1908 Ashburton by-election
The by-election was triggered by the appointment of the sitting Liberal MP Harry Trelawney Eve as a judge.The Liberal Unionist candidate Ernest Morrison-Bell, had lost the constituency by 1,283 votes in the previous general election.A crowd of over 10,000 people gathered in the town centre to hear the result, and after it was announced, several fights broke out, with Liberal supporters accusing their opponents of having won through 'beer' and 'bribery'.Morrison-Bell had to be escorted to the Conservative Club by the police, and Emmeline Pankhurst and another supporter of the women's suffrage movement were knocked down and injured in a shop in which they had taken refuge.A crowd later invaded the Conservative Club, causing considerable damage, and the police had to charge with truncheons, leaving several people in need of medical treatment.
BuxtonLiberal UnionistLiberalHarry Trelawney EveCharles Buxtonby-electionEnglandMember of ParliamentBritish House of CommonsconstituencyAshburtonGeneral election 1906Harry EveErnest Morrison-BellTurnoutRegistered electorsprevious general electionCharles Roden BuxtonEmmeline Pankhurstwomen's suffrage movementGeneral election January 1910List of United Kingdom by-electionsAshburton constituency1904 Ashburton by-electionBy-elections28th Parliament of the United KingdomWestburyCity of LondonEast AberdeenshireNorth GalwayNorth LeitrimNorth KilkennyBasingstokeLeicesterDulwichEifionSt George's, Hanover SquareBodminEast TyroneCockermouthEast DenbighshireMid GlamorganshireGalwayNorth ArmaghHuddersfieldMid CorkNorth East DerbyshireBanffshireNorth MonmouthshireAberdeen SouthHalifaxNorth TyroneHexhamSouth WestmeathBelfast NorthStepneyWimbledonHornseyRutlandNorth MonaghanJarrowColne ValleySouth KilkennyEast WicklowNorth West StaffordshireAngleseyBury St EdmundsWest DownSouth LongfordLiverpool KirkdaleKingston upon Hull WestCarlow CountySt AustellWorcesterLeeds SouthWest CarmarthenshireBewdleyHastingsPeckhamWest DerbyshireSheffield CentralDewsburyManchester North WestKincardineshireWolverhampton EastDundeeMontrose BurghsNewportStirling BurghsPudseyPembrokeshireHaggerstonNewcastle-upon-TyneChelmsfordTamworthTauntonForfarshireGlasgow CentralEdinburgh SouthHawick BurghsCroydonEdinburgh EastSheffield AttercliffeStratford-on-AvonEdinburgh WestEast LimerickClevelandMid DerbyshireDumfries BurghsHigh PeakNorth SligoWest ClareBermondseySouth Armagh1801–18061806–18181818–18321832–18471847–18571857–18681868–18851885–19001900–19181918–19311931–19501950–1979