Southwark South East by-election, 1921

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Southwark South East in the Parliamentary County of London from 1918 to 1949.

The Southwark South East by-election, 1921 was a parliamentary by-election held on 14 December 1921 for the British House of Commons constituency of Southwark South East, in the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark in London.

The seat had become vacant on the death of the constituency's Coalition Liberal Member of Parliament (MP), James Arthur Dawes. Dawes had been MP for Southwark South East since the 1918 election, and before that Walworth since the January 1910 election.

Votes

Southwark South East by-election, 1921

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Ellis Naylor	6,561	57.0	29.6
	Coalition Liberal	Thomas Owen Jacobsen	2,636	22.9	-49.7
	Independent Conservative	Horace L.P. Boot	2,307	20.1	N/A
Majority			3,925	34.1	N/A
Turnout			11,504	38.5	-6.7
	Labour gain from Coalition Liberal		Swing	39.6

James Arthur Dawes

1918 General Election: Southwark South East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Liberal	James Arthur Dawes	7,208	72.6	N/A
	Labour	Thomas Ellis Naylor	2,718	27.4	N/A
Majority			4,490	45.2	N/A
Turnout			9,926	45.2	N/A
	Coalition Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

See also

• List of United Kingdom by-elections
• Southwark South East constituency

References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages