1919 Plymouth Sutton by-election

UK parliamentary by-election April 2022 1919 Plymouth Sutton by-election United Kingdom by-election Popular Plymouth Sutton (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1910s 1918 1919 11 28 yes Plymouth Sutton (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1920s 1922 38,539 72.5% File:1921 Nancy Astor.jpg Nancy Astor Unionist Party (UK) Coalition 14,495 51.9% 14.0% Labour Party (UK) William Gay Labour Party (UK) 9,292 33.3% 12.7% File:Isaac Foot Plymouth Sutton by-election (cropped).jpg Isaac Foot Liberal Party (UK) 4,139 14.8% 1.3% MP Waldorf Astor Unionist Party (UK) Subsequent MP Nancy Astor Unionist Party (UK) The 1919 Plymouth Sutton by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 28 November 1919http://www.qub.ac.uk/cawp/UKhtmls/RecordsUK.htm Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics 2010-11-29 2016-03-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233426/http://www.qub.ac.uk/cawp/UKhtmls/RecordsUK.htm dead for the British House of Commons constituency of Sutton in the city of Plymouth, Devon. The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Waldorf Astor, succeeded the peerage as the second Viscount Astor on the death of his father on 18 October 1919. Astor had held the seat since the 1918 general election, and its predecessor Plymouth since the December 1910 general election. Candidates The Conservative Party selected as its candidate Astor's wife Nancy, Lady Astor. She was also the candidate of the Coalition Government. William Thomas Gay stood for Labour, having done so in the 1918 election. Thomas William Mercer again served as his agent.Joyce Bellamy, "Mercer, Thomas William (1884-1947)", Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.I, pp.238-239 The Asquithian Liberals stood Isaac Foot, who had served on Plymouth City Council and had previously contested Totnes and Bodmin. Result thumb|300px|Astor giving her victory speech Lady Astor retained the seat. She became the first woman to take up her seat in the Commons when the first woman to be elected, Countess Markievicz, (the Sinn Féin MP for Dublin St Patrick's refused to take her seat). Plymouth Sutton by-election, 1919 Unionist Party (UK) Nancy Astor 14,495 51.9 -14.0 Labour Party (UK) William Gay 9,292 33.3 +12.7 Liberal Party (UK) Isaac Foot 4,139 14.8 +1.3 5,203 18.6 -26.7 27,926 72.5 +12.9 38,539 Unionist Party (UK) -13.3 Previous result General election 1918: Plymouth Sutton Unionist Party (UK) Waldorf Astor 17,091 65.9 Labour Party (UK) William Gay 5,334 20.6 Liberal Party (UK) Sidney Ransom 3,488 13.5 11,757 45.3 25,913 59.6 43,444 Unionist Party (UK) See also List of United Kingdom by-elections Plymouth Sutton constituency 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 p 2 March 2012 Plymouth Sutton by-election Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Devon constituencies Plymouth Sutton by-election Category:Elections in Plymouth, Devon Category:20th century in Plymouth, Devon Plymouth Sutton by-election Plymouth Sutton by-election, 1919 Plymouth Sutton by-election