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Keighley by election, 1913

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Keighley by-election, 1913

The Keighley by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

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Vacancy

Buckmaster was appointed Solicitor General and required to fight another by-election.

Candidates

Stanley Buckmaster

Viscount Lascelles

William Bland

Aftermath

A General Election was due to take place by the end of 1915. By the summer of 1914, the following candidates had been adopted to contest that election. Due to the outbreak of war, the election never took place.

  • The Yorkshire branch of the Independent Labour Party were keen to run a candidate.

    • Another by-election occurred in Keighley in 1915 when Buckmaster accepted a seat in the House of Lords.

    References

    Keighley by-election, 1913 Wikipedia
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