Election Name: | 1920 Dartford by-election |
Type: | presidential |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Previous Election: | Dartford (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1910s |
Previous Year: | 1918 |
Next Election: | Dartford (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1920s |
Next Year: | 1922 |
Election Date: | 27 March 1920 |
Candidate1: | Mills |
Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
Popular Vote1: | 13,610 |
Percentage1: | 50.1 |
Candidate2: | Wing |
Party2: | Liberal Party (UK) |
Popular Vote2: | 4,562 |
Percentage2: | 16.8 |
Candidate3: | Meller |
Party3: | Unionist Party (UK) |
Popular Vote3: | 4,221 |
Percentage3: | 15.6 |
Candidate4: | Applin |
Party4: | National Party (UK, 1917) |
Popular Vote4: | 2,952 |
Percentage4: | 10.9 |
Candidate5: | Fehr |
Party5: | Independent Unionist |
Popular Vote5: | 1,802 |
Percentage5: | 6.6 |
Map Size: | 250px |
MP | |
Posttitle: | Subsequent MP |
Before Election: | Rowlands |
Before Party: | Liberal Party (UK) |
After Election: | Jarrett |
After Party: | Constitutionalist (UK) |
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.