1921 Caerphilly by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election May 2025 May 2025 1921 Caerphilly by-election presidential United Kingdom Caerphilly (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1910s 1918 Caerphilly (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1920s 1922 24 August 1921 Jones 65px Welsh Labour 13,699 54.2% Edmunds Liberal Party (UK) 8,958 35.5% Stewart Communist Party of Great Britain 2,592 10.3% 250px MP Subsequent MP Onions Welsh Labour Jones Welsh Labour The 1921 Caerphilly by-election was held on 24 August 1921. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Labour MP, Alfred Onions. It was held for Labour by Morgan Jones.http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20080607022521/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm 7 June 2008 Leigh Rayment - Commons usurped leighrayment.com Candidates and campaign Morgan Jones clinched the Labour nomination despite not being the preferred candidate of the South Wales Miners' Federation. He was the first conscientious objector to be elected to Parliament after World War I.Williams Chris 2004 Jones, Morgan (1885–1939) http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/66804?docPos=3 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press Oxford 10.1093/ref:odnb/66804 subscription The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) stood Bob Stewart, a member of its executive committee. The party had been founded in 1920, and this was its first Parliamentary election. It sent almost all its leading figures to campaign in the election.Klugmann James History of the Communist Party of Great Britain 1968 Lawrence and Wishart London 182–183 Result Jones won an easy victory, with Edmunds in second, and the CPGB a distant third. 1921 Caerphilly by-electionCraig, F. W. S. (1969). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (1 ed.). Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. 0-900178-019. Page 557 Welsh Labour Morgan Jones 13,699 54.2 -0.6 Liberal Party (UK) William Rees Edmunds 8,958 35.5 -9.7 Communist Party of Great Britain Bob Stewart 2,592 10.3 N/A 4,741 18.7 +9.1 25,249 73.2 +9.2 34,511 Welsh Labour +4.5 References Category:1921 in Wales Category:1920s elections in Wales Category:Caerphilly Category:1921 elections in the United Kingdom Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Welsh constituencies Category:August 1921 in the United Kingdom