1913 Linlithgowshire by-election

[1] The constituency returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.Alexander Ure had been Liberal Member of Parliament for Linlithgowshire since 1895.Some 2,000 Irish electors lived in the constituency and they were expected to heavily support the Liberal candidate.Local branches of the Independent Labour Party asked local electors to vote for the Unionist Party candidate.For the 1918 elections, Pratt moved to contest Glasgow Cathcart.
Victorious Liberal candidate John Pratt
Alexander Ure
LinlithgowshireParliamentary by-electionMember of ParliamentHouse of Commons of the United Kingdomfirst past the postAlexander UreLiberalGeneral election December 1910UnionistJames KiddTurnoutFabianJohn PrattProvostDalkeith1912 Midlothian by-electionUnionistsBritish Socialist PartyRobert SmallIndependent Labour PartyGeneral election 1918LabourManny Shinwellcandidate endorsed by the coalition governmentBy-elections30th Parliament of the United KingdomCambridge UniversityHorncastleWestburyForest of DeanNorth East LanarkshireBrentfordBootleHaddingtonshireCheltenhamEast DorsetBirmingham SouthBarnstapleRoss & CromartyBrightonKingston upon Hull CentralGlasgow TradestonSt Augustine'sWest Ham NorthEast WicklowNorth East CorkEast CorkWellingtonBethnal Green South WestMiddletonKilmarnock BurghsNorth TyroneKeighleyBristol EastOldhamSouth SomersetHitchinNorth AyrshireCarmarthen DistrictEdinburgh EastGlasgow St RolloxManchester SouthHerefordSouth East EssexLeominsterNottingham EastHackney SouthNorth West NorfolkHolmfirthIlkestonHanleyManchester North WestEast CarmarthenshireMidlothianTauntonBoltonBow & BromleyFlint BoroughsLondonderry CityEast WaterfordEast AntrimChorleyHoughton-le-SpringKendalShrewsburyWhitechapelNewmarketAltrinchamWandsworthLeicesterSt George's, Hanover SquareChesterfieldNorth CorkReadingWick BurghsSouth LanarkshireNorth West DurhamWycombeCork CityPoplarLeith BurghsBelfast EastEast FifeGreat GrimsbyNorth East DerbyshireIpswichOxford UniversityBirmingham WestEast WorcestershireNorth GalwaySwansea DistrictWest WicklowThe HartlepoolsEast GalwayTullamoreSheffield AttercliffeNorwichScarboroughShipleyHowdenshireThirsk & MaltonWigtownshireChestertonSaffron WaldenLiverpool KirkdaleMid AntrimMaidstoneCarmarthen BoroughsMid DurhamPrestonDublin College GreenNorth TipperaryGlasgow CentralDublin HarbourApplebyHeywoodUxbridgeCardiffKingstonSt HelensSt AustellMerthyr TydfilTivertonClevelandNewington WestPortsmouthNorth West StaffordshireBradford CentralMile EndRotherhamLiverpool East ToxtethNorth LouthSouth TyroneChesterDroitwichCockermouthHertfordSouth ShieldsHarboroughWimbledonDublin UniversityOssoryTewkesburySouth LondonderryWidnesBerwickshireBodminBerwick-upon-TweedColne ValleyAbingdonMansfieldSt Pancras WestWinchesterNorth FermanaghWest CorkHornseyAshton-under-LyneSheffield HallamEdinburgh & St Andrews UniversitiesInverness-shireNorth RoscommonRossendaleWest PerthshireTamworthStocktonOxfordAberdeen SouthBelfast SouthEalingSouth LongfordEdinburgh SouthEppingHenleyLiverpool AbercrombyFulhamSouth DublinEast ClareSouth MonmouthshireCambridgeDundeeKilkenny CityIslington EastSpaldingBasingstokeSalford NorthNorth ArmaghWisbechSouthamptonMid ArmaghPrestwichSouth ArmaghWaterford CityEast TyroneExeterNewcastle-upon-TyneWansbeckGravesendBridgwaterEast CavanClaphamFinsbury EastManchester North EastFarehamEast GrinsteadCanterburyBanburyMid NorfolkElgin BurghsWilton1801–18061806–18181818–18321832–18471847–18571857–18681868–18851885–19001900–19181918–19311931–19501950–19791979–20102010–presentHereditary peersScotlandEdinburgh and St Andrews UniversitiesOrkney and ShetlandEast PerthshireArgyllshireSt Andrews BurghsAyr BurghsButeshireEast AberdeenshireBanffshireKincardineshireStirling BurghsMontrose BurghsForfarshireHawick BurghsEdinburgh WestDumfries BurghsRoss and CromartyAberdeenshire and Kincardineshire CentralPaisleyArgyllEdinburgh NorthKirkcaldy BurghsGlasgow PollokInvernessMoray and NairnGlasgow KelvingroveGallowayDunbartonshireEast RenfrewshireCombined Scottish UniversitiesAberdeen NorthMidlothian and Peebles NorthernKilmarnockGlasgow ShettlestonRutherglenDumfriesshireGreenockGlasgow HillheadGlasgow SpringburnKinross and Western PerthshireKincardineshire and Western AberdeenshireSouth AyrshireClackmannanshire and East StirlingshireEdinburgh CentralGlasgow CathcartHamiltonMotherwellGlasgow BridgetonGlasgow CamlachieGlasgow GorbalsStirling and Falkirk