1913 Keighley by-election

1913 Keighley by-election
11 November 1913 (1913-11-11)
Keighley constituency
Turnout86.5%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Candidate Stanley Buckmaster The Viscount Lascelles William Bland
Party Liberal Unionist Labour
Popular vote 4,730 3,852 3,646
Percentage 38.7% 31.5% 29.8%
Swing 0.3 pp 0.6 pp 0.9 pp
MP before election

Stanley Buckmaster
Liberal

 Elected MP

Stanley Buckmaster
Liberal

The 1913 Keighley by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 11 November 1913. The constituency returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

The incumbent, Sir Stanley Buckmaster of the Liberal Party, had been elected for the constituency in the 1911 Keighley by-election. He was required to fight another by-election on his appointment as Solicitor General for England and Wales. Henry Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles, the 30-year old heir to the Earl of Harewood, whose peerage he succeeded to in 1929, and future husband of Mary, Princess Royal, was the candidate for the Conservative Party. William Bland, a local trade unionist member of local Independent Labour Party was endorsed by the national Labour Party to fight in the by-election.

The Liberal Party held the seat as Buckmaster was re-elected.

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