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1899 Bow and Bromley by-election
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UK Parliamentary by-election
March 2023
March 2023
The 1899 Bow and Bromley by-election was held on 27 October 1899 following the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, Lionel Holland due to ill health."News in Brief". The Times, 18 October 1899: 10. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 26 September 2013.Web citation needs a URL November 2019 Holland vacated his Parliamentary seat by being appointed Steward of the Manor of Northstead on 16 October 1899. 27127 17 October 1899 6269
The seat was retained by the Conservative candidate Walter Guthrie.
Contemporary sources state that the by-election was fought on the issue of the Second Boer War which had broken out earlier that month, with Guthrie supporting the Government and Spender opposing the war. October 28, 1899 The War in the Bye-Elections https://www.nytimes.com/1899/10/28/archives/the-war-in-the-byeelections-conservative-elected-in-london-by.html New York Times 2 New York, N.Y. 6 March 2023 November 2, 1899 London, October 28, 2.25 p.m. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/32202203/4465890 The Kalgoorlie Western Argus 8 Kalgoorlie, Western Australia 6 March 2023
1899 Bow and Bromley 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 51 978-1-349-02300-4 1908 The Liberal Year Book for 1908 https://archive.org/details/liberalyearbook01unkngoog/ London The Liberal Publication Department 350–351 1919 The Constitutional Year Book for 1919 https://archive.org/details/constitutional1919londuoft/ London National Unionist Association 288
Conservative Party (UK) Walter Guthrie 4,238 66.6 +8.9
Liberal Party (UK) Harold Spender 2,123 33.4 -8.9
2,115 33.2 +17.8
6,361 55.8 -15.2
11,401
Conservative Party (UK) +8.9
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