1908 Pembrokeshire by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election

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Candidate	Roch	Williams
Party	Liberal	Conservative
Popular vote	5,465	3,293
Percentage	62.4	37.6

MP before election

John Philipps
Liberal

Subsequent MP

Walter Roch
Liberal

The 1908 Pembrokeshire by-election was held on 16 July 1908. The by-election was held due to the elevation to the peerage of the incumbent Liberal MP, John Wynford Philipps. It was won by the Liberal candidate Walter Roch.^[1]

Campaign

Roch had the support of the MPs W. Llewelyn Williams and W. Jones of the United Kingdom Alliance and the Free Trade League respectively. The Miners' Federation of Great Britain also strongly supported Roch. Lort Williams, the Conservative candidate, was supported by emissaries from the Tariff Reform League and the National Trade Defence Association.^[2]

A formidable group of Suffragettes (including Emmeline Pankhurst) came to Pembrokeshire to campaign against Roch,^[2] not because they disliked him, or supported Lort-Williams, but because H.H. Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister, was immovably opposed to the enfranchisement of women.^[3]

Result

1908 Pembrokeshire by-election^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Walter Roch	5,465	62.4	-6.9
	Conservative	John Lort-Williams	3,293	37.6	+6.9
Majority			2,172	24.8	-13.8
Turnout			8,758	77.3	+2.3
Registered electors			11,331
	Liberal hold		Swing	-6.9

References

^ "House of Commons". www.leighrayment.com. Archived from the original on 7 June 2008.
^ ^a ^b "PEMBROKE VACANCY". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 4 July 1908. Retrieved 4 February 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ Use your vote: the Suffragette movement in Pembrokeshire remembered, Western Telegraph, by Joanna Sayers, 10 April 2015
^ Craig, F. W. S. (1974). British parliamentary election results 1885-1918 (1 ed.). London and Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press Ltd. ISBN 9780333169032. Page 487

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