1916 North Louth by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 August 2019 1916 North Louth by-election parliamentary North Louth (constituency) 24 February 1916 Patrick Whitty Irish Parliamentary 2,299 Bernard Hamill Healyite Nationalist 1,810 The 1916 North Louth by-election was held on 24 February 1916. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Irish Parliamentary MP, Augustine Roche. It was won by the Irish Parliamentary candidate Patrick Whitty.May 2021 Whitty received some Unionist support, while Hamill received separatist support.Maume (1999), p.170 Whitty was aged just 21, becoming the youngest MP at the time. He was the nephew of Richard Hazleton, elected MP for the seat in December 1910 but subsequently unseated on petition (although Hazleton continued to sit for North Galway where he had been elected at the same election). Whitty was imposed on the constituency of North Louth by the Party leadership in what was widely ridiculed as an act of nepotism. D.P. Moran's paper the Leader referred to him as "Whitty the Kid" and published a cartoon in which his victory procession included a pram labelled "The Next Candidate". Result North Louth by-election, 1916Walker (1978) Irish Parliamentary Party Patrick Whitty 2,299 55.9 +0.5 Healyite Nationalist Bernard Hamill 1,810 44.0 N/A 489 11.9 +1.1 4,109 72.1 -5.1 Irish Parliamentary Party N/A References Category:1916 elections in Ireland Category:1916 elections in the United Kingdom Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in County Louth constituencies Category:February 1916 in the United Kingdom