1881 Preston by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 August 2019 The 1881 Preston by-election took place on 20 May 1881 after the death of the incumbent Conservative MP Edward Hermon. The Conservative candidate William Farrer Ecroyd campaigned on a fair trade platform and won the seat.A. C. Howe, ‘Ecroyd, William Farrer (1827–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 16 Jan 2014. Preston by-election, 1881Political The Cornishman 150 26 May 1881 6 Conservative Party (UK) William Farrer Ecroyd 6,004 58.0 -10.9 Liberal Party (UK) Henry Yates Thompson 4,340 42.0 +10.9 1,664 16.0 +14.3 10,344 88.0 -7.8 (est) 11,748 Conservative Party (UK) -10.9 Notes Further reading B. H. Brown, The Tariff Reform Movement in Great Britain, 1881–1895 (1943). S. Zebel, ‘Fair Trade: An English Reaction to the Breakdown of the Cobden Treaty System’, Journal of Modern History, 12 (1940), pp. 161–185. Category:1881 elections in the United Kingdom Category:1881 in England Category:1880s in Lancashire Category:Elections in Preston, Lancashire Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Lancashire constituencies Category:May 1881 in the United Kingdom