1920 Dartford by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election

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27 March 1920

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Candidate	Mills	Wing	Meller
Party	Labour	Liberal	Unionist
Popular vote	13,610	4,562	4,221
Percentage	50.1	16.8	15.6


Candidate	Applin	Fehr
Party	National	Ind. Unionist
Popular vote	2,952	1,802
Percentage	10.9	6.6

MP before election

Rowlands
Liberal

Subsequent MP

Jarrett
Constitutionalist

The 1920 Dartford by-election was held on 27 March 1920. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Coalition Liberal MP, James Rowlands. It was won by the Labour candidate John Edmund Mills.^[1]

Dartford by-election, 1920^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Edmund Mills	13,610	50.1	+21.4
	Liberal	Thomas Wing	4,562	16.8	N/A
C	Unionist	Richard Meller	4,221	15.6	New
	National	Reginald Applin	2,952	10.9	New
	Ind. Unionist	Frank Emil Fehr	1,802	6.6	New
Majority			9,048	33.3	N/A
Turnout			27,147	61.3	+13.4
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

References

^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
^ The Constitutional Year Book, 1925

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