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1919 Plymouth Sutton by-election

UK parliamentary by-election

Field	Value
election_name	1919 Plymouth Sutton by-election
type	presidential
country	United Kingdom
previous_election	Plymouth Sutton (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1910s
previous_year	1918
next_election	Plymouth Sutton (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1920s
next_year	1922
election_date	28 November 1919
candidate1	Nancy Astor
image1	[[File:1921 Nancy Astor.jpg	60px]]
party1	Unionist Party (UK)
popular_vote1	14,495
percentage1	51.9%
candidate2	W.T. Gay
party2	Labour Party (UK)
popular_vote2	9,292
percentage2	33.3%
candidate3	Isaac Foot
image3	[[File:Isaac Foot crop.jpg	55px]]
party3	Liberal Party (UK)
popular_vote3	4,139
percentage3	14.8%
map_size	250px
title	MP
posttitle	Subsequent MP
before_election	Waldorf Astor
before_party	Unionist Party (UK)
after_election	Nancy Astor
after_party	Unionist Party (UK)

The 1919 Plymouth Sutton by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 28 November 1919 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.
The Asquithian Liberals stood Isaac Foot, who had served on Plymouth City Council and had previously contested Totnes and Bodmin.
W. T. Gay stood for Labour, having done so in the 1918 election. Thomas William Mercer again served as his agent.

Result

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).

Previous result

References

"Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics".
Joyce Bellamy, "Mercer, Thomas William (1884-1947)", ''Dictionary of Labour Biography'', vol.I, pp.238-239

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