1919 Plymouth Sutton by-election explained

Election Name:1919 Plymouth Sutton by-election
Type:presidential
Country:United Kingdom
Previous Election:Plymouth Sutton (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1910s
Previous Year:1918
Next Election:Plymouth Sutton (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1920s
Next Year:1922
Election Date:28 November 1919
Candidate1:Nancy Astor
Party1:Unionist Party (UK)
Popular Vote1:14,495
Percentage1:51.9%
Candidate2:W.T. Gay
Party2:Labour Party (UK)
Popular Vote2:9,292
Percentage2:33.3%
Candidate3:Isaac Foot
Party3:Liberal Party (UK)
Popular Vote3:4,139
Percentage3:14.8%
Map Size:250px
MP
Posttitle:Subsequent MP
Before Election:Waldorf Astor
Before Party:Unionist Party (UK)
After Election:Nancy Astor
After Party:Unionist Party (UK)

The 1919 Plymouth Sutton by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 28 November 1919[1] for the British House of Commons constituency of Sutton in the city of Plymouth, Devon.

The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Waldorf Astor, succeeded the peerage as the second Viscount Astor on the death of his father on 18 October 1919.

Astor had held the seat since the 1918 general election, and its predecessor Plymouth since the December 1910 general election.

Candidates

Result

Lady Astor retained the seat. She became the first woman to take up her seat in the Commons (the first woman to be elected, Countess Markievicz, the Sinn Féin MP for Dublin St Patrick's, refused to take her seat).

See also

References

  1. Web site: Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics . 2010-11-29 . 2016-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233426/http://www.qub.ac.uk/cawp/UKhtmls/RecordsUK.htm . dead .
  2. Joyce Bellamy, "Mercer, Thomas William (1884-1947)", Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.I, pp.238-239