1903 Ludlow by-election

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Ludlow by-election, 1903
← 1900 22 December 1903 1906 →
 
Candidate Rowland Hunt
Party Liberal Unionist Liberal
Popular vote 4,393 3,423
Percentage 56.2 43.8
MP before election

Robert Jasper More
Liberal Unionist

Subsequent MP

Rowland Hunt
Liberal Unionist

The Ludlow by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

Vacancy[]

Robert Jasper More had been Liberal Unionist MP for the seat of Ludlow since the 1892 General Election. He died on 25 November 1903 at the age of 67.

Electoral history[]

The seat had been Liberal Unionist since they gained it in 1886. They held the seat at the last election, unopposed. The last occasion a Liberal had stood was in 1892 when the Unionists won easily;

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General election 1892: Ludlow [1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Unionist Robert Jasper More 5,965 73.5
Liberal F Sydney Morris 2,146 26.5
Majority 3,819 47.0
Turnout 8.111 71.9
Liberal Unionist hold Swing

Candidates[]

  • The local Conservative Association selected 45 year-old Rowland Hunt as their candidate to defend the seat. Hunt was the son of Rowland Hunt, of Boreatton Hall, Baschurch, Shropshire and his wife Florence Marianne, daughter of Richard B. Humfrey, of Kibworth Hall, Leicestershire, and Stoke Albany House, Northamptonshire.[2][3] The Hunts were one of the principal families of north Shropshire.[4] His uncle George Ward Hunt was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Disraeli.[5] Hunt was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge.[6] He served with the Lovat Scouts during the Second Boer War, and later became a Major in the City of London Yeomanry.[7] In 1889, Hunt married Georgina Veronica Davidson, daughter of Colonel Duncan Davidson of Tulloch Castle in Dingwall. They had two sons and one daughter.[8][9]
  • The local Liberal Association selected 40 year-old as their candidate to gain the seat. He had not stood for parliament before. After leaving Adams Grammar School, in Newport, Shropshire he studied farming in Shropshire. He farmed at Shifnal[10]

Campaign[]

Polling Day was fixed for the 22 December, just 27 days after the previous MP died.

Result[]

Ludlow by-election, 1903 [11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Unionist Rowland Hunt 4,393 56.2
Liberal Frederic Horne 3,423 43.8
Majority 970 12.4
Turnout 7,816
Liberal Unionist hold Swing

Aftermath[]

At the following General Election the result was;

General election 1906: Ludlow [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Unionist Rowland Hunt 4,978 54.1 -2.1
Liberal Frederic Horne 4,218 45.9 +2.1
Majority 760 8.2 -4.2
Turnout 9,196 85.4
Liberal Unionist hold Swing -2.1

References[]

  1. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
  2. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
  3. ^ odnb-agnes-hunt
  4. ^ The Times, 1903-12-08
  5. ^ The Times, 1903-12-08
  6. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
  7. ^ The Times, 1943-12-01
  8. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
  9. ^ The Times, 1943-12-01
  10. ^ ‘HORNE, Frederic’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 9 Aug 2017
  11. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
  12. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
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