1914 North East Derbyshire by-election

North East Derbyshire by-election
20 May 1914
 
Candidate Bowden Houfton Martin
Party Unionist Liberal Labour
Popular vote 6,469 6,155 3,669
Percentage 39.7% 37.8% 22.5%
MP before election

Harvey
Labour

 Subsequent MP

Holmes
Liberal

The 1914 North East Derbyshire by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 20 May 1914. 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. About a third of the electorate were directly involved in the mining industry. This was the penultimate by-election to take place before the outbreak of the First World War. It demonstrated the weakness of support for the Labour party in 1914 when opposed by a Liberal party candidate.

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