St George's, Hanover Square by-election, 1916

The St George, Hanover Square by-election of 1916 was held on 11 January 1916. The by-election was held due to the elevation of the incumbent Conservative MP, Sir Alexander Henderson. It was won by the Unionist candidate Sir George Reid, the former Prime Minister of Australia,^[1] who acted as a spokesman for the self-governing Dominions in supporting the war effort. He was unopposed.

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1911	February: Arfon Cambridge University Horncastle Westbury Forest of Dean March: North East Lanarkshire Brentford Bootle April: Haddingtonshire Cheltenham East Dorset May: Birmingham South Barnstaple June: Ross & Cromarty Brighton July: Kingston upon Hull Central Glasgow Tradeston St Augustine's West Ham North East Wicklow North East Cork East Cork Luton Wellington Bethnal Green South West August: Middleton September: Kilmarnock Burghs October: North Tyrone Keighley November: Bristol East Oldham South Somerset Hitchin December: North Ayrshire Govan

1912	January: Carmarthen District February: Edinburgh East Glasgow St Rollox March: Manchester South Hereford South East Essex Leominster Epsom April: Nottingham East Forest of Dean May: Hackney South North West Norfolk June: Hythe Holmfirth July: Ilkeston Hanley Crewe August: Manchester North West East Carmarthenshire September: Edinburghshire November: Taunton Bolton Bow & Bromley

1913	January: Flint Boroughs Londonderry City February: East Waterford East Antrim Chorley March: Houghton-le-Spring Kendal April: Shrewsbury Whitechapel May: Newmarket Altrincham June: Leix Wandsworth Dover Leicester July: St George's, Hanover Square August: Chesterfield November: North Cork Linlithgowshire Reading Keighley December: Wick District South Lanarkshire

1914	January: North West Durham February: Wycombe Cork City Bethnal Green South West Poplar Leith Burghs April: Belfast East East Fife May: Great Grimsby North East Derbyshire Ipswich June: Brighton Oxford University July: Birmingham West East Worcestershire North Galway August: Swansea District West Wicklow September: Bolton The Hartlepools November: Londonderry City December: East Galway Tullamore Sheffield Attercliffe

1915	February: Norwich Swansea District Scarborough Shipley Howdenshire Thirsk & Malton Wigtownshire Chesterton Saffron Walden Liverpool Kirkdale Mid Antrim Maidstone March: Carmarthen Boroughs April: Mid Durham May: Kilmarnock Burghs June: Preston Dublin College Green North Tipperary Keighley July: Arfon Glasgow Central October: Dublin Harbour Appleby November: Heywood Uxbridge Cardiff Kingston St Helens St Austell Merthyr Tydfil Tiverton December: Cleveland

1916	January: Newington West St George, Hanover Square Portsmouth North West Staffordshire Chesterton Bradford Central Mile End Rotherham February: Liverpool East Toxteth North Louth South Tyrone Bolton Chester Droitwich March: Cockermouth Hertford South Shields Harborough Hyde April: Wimbledon Dublin University Ossory May: Tewkesbury Widnes July: Berwickshire August: Bodmin Berwick-upon-Tweed Colne Valley Abingdon September: Mansfield October: North Ayrshire St Pancras West Winchester North Fermanagh November: West Cork December: Hornsey Ashton-under-Lyne Sheffield Hallam Whitechapel Derby Edinburgh & St Andrews Universities

1917	January: Inverness-shire February: North Roscommon Dublin University Rotherham Rossendale West Perthshire Tamworth March: Stockton Oxford April: Aberdeen South Belfast South Ealing May: South Longford Edinburgh South June: Epping Henley Liverpool Abercromby July: Belfast South Fulham South County Dublin East Clare South Monmouthshire Cambridge Chesterton Dundee August: Edinburgh & St Andrews Universities Norwich October: Islington East Spalding Basingstoke November: Salford North North Armagh December: Wisbech Southampton

1918	January: Mid Armagh Prestwich February: South Armagh March: Waterford Manchester South April: East Tyrone Tullamore Birmingham West Keighley May: Ross Exeter Newcastle-upon-Tyne Wansbeck June: Gravesend Bridgwater East Cavan Clapham July: Finsbury East Manchester North East Fareham East Grinstead August: Canterbury September: Banbury October: St George's, Hanover Square Bath Mid Norfolk Elgin Burghs South Shields Prestwich November: Wilton

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