1907 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election

English parliamentary by-election April 2022 The 1907 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election was a by-election held in England on 27 September 1907 for the British House of Commons constituency of Liverpool Kirkdale, a division of the city of Liverpool. Vacancy The seat had become vacant when the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), David MacIver had died on 1 September 1907, aged 67. Death of a Member of Parliament http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/338/266/160716609w16/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS117634338&dyn=5 The Times 2 September 1907 7 30 August 2012 He had held the seat since being elected unopposed at a by-election in 1898, Election Intelligence. Liverpool (Kirkdale Division) http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/338/708/160689002w16/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS101774652&dyn=25 The Times 28 September 1907 6 30 August 2012Craig F. W. S. F. W. S. Craig British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 1989 2nd 1983 Parliamentary Research Services Chichester 0-900178-27-2 142 having previously been MP for Birkenhead from 1874 to 1885. Debrett's House of Commons, and the Judicial Bench 1901 Dean & Son London 97 https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1901londuoft#page/158 30 August 2012 General election, January 1906 10,596 6,284 65.2 +8.4 592 8.6 −34.2 hold David MacIver Conservative Party (UK) 3,749 54.3 −17.1 James Conley Labour Representation Committee (1900) 3,157 45.7 New Candidates The Liberal Unionist candidate was 63-year-old Charles McArthur, who had been the MP for Liverpool Exchange from 1897 until his defeat at the 1906 general election. right|thumb|John Hill The Labour Party candidate was 42-year-old John Hill, a Scottish trade unionist who unsuccessfully contested Glasgow Govan at the 1906 general election. Result On a slightly increased turnout, the result was a victory for McArthur, who slightly increased his majority of that won by McIver in 1906. By-election, September 1907 death of MacIver 10,529 7,330 69.6 +4.4 670 9.2 +0.6 hold 0.3 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Charles MacArthur Conservative Party (UK) 4,000 54.6 +0.3 John Hill Labour Party (UK) 3,330 45.4 −0.3 Aftermath McArthur held the seat at the January 1910 general election, but died in office later that year, triggering another by-election. Hill did not stand for Parliament again, but became general secretary of the United Society of Boilermakers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders in 1909, and served as President of the Trades Union Congress in 1917. See also Liverpool Kirkdale constituency Kirkdale, Merseyside 1898 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election 1910 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election 1915 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election List of United Kingdom by-elections (1900–1918) References Kirkdale, 1907 Category:1907 elections in the United Kingdom Category:1907 in England Category:September 1907 in the United Kingdom Category:1900s in Liverpool