1898 Stepney by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election March 2023 March 2023 The 1898 Stepney by-election was held on 9 March 1898 following the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Frederick Wootton Isaacson on 22 February 1898.Death of Mr. F. Wootton Isaacson M.P. Pall Mall Gazette 23 February 1898Death of Mr Wotton Isaacson M.P. North-Eastern Daily Gazette 23 February 1898Death of Mr Wootton Isaacson, M.P. Ipswich Journal 25 February 1898 Candidates The Conservative Party candidate was William Evans-Gordon, a career diplomat in the British Raj who had retired as a political officer in 1897. The Liberal Party candidate was W. C. Steadman. Steadman was the London County Council member for Stepney and had unsuccessfully fought Hammersmith in the 1895 general election. Both candidates had fought Stepney at the London County Council election on 3 March 1898.Willis Alan John Woollard Twentieth Century Local Election Results Volume 1: Election Results For the London County Council (1889–1961) and London Metropolitan Boroughs (1900–1928) Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre 2000 Plymouth 12 March 1898 The Stepney Election https://huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Huddersfield_Chronicle_(12/Mar/1898)_-_page_3 Huddersfield Chronicle 3 6 March 2023 Result 1898 Stepney by-electionCraig F.W.S. F. W. S. Craig 1974 British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918 https://books.google.com/books?id=ah2vCwAAQBAJ London and Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 56 978-1-349-02300-4 1908 The Liberal Year Book for 1908 https://archive.org/details/liberalyearbook01unkngoog/ London The Liberal Publication Department 350–351 1919 The Constitutional Year Book for 1919 https://archive.org/details/constitutional1919londuoft/ London National Unionist Association 288 Liberal-Labour (UK) W. C. Steadman 2,492 50.2 +5.8 Conservative Party (UK) William Evans-Gordon 2,472 49.8 −5.8 20 0.4 N/A 4,964 6,387 77.7 +7.9 Liberal-Labour (UK) Conservative Party (UK) +5.8 References Stepney by-election Stepney,1898 Category:1898 in England Category:1898 in London Stepney,1898 Category:February 1898 in Europe