1907 Jarrow by-election

UK parliamentary by-election November 2019 1907 Jarrow by-election presidential United Kingdom Jarrow (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1900s 1906 Jarrow (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1910s Jan. 1910 4 July 1907 Curran 65px Labour Party (UK) 4,698 33.0% Rose-Innes Conservative Party (UK) 3,930 27.6% Hughes 65px Liberal Party (UK) 3,474 24.4% O'Hanlon Irish Parliamentary Party 2,122 14.9% 250px MP Subsequent MP Sir Charles Palmer Liberal Party (UK) Pete Curran Labour Party (UK) The 1907 Jarrow by-election was held on 4 July 1907. Vacancy The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Liberal MP, Charles Palmer.May 2021 Electoral history At the 1906 general election Palmer had had a straight fight with Labour; thumb|120px|Palmer General election 1906: Jarrow Liberal Party (UK) Charles Palmer 8,047 61.2 Labour Representation Committee (1900) Pete Curran 5,093 38.8 2,954 22.4 13,140 77.2 Liberal Party (UK) Candidates The sitting Liberal MP, the 84-year-old Sir Charles Palmer, had announced that he did not intend to stand for Parliament at the next election and the local Liberals had already selected Spencer Leigh Hughes as his replacement.The Times, 23 May 1907 p7 Hughes’ opportunity to get into Parliament came quickly as Sir Charles died on 4 June 1907 thus causing a by-election at which Hughes was adopted as Liberal candidate. Hughes faced, Labour, Conservative and Irish Parliamentary Party opponents.F. W. S. Craig British Parliamentary Election Results, 1885–1918 Macmillan Press London 1974 271 0-333-16903-4 Result thumb|120px|Curran Jarrow by-election, 1907 Labour Party (UK) Pete Curran 4,698 33.0 -5.8 Conservative Party (UK) Patrick Rose-Innes 3,930 27.6 New Liberal Party (UK) Spencer Leigh Hughes 3,474 24.4 -36.8 Irish Parliamentary Party John O'Hanlon 2,122 14.9 New 768 5.4 N/A 14,224 82.7 +5.5 Labour Party (UK) Liberal Party (UK) Aftermath For Curran, it was a short-lived triumph as he was unseated by another Liberal at the following General Election in January 1910. Rose-Innes did not stand for Parliament again. In 1909 Hughes was the unsuccessful Liberal candidate at the 1909 Bermondsey by-election. The Irish Nationalists never again ran a candidate in Jarrow. General election January 1910: JarrowTimes House of Commons, 1910; Politico's Publishing, 2004, p. 62 Liberal Party (UK) Godfrey Mark Palmer 4,885 34.0 +9.4 Labour Party (UK) Pete Curran 4,818 33.5 +0.4 Conservative Party (UK) James Kirkley 4,668 32.5 +4.9 67 0.5 N/A 14,371 78.6 -4.1 Liberal Party (UK) Labour Party (UK) +4.5 External links Regional Identities in North-East England, 1300-2000 https://books.google.com/books?id=OITlDsCSeMcC&q=Regional+Identities+in+North-East+England,+1300-2000 Adrian Green A. J. Pollard The Boydell Press Woodbridge, Suffolk 2007 978-1-84383-335-2 References Category:1907 elections in the United Kingdom Category:1907 in England Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in County Durham constituencies Category:Elections in Tyne and Wear Category:20th century in County Durham Category:Jarrow