Election Name: | 1926 Buckrose by-election |
Type: | presidential |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Previous Election: | Buckrose (UK Parliament constituency) |
Previous Year: | 1924 |
Next Election: | 1929 United Kingdom general election |
Next Year: | 1929 |
Election Date: | 5 May 1926 |
Candidate1: | Albert Braithwaite |
Party1: | Unionist Party (UK) |
Popular Vote1: | 12,098 |
Percentage1: | 48.7% |
Candidate2: | Sir Harry Verney |
Party2: | Liberal Party (UK) |
Popular Vote2: | 10,537 |
Percentage2: | 42.5% |
Candidate3: | H.C. Laycock |
Party3: | Labour Party (UK) |
Popular Vote3: | 2,191 |
Percentage3: | 8.8% |
MP | |
Posttitle: | Subsequent MP |
Before Election: | Sir Guy Gaunt |
Before Party: | Unionist Party (UK) |
After Election: | Albert Braithwaite |
After Party: | Unionist Party (UK) |
The 1926 Buckrose by-election was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Buckrose, Yorkshire on 5 May 1926. This was the first by-election to take place during the General Strike.
The by-election was caused by the resignation of the sitting Unionist MP, Sir Guy Gaunt on 20 February 1926. He was cited as co-respondent in the divorce case between Sir Richard Cruise and his wife. He had been MP here since winning the seat in 1922.
The constituency was created in 1885 and had been in the hands of the Liberal Party for most of the time before the Unionists won in 1922. A Labour candidate had only ever stood here once before, in 1918. The result at the last General Election was:
Nominations closed on 27 April. Polling Day was set for 5 May 1926.
The Unionists hung onto the seat by a reduced margin;
Braithwaite retained the seat at the following General Election;Neither Verney not Laycock stood for parliament again.