1918 East Tyrone by-election

The 1918 East Tyrone by-election was held on 3 April 1918. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Irish Parliamentary Party MP, William Redmond. It was won by the Irish Parliamentary candidate Thomas Harbison.[1]

Redmond had resigned in order to contest the Waterford City by-election which had become vacant when his father, John Redmond, had died. The Sinn Féin candidate was Seán Milroy. The by-election was the last in a short string of by-elections where it seemed that the more moderate nationalists were regaining ground from Sinn Féin before being virtually wiped out in the 1918 United Kingdom general election in Ireland.

By-election 3 April 1918: East Tyrone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish Nationalist Thomas Harbison 1,802 59.6 +8.4
Sinn Féin Seán Milroy 1,222 40.4 New
Majority 580 19.2 +16.8
Turnout 3,024 43.9 −49.2
Irish Nationalist hold Swing

References

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs


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