1907 Kingston upon Hull West by-election

UK parliamentary by-election April 2022 1907 Kingston upon Hull West by-election presidential United Kingdom Kingston upon Hull West (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1900s 1906 Kingston upon Hull West (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1910s Jan. 1910 11 November 1907 Wilson 65px Liberal Party (UK) 5,623 36.2% Bartley 65px Conservative Party (UK) 5,382 34.7% Holmes 65px Labour Party (UK) 4,512 29.1% 250px MP Subsequent MP Charles Wilson Liberal Party (UK) Guy Wilson Liberal Party (UK) The 1907 Kingston upon Hull West by-election was a parliamentary by-election held in England for the UK House of Commons constituency of Kingston upon Hull West on 11 November 1907. The seat had been held for the Liberal Party by members of the Wilson family since its creation in 1885, and the by-election was won by the Liberal candidate Guy Wilson, who was the brother of the outgoing Member of Parliament (MP). Vacancy thumb|120px The seat had become vacant when the sitting MP Charles Wilson succeeded to his father's peerage as the 2nd Baron Nunburnholme. He had held the seat for less than two years, having been elected at the 1906 general election after the retirement from the Commons of his father Charles Henry Wilson, who had held the seat since 1885.h 4 March 2012 Candidates Three candidates contested the seat. The Liberal candidate Guy Wilson was a former officer in the British Army, and a director of the family shipping company Thomas Wilson Sons & Co. The Conservative Party candidate was Sir George Trout Bartley, a cockneyLondon leaders : historic families, ancestral estates https://archive.org/stream/londonleadershis00lond#page/n335/mode/2up/search/george+trout+bartley 1907 Allan North London 334–337 who had been the founder of the National Penny Bank and was MP for Islington North from 1885i March 2012 until his defeat in 1906.Craig F. W. S. F. W. S. Craig British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 1974 2nd 1989 Parliamentary Research Services Chichester 0-900178-27-2 24 The Labour Party nominated a candidate for the first time: James Holmes, who had been an unsuccessful candidate in Birmingham East at the 1906 general election. Result 1907 Kingston upon Hull West by-electionCraig, 1885-1918, page 130. Liberal Party (UK) Guy Wilson 5,623 36.2 −21.3 Conservative Party (UK) George Trout Bartley 5,382 34.7 −7.8 Labour Party (UK) James Holmes 4,512 29.1 New 241 1.5 −13.5 15,517 75.4 +0.8 Liberal Party (UK) -6.8 Aftermath Bartley did not stand for Parliament again. Wilson held the seat (with much increased majorities) until the constituency was abolished in 1918. He then rejected the coalition coupon which he had been given, and was heavily defeated at the 1918 general election.Craig F. W. S. F. W. S. Craig British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 1969 3rd 1983 Parliamentary Research Services Chichester 0-900178-06-X 157 The Labour Party did not contest Kingston upon Hull West again in either of the 1910 elections. Holmes stood again only one more time, at the Crewe by-election in July 1912, but came a poor third.Craig, 1885–1918, page 231. References See also Kingston upon Hull West by-election Kingston upon Hull West by-election Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Yorkshire and the Humber constituencies Category:Elections in Kingston upon Hull Category:1900s in the East Riding of Yorkshire Kingston upon Hull West by-election Category:20th century in Kingston upon Hull