1900 Manchester South by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election March 2023 March 2023 The 1900 Manchester South by-election was held on 25 May 1900. The seat had become vacant when the Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament, the Marquess of Lorne had succeeded to the peerage as Duke of Argyll on the death of his father, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll on 24 April 1900. The Marquess of Lorne had been Member of Parliament for the constituency since 1895. Candidates The Liberal Unionist candidate was William Peel. Peel was the son of Arthur Peel, 1st Viscount Peel. Peel had been the London County Council member for Woolwich since a by-election on 24 February 1900.London County Council election at Woolwich 26 February 1900 7 36075 Peel represented the Municipal Reform Party on the L.C.C. which was aligned with the Conservative Party.Lord Peel, Family Tradition Of Statesmanship, The Times, 30 September 1937, p. 14http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35453 Peel, William Robert Wellesley, first Earl Peel (1867–1937) 12 October 2008 Alex May 2004 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press The Liberal Party candidate was Leif Jones. Jones was the secretary to Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle, and an executive member of the United Kingdom Alliance, a temperance movement.Blocker, Jr. Jack Fahey David M. Tyrrell Ian R. 2003 Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia One: A-L Jones, Leif (1862-1939) https://archive.org/details/alcoholtemperanc0001unse_2003/ Santa Barbara, California ABL-CLIO, Inc. 340–341 1-57607-833-7 Jones had contested Westminster in 1892 and Leeds Central in 1895 as a Liberal candidate. Result The Liberal Unionist Party held the seat with a greatly increased majority. 1900 Manchester South by-electionCraig F.W.S. F. W. S. Craig 1974 British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918 https://books.google.com/books?id=ah2vCwAAQBAJ London and Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 152 978-1-349-02300-4 1908 The Liberal Year Book for 1908 https://archive.org/details/liberalyearbook01unkngoog/ London The Liberal Publication Department 304–305 1919 The Constitutional Year Book for 1919 https://archive.org/details/constitutional1919londuoft/ London National Unionist Association 302 Liberal Unionist Party William Peel 5,497 61.4 +11.0 Liberal Party (UK) Leifchild Jones 3,458 38.6 −11.0 2,039 22.8 +22.0 8,955 76.0 −4.7 11,788 Liberal Unionist Party +11.0 References Manchester South by-election Manchester South, 1900 Category:1900 in England Category:1900s in Manchester Category:May 1900 in the United Kingdom