Bury St Edmunds by-election, 1925

The Bury St Edmunds by-election of 1925 was held when the sitting MP for Bury St Edmunds Walter Guinness was nominated as Minister of Agriculture in 1925. A by-election was required under the electoral law of the time, which he won.

Bury St Edmunds by-election, 1925 Electorate 30,544
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Walter Edward Guinness	14,700	62.8
	Liberal	George Nicholls	8,703	37.2
Majority			5,997	25.6
Turnout			23,420	74.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

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1924	December: Dundee

1925	February: Walsall June: Ayr Burghs Eastbourne Oldham July: Forest of Dean September: Stockport November: Galloway December: Bury St Edmunds Ripon

1926	January: Dunbartonshire January: East Renfrewshire February: Cambridge University Darlington March: Combined English Universities Bothwell April: East Ham North May: Buckrose Hammersmith North July: Wallsend September: North Cumberland November: Howdenshire Kingston-upon-Hull Central Chelmsford December: Smethwick

1927	February: Stourbridge March: Edinburgh Leith Southwark North April: Combined Scottish Universities May: Bosworth June: Westbury Brixton November: Southend Canterbury

1928	January: Northampton Faversham February: Bristol West Lancaster Ilford March: St Ives Middlesbrough West April: Linlithgowshire Hanley St Marylebone June: Carmarthen Holborn July: Epsom Halifax Sheffield Hallam August: Aberdeen North September: Cheltenham October: Tavistock Ashton-under-Lyne

1929	January: Londonderry January: Midlothian and Peebles Northern February: Battersea South Bishop Auckland Wansbeck March: Liverpool East Toxteth Eddisbury Bath Holland with Boston North Lanarkshire

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