• 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 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 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 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 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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     'Second Freedom War', 11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the...
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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 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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    stronghold of Belfast West. In the 2019 UK general election, they retained only Belfast East, losing Belfast North to Sinn Féin and Belfast South to the SDLP...
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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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    standing down at the 1983 election. Craig and Bradford were the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party MPs for Belfast East & Belfast South respectively from February...
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    general election: Aberavon Aberconwy Angus Arfon Argyll and Bute Banff and Buchan Barnsley Central Barnsley East Batley and Spen Beckenham Belfast South Berwick-upon-Tweed...
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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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  • 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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    Thomas Sloan (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Belfast constituencies (1801–1922))
    nominee, he represented the Belfast South constituency as an Independent Unionist at the Westminster parliament from 1902 to 1910. He and members of the...
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  • Independence Party: 2014 Clacton by-election First by-election gain by a Northern Ireland party: 1943 Belfast West by-election (Northern Ireland Labour Party...
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    The Orkney and Shetland by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 18–19 November 1902. The constituency returned one Member of Parliament (MP)...
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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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    (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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    south were to meet. Among other issues, the first pact (21 January 1922) called for the ending of the ongoing "Belfast Boycott" of northern goods by the...
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