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1905 Chichester by-election

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Vacancy
Electoral history
Candidates
Campaign
Result
Aftermath
References

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|country = United Kingdom
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|previous_year =1900
|next_election =Chichester (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1900s
|next_year =1906
|election_date =2 June 1905
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The Chichester by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system. It was held on 2 June 1905 after the incumbent Conservative MP Lord Edmund Talbot was appointed as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and he was obliged to stand again in a ministerial by-election. It was retained by Talbot.

Vacancy

Lord Edmund Talbot had been Conservative MP for the seat of Chichester since the Chichester by-election, 1894. He was appointed as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and he was obliged to stand again in a ministerial by-election.

Electoral history

The seat had been Conservative since creation in 1868. Lord Edmund Talbot held the seat at the last election, unopposed:

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|party=Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate=Edmund Talbot
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Talbot had always been returned unopposed. The last contest in the constituency came in 1892, when the Conservative out-polled the Liberal by nearly two to one.^[1]

Candidates

The local Conservative Association re-selected 50 year-old Lord Edmund Talbot as their candidate to defend the seat. The local Liberal Association selected 33 year-old John Ernest Allen as their candidate to challenge for the seat. Allen was a Barrister-at-law, who had been educated at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities where he gained a Master of Arts.^[4]

Campaign

Polling Day was fixed for the 2 June 1905, the day after the Whitby by-election, 1905. On the eve of poll, the Liberals gained Whitby from the Conservatives.^[1]

Result

The Conservatives held the seat with their lowest majority since 1885:

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|party=Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate=Edmund Talbot
|votes=4,174
|percentage=52.6
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}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party=Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate=John Ernest Allen
|votes=3,762
|percentage=47.4
|change=n/a
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes=412
|percentage=5.2
|change=n/a
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|percentage=73.6
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Aftermath

At the following General Election, Talbot again held the seat, the result was:

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|party=Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate=Lord Talbot
|votes=5,197
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}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party=Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate=John Ernest Allen
|votes=4,023
|percentage=
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}}{{Election box majority|
|votes=1,174
|percentage=
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References

1. ^¹²³British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
2. ^¹²The Liberal Year Book, 1907
3. ^Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
4. ^‘ALLEN, John Ernest’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 10 Jan 2017
5. ^ {{cite news|title=Chichester By-election|work=Ballymena Observer|date=9 June 1905|accessdate=8 December 2015|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001426/19050609/084/0003|via=British Newspaper Archive|subscription=yes}}

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