1913 Flint Boroughs by-election

UK parliamentary by-election in Wales December 2022 December 2022 June 2025 The 1913 Flint Boroughs by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 21 January 1913.Craig F.W.S. 1987 Chronology of British Parliamentary By-elections 1833–1987 Chichester Parliamentary Research Services 108 The constituency returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system. Vacancy James Summers who had been Liberal MP for Flint Boroughs since January 1910, died on 1 January 1913. Previous result General election December 1910 Liberal Party (UK) James Woolley Summers 2,098 56.9 +1.4 Conservative Party (UK) Henry Richard Lloyd Howard 1,589 43.1 -1.4 509 13.8 +2.8 3,687 90.8 -4.6 4,060 Liberal Party (UK) +1.4 Candidates The Liberals selected Thomas Parry to defend the seat. The constituency included Parry's home town of Mold where he was a prominent lawyer.June 2025 Campaign The Liberals had held the seat since gaining it from the Conservatives in 1847.June 2025 Result The Liberal Party held the seat with a reduced majority. thumb|120px|Thomas Parry 1913 Flint Boroughs by-election1974 Craig F. W. S. British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02298-4 10.1007/978-1-349-02298-4 2027/mdp.39015032111430 978-1-349-02300-4 457 Liberal Party (UK) Thomas Henry Parry 2,152 52.6 -4.3 Unionist Party (UK) J. Hamlet Roberts 1,941 47.4 +4.3 211 5.2 -8.6 4,093 94.1 +3.3 4,350 Liberal Party (UK) -4.3 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.Elections and Registration Act 1915, 5 & 6 Geo. 5. c. 76. General Election 1914/15 Liberal Party (UK) Thomas Henry Parry Unionist Party (UK) J. Hamlet Roberts 4,560 The constituency disappeared in boundary changes in 1918 so Parry transferred to the county seat of Flintshire. Parry received the coalition government coupon at the 1918 general election and was returned unopposedThe Constitutional Year Book National Unionist Association of Conservative and Liberal Unionist Organizations, Conservative Central Office 1929 262 References Further reading Debrett's House of Commons 1916 Category:1913 in Wales Category:1910s elections in Wales Category:1913 elections in the United Kingdom Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Welsh constituencies Category:History of Flintshire Category:January 1913 in the United Kingdom