1908 Pembrokeshire by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 May 2022 1908 Pembrokeshire by-election presidential United Kingdom Pembrokeshire (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1900s 1906 Pembrokeshire (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1910s Jan. 1910 16 July 1908 Roch 85px Liberal Party (UK) 5,465 62.4% Williams 85px Conservative Party (UK) 3,293 37.6% 250px MP Subsequent MP John Philipps Liberal Party (UK) Walter Roch Liberal Party (UK) The 1908 Pembrokeshire by-election was held on 16 July 1908. The by-election was held due to the elevation to the peerage of the incumbent Liberal MP, John Wynford Philipps. It was won by the Liberal candidate Walter Roch.http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20080607022521/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm 7 June 2008 House of Commons dead www.leighrayment.com Campaign Roch had the support of the MPs W. Llewelyn Williams and W. Jones of the United Kingdom Alliance and the Free Trade League respectively. The Miners' Federation of Great Britain also strongly supported Roch. Lort Williams, the Conservative candidate, was supported by emissaries from the Tariff Reform League and the National Trade Defence Association.PEMBROKE VACANCY Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser 4 July 1908 4 February 2016 http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000206/19080704/087/0007 British Newspaper Archive subscription A formidable group of Suffragettes (including Emmeline Pankhurst) came to Pembrokeshire to campaign against Roch, not because they disliked him, or supported Lort-Williams, but because H.H. Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister, was immovably opposed to the enfranchisement of women.Use your vote: the Suffragette movement in Pembrokeshire remembered, Western Telegraph, by Joanna Sayers, 10 April 2015 Result 1908 Pembrokeshire by-electionCraig, F. W. S. (1974). British parliamentary election results 1885-1918 (1 ed.). London and Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press Ltd. 9780333169032. Page 487 Liberal Party (UK) Walter Roch 5,465 62.4 -6.9 Conservative Party (UK) John Lort-Williams 3,293 37.6 +6.9 2,172 24.8 -13.8 8,758 77.3 +2.3 11,331 Liberal Party (UK) -6.9 References Pembrokeshire by-election Pembrokeshire by-election Category:1900s elections in Wales Category:20th century in Pembrokeshire Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Welsh constituencies Category:Elections in Pembrokeshire Pembrokeshire by-election