| 词条 | 1910 Mid Glamorgan by-election |
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The Mid Glamorganshire by-election of 1910 was held on 31 March 1910. The by-election was held due to the incumbent Liberal MP, Samuel Thomas Evans becoming President of the Probate and Divorce Division of the High Court of Justice. It was won by the Liberal-Labour candidate Frederick Gibbins.[1] The Mid Glamorgan Liberal and Labour Association selected Frederick Gibbins to fight the seat. Gibbins was initially reluctant having given certain private assurances that he would not contest the election but he was prevailed upon to change his mind and having consulted his close friends (and perhaps getting the permission of his wife), he agreed to stand.[2] The by-election was acrimonious because it signalled a rupture between the Liberals and organised Labour in the area, especially the South Wales Miners Federation. It also caused internal conflicts within the South Wales Miners Federation, with William Brace, their Vice-President, opposing the intervention of a Labour candidate.[3] It also caused internal conflicts for the Liberal Party as the local Association had been put under pressure by the Liberal Chief Whip, the Master of Elibank. Elibank wanted the Liberals to stand aside in favour of a Labour candidate in the interests of good relations with Labour at Westminster where the Liberal government now depended on Labour and the Irish Nationalists.[4] However, the Liberals in Mid Glamorgan did not wish to yield the seat and determined to fight it. With tacit Unionist support given to him in a campaign characterised by anti-socialist rhetoric, Gibbins held the seat for the Liberals with a majority of 2,710 against a strong Labour challenge from Vernon Hartshorn a prominent miners’ official who later sat as Labour MP for Ogmore.[5] {{Election box begin | title=Mid Glamorganshire by-election, April 1910Electorate 20,017}} {{Election box candidate with party link||party = Liberal-Labour (UK) |candidate = Frederick William Gibbins |votes = 8,920 |percentage = 59.0 |change = -20.6 }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Labour Party (UK) |candidate = Vernon Hartshorn |votes = 6,210 |percentage = 41.0 |change = N/A }}{{Election box majority| |votes = 2,710 |percentage = 17.9 |change = -41.2 }}{{Election box turnout| |votes = 15,130 |percentage = 75.6 |change = -7.1 }}{{Election box hold with party link| |winner = Liberal-Labour (UK) |swing = -10.3 }}{{Election box end}} References1. ^http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm {{By-elections to the 29th UK Parliament}}2. ^Mid Glamorgan Herald and Neath Gazette, 19 March 1910 3. ^The miners and British politics 1906-1914 by Roy Gregory 4. ^K O Morgan, Wales in British Politics, 1868-1922; University of Wales Press, 1963 p251 5. ^The Times, 2 April 1910 p15 4 : 1910 in Wales|1910 elections in the United Kingdom|By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Welsh constituencies|Mid Glamorgan |
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