The Hythe by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
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Electoral history
Sassoon was returned unopposed at the previous election. The previous election to that was contested and the result was as follows;
Candidates
Sir Edward Albert Sassoon
S Moorhouse
Result
Sassoon held his seat, however compared with the January 1910 election result, his Unionist majority dropped slightly;
Aftermath
A General Election was due to take place by the end of 1915. By the autumn of 1914, the following candidate had been adopted to contest that election;
Due to the outbreak of war, the election didn't take place until 1918;
References
Hythe by-election, 1912 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA