Arfon by-election, 1911

The Arfon by-election, 1911 was a parliamentary by-election held on 11 February 1911 for the Arfon division of Caernarvonshire in North Wales, a constituency of the British House of Commons. It was the first by-election to be held after the December 1910 general election.

The by-election was held because the sitting Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) William Jones had been appointed as a Junior Lord of the Treasury in H. H. Asquith's Liberal government, and until the 1920s MPs appointed to positions in government had to seek re-election. Jones had held the seat since the 1895 general election, and at the by-election he was re-elected unopposed.^[1]

Jones died in 1915, triggering another by-election

References

1. "Carnavonshire (Arfon)". Dublin Daily Express. 13 February 1911 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).

• Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 469. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs