• The 1902 Belfast South by-election was held on 18 August 1902 after the death of the Irish Unionist Party MP William Johnston. It was won by the Independent...
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    replaced by Belfast South and Mid Down, to be first contested at the 2024 United Kingdom general election. 1885–1918: In the Borough of Belfast, that part...
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  • by Thomas Sloan. Sloan was a superior speaker and organiser, and interest increased rapidly. He stood as an independent Unionist in the 1902 Belfast South...
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  • The Woolwich by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 25 April 1902. The constituency returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of...
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  • The 1902 Devonport by-election was held on 22 October 1902 after the death of one of the incumbents, Liberal politician E. J. C. Morton. The contest was...
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  • The 1902 Bury by-election was a by-election held in England on 10 May 1902 for the House of Commons constituency of Bury in Lancashire. It was the first...
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  • The 1902 Clitheroe by-election was held on 1 August 1902 after the incumbent Liberal MP Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth was elevated to the House of Lords...
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  • The 1902 South Monaghan by-election took place on 4 March 1902 following the resignation of the incumbent MP, James Daly of the Irish Parliamentary Party...
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  • The 1902 Sevenoaks by-election was held on 21 August 1902 after the appointment of the incumbent Conservative MP Henry Forster as Lord Commissioner of...
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    of Belfast West. In the 2019 and 2024 UK general elections, they retained only Belfast East, losing Belfast North to Sinn Féin and Belfast South to the...
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    The Hampstead by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 24 January 1902. The constituency returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House...
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  • The 1902 Cleveland by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Cleveland in the North Riding of Yorkshire...
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  • The 1902 Dewsbury by-election was a by-election held in England on 28 January 1902 for the House of Commons constituency of Dewsbury in the West Riding...
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  • The February 1902 South Down by-election was held on 19 February 1902. The by-election was held following the resignation of the previous member Michael...
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    Freedom War', 11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Transvaal War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between...
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  • The 1903 Belfast West by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 23 October 1903. The constituency returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the...
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  • 1905 Belfast North by-election was held on 14 September 1905 when the incumbent Irish Unionist MP, Sir James Horner Haslett died. It was retained by the...
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  • The 1902 North Kilkenny by-election was held on 26 February 1902 after resignation of the incumbent MP Patrick McDermott of the Irish Parliamentary Party...
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  • Unlike most Westminster by-elections, ministerial by-elections were often a formality, uncontested by opposition parties. Re-election was required under the...
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  • The 1902 East Worcestershire by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of East Worcestershire on 15 August...
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    (June 1900) and Belfast (August 1900); and eventually in Cape Colony, south of the Orange River. Following the end of the war in June 1902, he left Cape...
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  • The 1902 Leeds North by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Leeds North in the West Riding of...
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    The 1902 Orkney and Shetland by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 18–19 November 1902. The constituency returned one Member of Parliament...
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    William Johnston (Irish politician) (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Belfast constituencies (1801–1922))
    (22 February 1829 – 17 July 1902) was an Irish Orangeman, unionist and Member of Parliament for Belfast, distinguished by his independent working-class...
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  • Thomas Orr (politician) (category Irish emigrants to South Africa)
    Department. In 1902, Orr was appointed Auditor-General for Natal, holding the office until his retirement on the establishment of the Union of South Africa in...
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    suffrage In 1902, Johnston's successor as MP for South Belfast, Thomas Sloan, again was not the choice of employers. The campaign of the Belfast Protestant...
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  • Robert Harcourt (unionist politician) (category High sheriffs of Belfast)
    William Nixon, the independent Unionist MP for Belfast Woodvale, died. Harcourt stood in the ensuing by-election on 4 April 1950 and was elected. In 1955,...
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    (see below). Labour, who had pulled out in the south under instructions to 'wait', polled better in Belfast than Sinn Féin. Within the 26 counties that became...
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    the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, first in Belfast and then in Dublin. In Belfast, he was frustrated in his efforts to draw Protestant workers...
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    Second Boer War concentration camps (category 1902 disestablishments in South Africa)
    Second Anglo-Boer War which lasted from 1899–1902, the British operated concentration camps in the South African Republic, Orange Free State, Natal and...
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