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1920 Ashton-under-Lyne by-election

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Candidate	de Frece	Robinson	Marshall
Party	Unionist	Labour	Liberal
Popular vote	8,864	8,127	3,511
Percentage	43.3%	39.6%	17.1%

MP before election

Stanley
Unionist

Subsequent MP

de Frece
Unionist

The 1920 Ashton-under-Lyne by-election was a by-election held on 31 January 1920 for the British House of Commons constituency of Ashton-under-Lyne.

The by-election was triggered by the elevation to the peerage of the town's Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) Albert Stanley, who was ennobled as Baron Ashfield.

The result was a victory for the Conservative candidate Sir Walter de Frece, who held the seat with a massively reduced majority.

British Pathe has a newsreel clip of Sir Walter de Frece campaigning in the by-election with his wife Vesta Tilley.^[1]

Votes and result

Ashton-under-Lyne by-election, 1920
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
C	Unionist	Walter de Frece	8,864	43.3	−15.0
	Labour	William Robinson	8,127	39.6	New
	Liberal	Arthur Marshall	3,511	17.1	New
Majority			738	3.7	−12.9
Turnout			20,502	82.3	+13.9
	Unionist hold		Swing
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

References

^ "MISS VESTA TILLEY". British Pathé. Retrieved 13 June 2024.

Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs