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1911 Bootle by-election

UK parliamentary by-election

Field	Value
election_name	1911 Bootle by-election
type	presidential
country	United Kingdom
previous_election	Bootle (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1910s
previous_year	Dec. 1910
next_election	Bootle (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in the 1910s
next_year	1918
election_date	27 March 1911
candidate1	Bonar Law
image1	[[File:Bonar Law crop.jpg	85px]]
party1	Conservative Party (UK)
popular_vote1	9,976
percentage1	56.2%
candidate2	Muspratt
image2	[[File:Max_Muspratt.png	85px]]
party2	Liberal Party (UK)
popular_vote2	7,782
percentage2	43.8%
map_size	250px
title	MP
posttitle	Subsequent MP
before_election	Thomas Sandys
before_party	Conservative Party (UK)
after_election	Thomas Royden
after_party	Unionist Party (UK)

The 1911 Bootle by-election was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Bootle in Merseyside on 27 March 1911. It was won by the Conservative Party candidate Bonar Law.

Vacancy

The seat had become vacant on 13 March 1911 when the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), 73-year-old Thomas Myles Sandys had resigned from the House of Commons by the procedural device of accepting the office of Steward of the Manor of Northstead, a notional 'office of profit under the crown'. He had held the seat since the 1885 general election, and died on 18 October 1911.

Previous result

At the previous December 1910 general election, Conservative MP Thomas Sandys was elected unopposed. However, there was a previous contest at the General election in January:

Result

The result was a victory for the Conservative candidate, Bonar Law, who won the seat with 56% of the votes. He did not contest Bootle in 1918, and was instead elected in the Glasgow Central constituency.

Bonar Law was later elected Leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons, and went on to hold a series of ministerial positions before becoming Prime Minister for seven months from 1922 to 1923

References

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