1924 Holland With Boston By-election
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The 1924 Holland with Boston by-election was a
by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to f ...
held on 31 July 1924 for the British House of Commons constituency of Holland with Boston in
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. The by-election was caused by the death of the town's Labour
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(MP) William Stapleton Royce, who had held the seat since its creation for the 1918 general election. The
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candidate was the son of Sir
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, MP for
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from 1906–1923 and
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from 1923-24. The result was a victory for the Conservative Party candidate Arthur Dean.


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1929 Holland with Boston by-election The 1929 Holland with Boston by-election was a by-election held on 21 March 1929 for the House of Commons constituency of Holland with Boston in Lincolnshire. The by-election was caused by the death of the Unionist Member of Parliament, Arthu ...
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1937 Holland with Boston by-election The 1937 Holland with Boston by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 24 June 1937 for the British House of Commons constituency of Holland with Boston. Previous MP The seat had become vacant when the constituency's National Liber ...
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List of United Kingdom by-elections (1918–1931) This is a list of parliamentary by-elections in the United Kingdom held between 1918 and 1931, with the names of the incumbent and victor and their respective parties. Where seats changed political party at the election, the result is highlighte ...
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