The 1909

Stratford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon (), commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It is situated on the River Avon, north-wes ...

by-election was held on 4 May 1909. The by-election was held due to the incumbent Liberal MP,

Thomas Kincaid-Smith Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Malcolm Harvey Kincaid-Smith (6 July 1874 – 31 December 1938), known as Malcolm Kincaid-Smith was a British Liberal politician and soldier. Commissioned a second lieutenant into the 9th Lancers on 10 October 1894, h ...

, resigning to restand following his resignation from the Liberal Party. It was won by the Conservative candidate Philip Staveley Foster. Kincaid-Smith was elected as Member of Parliament for

in 1906. In 1909, he resigned his seat and left the Liberal Party to advocate compulsory military training. He stood as an independent, supported by the

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, at the ensuing by-election, but was badly defeated.

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