23]	Henry Wilson		John Morrow Simms		Death (assassinated by IRA)
Gower	20 July 1922	John Williams		David Grenfell		Death
Nottingham East	29 June 1922	John David Rees		John Houfton		Death
Banbury	22 June 1922^[24]	Rhys Rhys-Williams		Rhys Rhys-Williams		Appointed Recorder of Cardiff
Moray and Nairn	21 June 1922^[25]	Archibald Williamson		Thomas Maule Guthrie		Elevation to the peerage
Newbury	10 June 1922^[26]	William Mount		Howard Clifton Brown		Resignation
North Londonderry	4 June 1922^[27]	Hugh T. Barrie		Malcolm Macnaghten		Death
City of London	19 May 1922	Arthur Balfour		Edward Grenfell		Elevation to the peerage
Clapham	9 May 1922^[28]	Arthur du Cros		John Leigh		Resignation
Leicester East	30 March 1922^[29]	Gordon Hewart		George Banton		Appointment as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Chertsey	24 March 1922	Donald MacMaster		Philip Richardson		Death
Inverness	16 March 1922	Thomas Brash Morison		Murdoch MacDonald		Resignation
Cambridge	16 March 1922	Eric Geddes		George Newton		Resignation
Liverpool Exchange	13 March 1922^[30]	Leslie Scott		Leslie Scott		Appointed as Solicitor General
Wolverhampton West	7 March 1922	Alfred Bird		Robert Bird		Death
Bodmin	24 February 1922	Charles Hanson		Isaac Foot		Death
North Down	21 February 1922^[31]	Thomas Watters Brown		Henry Wilson		Appointed to the High Court of Northern Ireland
Camberwell North	20 February 1922	Henry Newton Knights		Charles Ammon		Resignation (bankruptcy)
Manchester Clayton	18 February 1922	Edward Hopkinson		John Edward Sutton		Death
West Down	17 February 1922^[32]	Thomas Browne Wallace		Hugh Hayes		Appointed Chief Clerk to the High Court of Northern Ireland
South Londonderry	18 January 1922^[33]	Robert Chichester		William Hacket Pain		Death
Tamworth	17 January 1922	Henry Wilson-Fox		Percy Newson		Death
Ludlow	4 January 1922^[34]	Beville Stanier		Ivor Windsor-Clive		Death
Southwark South East	14 December 1921^[35]	James Arthur Dawes		Thomas Naylor		Death
Hornsey	10 November 1921	Kennedy Jones		William Ward		Death
Westhoughton	5 October 1921	William Wilson		Rhys Davies		Death
Louth	22 September 1921^[36]	Thomas Wintringham		Margaret Wintringham		Death
Lewisham West	13 September 1921	Edward Coates		Philip Dawson		Death
South Londonderry	29 August 1921^[37]	Denis Henry		Robert Chichester		Appointed Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
Westminster Abbey	25 August 1921	William Burdett-Coutts		John Sanctuary Nicholson		Death
Caerphilly	24 August 1921	Alfred Onions		Morgan Jones		Death
Hertford	16 July 1921	Noel Pemberton Billing		Murray Sueter	and Independent	Resignation (ill-health)
Heywood and Radcliffe	8 June 1921	Albert Illingworth		Walter Halls		Elevation to the peerage
Westminster St George's	7 July 1921^[38]	Walter Long		James Malcolm Monteith Erskine		Elevation to the peerage
West Down	5 July 1921^[39]	Daniel Martin Wilson		Thomas Browne Wallace		Appointed Recorder of Belfast
Mid Down	2 July 1921^[40]	James Craig		Robert Sharman-Crawford		Elected Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
Mid Armagh	23 June 1921^[41]	James Rolston Lonsdale		Henry Bruce Armstrong		Death
Belfast Duncairn	23 June 1921^[42]	Edward Carson		Thomas Edward McConnell		Appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
North Down	23 June 1921^[43]	Thomas Watters Brown		Thomas Watters Brown		Appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland
Orkney and Shetland	17 May 1921^[44]	Cathcart Wason		Malcolm Smith		Death
Abingdon	14 May 1921^[45]	John Tyson Wigan		Arthur Loyd		Resignation
Penrith and Cockermouth	13 May 1921	James Lowther		Cecil Lowther		Resignation
Hastings	4 May 1921	Laurance Lyon		Eustace Percy		Resignation
Chichester	23 April 1921^[46]	Edmund Talbot		William Bird		Resignation
Bedford	23 April 1921	Frederick Kellaway		Frederick Kellaway		Appointed Postmaster General
Bewdley	19 April 1921	Stanley Baldwin		Stanley Baldwin		Appointed President of the Board of Trade
Eddisbury	19 April 1921^[47]	Harry Barnston		Harry Barnston		Appointed Comptroller of the Household
East Dorset	16 April 1921^[48]	Frederick Guest		Frederick Guest		Appointed Secretary of State for Air
Glasgow Pollok	14 April 1921^[49]	John Gilmour		John Gilmour		Appointed Junior Lord of the Treasury
Bristol West	9 April 1921^[50]	George Gibbs		George Gibbs		Appointed Treasurer of the Household
Taunton	8 April 1921	Dennis Boles		Arthur Griffith-Boscawen		Resignation
Birmingham West	31 March 1921^[51]	Austen Chamberlain		Austen Chamberlain		Appointed Lord Privy Seal
Penistone	5 March 1921	Sydney Arnold		William Gillis		Resignation
Kirkcaldy Burghs	4 March 1921	Henry Dalziel		Tom Kennedy		Resignation
Birmingham Moseley	4 March 1921^[52]	Hallewell Rogers		Patrick Hannon		Resignation
Dudley	3 March 1921	Arthur Griffith-Boscawen		James Wilson		Appointment as Minister of Agriculture
Woolwich East	2 March 1921	Will Crooks		Robert Gee		Death
Cardiganshire	18 February 1921	Matthew Vaughan-Davies		Ernest Evans		Elevated to the peerage
Dover	12 January 1921^[53]	Vere Ponsonby		Thomas Andrew Polson		Succession to the Peerage
Hereford	11 January 1921	Charles Pulley		Samuel Roberts		Resignation
Abertillery	21 December 1920	William Brace		George Barker		Resignation
Rhondda West	21 December 1920	William Abraham		William John		Resignation
Middleton and Prestwich	22 November 1920^[54]	William Adkins		William Adkins		Appointed Recorder of Birmingham
The Wrekin	20 November 1920^[55]	Charles Frederick Palmer		C. V. F. Townshend		Death
Hemel Hempstead	9 November 1920^[56]	Gustavus Talbot		J. C. C. Davidson		Death
Ilford	25 September 1920	William Peter Griggs		Fredric Wise		Death
Woodbridge	28 July 1920	Robert Francis Peel		Arthur Churchman		Resignation
South Norfolk	27 July 1920^[57]	William Cozens-Hardy		George Edwards		Succession to the peerage
Ebbw Vale	26 July 1920^[58]	Thomas Richards		Evan Davies		Resignation
Nelson and Colne	17 June 1920	Albert Smith		Robinson Graham		Resignation
Louth	3 June 1920	Henry Langton Brackenbury		Thomas Wintringham		Death
Sunderland	24 April 1920	Hamar Greenwood		Hamar Greenwood		Appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland
Edinburgh North	9 April 1920	James Avon Clyde		Patrick Ford		Resignation
Edinburgh South	9 April 1920	Charles Murray		Charles Murray		Appointed Solicitor General for Scotland
Northampton	1 April 1920	Charles McCurdy		Charles McCurdy		Appointed Minister of Food Control
Basingstoke	31 March 1920	Auckland Geddes		Arthur Holbrook		Resignation
Camberwell North West	31 March 1920	Thomas James McNamara		Thomas James McNamara		Appointed Minister of Labour
Dartford	27 March 1920^[59]	James Rowlands		John Edmund Mills		Death
Stockport	27 March 1920	Spencer Leigh Hughes		Henry Fildes		Death
		George Wardle		William Greenwood		Resignation
Argyll	10 March 1920	William Sutherland		William Sutherland		Appointed as a Junior Lord of the Treasury
Horncastle	25 February 1920	William Weigall		Stafford Vere Hotchkin		Appointed Governor of South Australia
Paisley	12 February 1920	John Mills McCallum		H. H. Asquith		Death
The Wrekin	7 February 1920	Charles Solomon Henry		Charles Frederick Palmer		Death
Ashton-under-Lyne	31 January 1920	Albert Stanley		Walter de Frece		Elevation to the peerage
Spen Valley	20 December 1919^[60]	Thomas Whittaker		Tom Myers		Death
Bromley	17 December 1919	Henry Forster		Cuthbert James		Elevation to the peerage
St Albans	10 December 1919	Hildred Carlile		Francis Fremantle		Resignation
Plymouth Sutton	28 November 1919^[61]	Waldorf Astor		Nancy Astor		Succession to the peerage
Isle of Thanet	15 November 1919	Norman Carlyle Craig		Esmond Harmsworth		Death
Croydon South	14 November 1919	Ian Malcolm		Allan Smith		Resignation
Chester-le-Street	13 November 1919	John Wilkinson Taylor		Jack Lawson		Resignation
Manchester Rusholme	7 October 1919	Robert Burdon Stoker		John Henry Thorpe		Death
Pontefract	6 September 1919	Joseph Compton-Rickett		Walter Forrest		Death
Widnes	30 August 1919	William Walker		Arthur Henderson		Elevation to the peerage
Dublin University	28 July 1919^[62]	Arthur Warren Samuels		William Morgan Jellett		Appointed to the Irish High Court
Bothwell	16 July 1919	David Macdonald		John Robertson		Death
Swansea East	10 July 1919	Thomas Jeremiah Williams		David Matthews		Death
East Antrim	27 May 1919^[63]	Robert McCalmont		George Boyle Hanna	nionist	Appointed Commander of the Irish Guards
Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire Central	16 April 1919	Alexander Theodore Gordon		Murdoch McKenzie Wood		Death
Kingston upon Hull Central	29 March 1919	Mark Sykes		Joseph Kenworthy		Death
Oxford University	19–24 March 1919	Rowland Prothero		Charles Oman		Elevation to the peerage
North Londonderry	4 March 1919	Hugh Anderson		Hugh T. Barrie		Resignation
Leyton West	1 March 1919	Harry Wrightson		Alfred Newbould		Death
Liverpool West Derby	26 February 1919	Sir F. E. Smith		William Reginald Hall		Hereditary Peerage on appointment as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain

1. An uncontested by-election. The Guildford by-election was initially contested but on 25 August the Liberal candidate withdrew, in light of the changed political situation due to the formation of the National Government the previous day.
2. Retained at the 1931 general election.
3. [Sunderland (UK Parliament constituency)|Sunderland]
4. Taylor joined the Conservative Party in 1931, holding the seat at the 1931 general election.
5. An uncontested by-election. The Guildford by-election was initially contested but on 25 August the Liberal candidate withdrew, in light of the changed political situation due to the formation of the National Government the previous day.
6. A rare case of a gain in an unopposed election. O'Connor had an ad hoc group of supporters in the constituency who helped his campaign at election times, and Logan had been extensively involved in the Irish nationalist movement in his youth.
7. [Preston (UK Parliament constituency)|Preston]
8. Gain retained at the 1929 general election.
9. An uncontested election.
10. Gain not retained at the 1929 general election.
11. Prior to his elevation to Speaker of the House of Commons, John Henry Whitley had been a Liberal MP.
12. [Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett|Alfred Mond]
13. Haden-Guest left the Labour Party and sought re-election as a Constitutionalist, but the seat was gained by the Liberals. In the 1929 general election the seat was regained by the Labour Party.
14. The Combined English Universities was a two-member constituency. In the 1924 general election it elected one Conservative and one Liberal. The Conservatives gained the Liberal seat but in the 1929 general election the two seats were won by one Conservative and one Independent (Eleanor Rathbone).
15. An uncontested election.
16. [Stockport (UK Parliament constituency)|Stockport]
17. Gain retained at the 1924 general election.
18. An uncontested by-election.
19. Gain retained at the 1923 general election.
20. Gain not retained at the 1923 general election.
21. Gain retained at the 1922 general election.
22. [Horatio Bottomley]
23. An uncontested by-election.
24. An uncontested by-election.
25. An uncontested by-election.
26. An uncontested by-election.
27. An uncontested by-election.
28. An uncontested by-election.
29. Gain not retained at the 1922 general election.
30. An uncontested by-election.
31. An uncontested by-election.
32. An uncontested by-election.
33. An uncontested by-election.
34. An uncontested by-election.
35. The seat was regained at the 1922 general election by the National Liberals, as the Coalition Liberals were restyled following the end of the Coalition.
36. [Thomas Wintringham (Liberal politician)|Thomas Wintringham]
37. An uncontested by-election.
38. Erskine was the nominee of the Anti-Waste League. In the 1922 general election he was also supported by the St. George's, Hannover Square, Independent Conservative Association who were in dispute with the official Conservative Association in the constituency. During the 1922-1923 Parliament Erskine came to sit as an official Conservative and retained the seat as such in subsequent elections.
39. An uncontested by-election.
40. An uncontested by-election.
41. An uncontested by-election.
42. An uncontested by-election.
43. An uncontested by-election.
44. An uncontested by-election.
45. An uncontested by-election.
46. An uncontested by-election.
47. An uncontested by-election.
48. An uncontested by-election.
49. An uncontested by-election.
50. An uncontested by-election.
51. An uncontested by-election.
52. An uncontested by-election.
53. At the time of his election Polson was supported by Horatio Bottomley who formed the Independent Parliamentary Group in Parliament. Shortly after election he joined the newly formed Anti-Waste League. He unsuccessfully defended his seat in the 1922 general election as an Independent Conservative, losing to an official Conservative candidate.
54. An uncontested by-election.
55. [The Wrekin (historic UK Parliament constituency)|The Wrekin]
56. An uncontested by-election.
57. [George Edwards (UK politician)|George Edwards]
58. An uncontested by-election.
59. [John Edmund Mills]
60. [Spen Valley (UK Parliament constituency)|Spen Valley]
61. Web site: Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20040818145723/http://www.qub.ac.uk/cawp/UKhtmls/RecordsUK.htm . 18 August 2004 .
62. An uncontested by-election.
63. Due to the establishment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, the number of constituencies for Northern Ireland was substantially reduced from the 1922 general election. East Antrim was absorbed into the larger two-member Antrim constituency, which at the 1922 election was won by two official Ulster Unionists.

References

• • F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Statistics 1832-1987
• F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-49
• F. W. S. Craig, Chronology of British Parliamentary By-elections 1833-1987