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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.
Another by-election occurred in Keighley in 1915 when Buckmaster accepted a seat in the House of Lords.
References
Keighley by-election, 1913 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA