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1923 Portsmouth South by-election

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Vacancy
Electoral history
Candidates
Campaign
Result
Aftermath
See also
References

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|election_date=13 August 1923
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|party1=Unionist Party (UK)
|popular_vote1=11,884
|percentage1=54.9
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|percentage2=45.1
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The Portsmouth South by-election, 1923 was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 13 August 1923 to elect a new Member of Parliament (MP) for the House of Commons constituency of Portsmouth South in Hampshire.

Vacancy

The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Conservative MP Leslie Orme Wilson had been appointed as Governor of Bombay,^[1] and had therefore resigned from the Commons on 26 July by the procedural device of accepting appointment as Steward of the Manor of Northstead.^[2] Wilson had held the seat for less than a year, having won it at a by-election in December 1922.^[3] He had previously been the MP for Reading from 1913 to 1922.

Electoral history

The result at the last election was

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|party = Unionist Party (UK)
|candidate = Leslie Orme Wilson
|votes = 14,301
|percentage = 62.9
|change = -5.8
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent Unionist
|candidate = G. C. Thomas
|votes = 4,834
|percentage = 37.1
|change = n/a
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 5,867
|percentage = 25.8
|change = -11.6
}}{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 22,735
|percentage = 57.7
|change =
}}{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Unionist Party (UK)
|swing =
}}{{Election box end}}

Candidates

The Conservative candidate was Herbert Cayzer, who had held the seat from the 1918 general election until his resignation on 27 November 1922, only two weeks after being returned at the general election in November 1922.
The Liberal Party candidate was 64-year-old retired Army General, Sir Henry Lawson, who had previously contested the seat unsuccessfully at the 1922 general election.

Campaign

Result

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|party = Unionist Party (UK)
|candidate = Herbert Cayzer
|votes = 11,884
|percentage = 54.9
|change = -8.0
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = Henry Merrick Lawson
|votes = 9,763
|percentage = 45.1
|change = n/a
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 2,121
|percentage = 9.8
|change = -14.0
}}{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 21,647
|percentage = 54.9
|change = -2.8
}}{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Unionist Party (UK)
|swing =
}}{{Election box end}}

Aftermath

Cayzer was re-elected for Portsmouth South at the next five general elections, and held the seat until he was ennobled in 1939. Lawson never stood for Parliament again. The result at the following General election;

{{Election box begin | title=1923 General Election^[4]}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Unionist Party (UK)
|candidate = Herbert Cayzer
|votes = 16,625
|percentage = 55.9
|change = +1.0
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = J. Stephen
|votes = 7,388
|percentage = 24.9
|change = n/a
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = Sidney Robert Drury-Lowe
|votes = 5,698
|percentage = 19.2
|change = -25.9
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 9,237
|percentage = 31.0
|change = +21.2
}}{{Election box turnout|
|votes =
|percentage = 72.7
|change = +17.8
}}{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Unionist Party (UK)
|loser =
|swing =
}}{{Election box end}}

References

1. ^{{London Gazette|issue= 32855|date= 21 August 1923|page=5704|city= London}}
2. ^{{London Gazette|issue= 32854|date= 17 August 1923|page=5619|city= London}}
3. ^{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 |origyear=1969 |edition=3rd |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-06-X |page=219}}
4. ^¹²F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1949

5 : 1923 in England|1923 elections in the United Kingdom|By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Hampshire constituencies|Elections in Portsmouth|20th century in Hampshire

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