1918 Waterford City by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 August 2019 The 1918 Waterford City by-election was held on 22 March 1918.Craig F.W.S. 1987 Chronology of British Parliamentary By-elections 1833–1987 Chichester Parliamentary Research Services 301Walker Brian Mercer Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922 Dublin 1978 Royal Irish Academy 185 0-901714-12-7 1919 The Constitutional Year Book for 1919 https://archive.org/details/constitutional1919londuoft/ London National Unionist Association 339 The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Irish Parliamentary MP, John Redmond. The Irish Parliamentary candidate William Redmond,May 2021 his son, defeated Vincent White, the Sinn Féin candidate, by 1,242 votes to 745.Waterford Election Result Irish Times 30 March 1918 Redmond had resigned his seat in East Tyrone to contest the seat.The Waterford Election Cork Examiner 15 March 1918 Redmond campaigned in his army uniform and wearing a black armband. His victory was the second defeat of Sinn Féin at by-elections and gave a temporary boost to the morale of supporters of the Irish Parliamentary Party. He retained his seat in the general election of December that year, continuing to sit at Westminster rather than taking part in the First Dáil. By-election 29 March 1918: Waterford CityWaterford Election Result Irish Times 30 March 1918 Irish Parliamentary Party William Redmond 1,242 62.5 N/A Sinn Féin Vincent White 745 37.5 New 497 25.0 N/A 1,987 66.9 N/A Irish Parliamentary Party N/A References Waterford City by-election Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in County Waterford constituencies Category:Politics of Waterford (city) Waterford City by-election Waterford City by-election