1922 Cambridge by-election

UK parliamentary by-election June 2025 1922 Cambridge by-election parliamentary United Kingdom 1918 United Kingdom general election 1918 1922 United Kingdom general election 1922 (GE) 16 March 1922 George Newton Con Conservative Party (UK) 10,897 48.69% Hugh Dalton x160px Labour Party (UK) 6,954 31.07% MP Subsequent MP Eric Geddes Conservative Party (UK) George Newton Conservative Party (UK) 80.4% ( 19.5%) Lib 4,529 20.24% Sydney Cope Morgan Liberal Party (UK) 26.61% 6.37% black New 27,833 Constituency of CambridgeNovember 2019 The 1922 Cambridge by-election was a by-election held on 16 March 1922 for the British House of Commons constituency of Cambridge. The by-election was caused by the resignation on 7 November 1921 of the town's Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) Sir Eric Geddes, who had held the seat since 1917, and had come under criticism as Minister of Transport for the scale of nationalisation he had overseen, and over charges of departmental inefficiency. He chose to resign as both cabinet minister and MP. The result was a comfortable victory for the new Conservative candidate Sir George Newton, who held the seat until his elevation to the peerage in 1934 as Baron Eltisley. The election nonetheless saw a sharp fall in the Conservative share of the vote (by over one third) since the 'khaki election' of 1918, although the Conservative vote only actually fell by 656, and Newton's fall in vote share is mainly attributable by a slight rise in the Labour vote, and the appearance of the first Liberal candidate to contest the seat since 1910. Of the two unsuccessful candidates, Hugh Dalton was a Cambridge-educated LSE lecturer in economics who went on to be an MP from 1924, and became Labour's Chancellor under Clement Attlee; and Sydney Cope Morgan was a Cambridge-educated barrister who went on to contest the seat again for the Liberals with an increased vote at each of the next two general elections. All three candidates were contesting the seat for the first time, and Dalton would not contest the seat again. Result of the previous general election in Cambridge General election 1918: Cambridge Unionist Party (UK) Eric Geddes 11,553 75.30 N/A Labour Party (UK) Thomas Rhondda Williams 3,789 24.70 N/A 7,764 50.60 N/A 15,342 60.95 N/A Unionist Party (UK) Result of 16 March 1922 by-election By-election 1922: Cambridge Conservative Party (UK) George Newton 10,897 48.69 −26.61 Labour Party (UK) Hugh Dalton 6,954 31.07 +6.37 Liberal Party (UK) Sydney Cope Morgan 4,529 20.24 N/A 3,943 17.62 -32.98 22,380 80.41 +19.46 Unionist Party (UK) -28.84 References Craig F. W. S. F. W. S. Craig British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 1969 3rd 1983 Parliamentary Research Services Chichester 0-900178-06-X See also List of United Kingdom by-elections Cambridge constituency 1934 Cambridge by-election 1967 Cambridge by-election 1976 Cambridge by-election Category:1922 in England Category:1922 elections in the United Kingdom By-election, 1922 By-election, 1922 Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Cambridgeshire constituencies Category:20th century in Cambridge