The 1921

Dover Dover () is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel at from Cap Gris Nez in France. It lies south-east of Canterbury and east of Maidstone ...

by-election was held on 12 January 1921. The by-election was held due to the succession to the peerage of the incumbent Coalition Unionist MP, Vere Ponsonby as Ninth

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. It was won by the Independent candidate

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. Polson's election was supported by

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, but although claimed by Bottonmley as a member of the right-wing

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, he joined the

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shortly after his election. Polson stood again at the general election in November 1922, but was defeated by the Unionist candidate

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, whom he had defeated at the by-election in 1921.

Result

References

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