1915 Thirsk and Malton by-election

UK parliamentary by-election April 2022 June 2025 The 1915 Thirsk and Malton by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 12 February 1915 for the British House of Commons constituency of Thirsk and Malton in the North Riding of Yorkshire. The seat had become vacant when the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament Viscount Helmsley succeeded to the peerage as the 2nd Earl of Feversham. He had held the seat since the 1906 general election. The Conservative candidate, 57-year-old Edmund Turton, was returned unopposed and held the seat until his death at the age of 71, three weeks before the 1929 general election. This was the only by-election held in the Thirsk & Malton constituency, which was created in 1885 and abolished in 1983. However, at the 2010 general election, the death of a candidate forced the parliamentary election in the current Thirsk & Malton constituency to be delayed, so that it was held three weeks later than in every other constituency. See also The town of Thirsk List of United Kingdom by-elections References Craig F. W. S. F. W. S. Craig British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 1974 2nd 1989 Parliamentary Research Services Chichester 0-900178-27-2 429 March 2012 Category:1915 in England Category:1915 elections in the United Kingdom Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in North Yorkshire constituencies Category:Unopposed by-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom Category:Ryedale Category:Politics of the Borough of Scarborough Category:1910s in Yorkshire Category:February 1915 in the United Kingdom