1919 Liverpool West Derby
The 1919 Liverpool West Derby by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 26 February 1919 for the British House of Commons constituency of Liverpool West Derby , in the County Palatine of Lancashire .
Vacancy
The seat had become vacant on the elevation to the peerage of the constituency's Unionist Member of Parliament (MP), F. E. Smith , as Baron Birkenhead . He had been raised to the peerage to take up the post of Lord Chancellor .
Electoral history
Smith had held the seat since the 1918 general election , when he was endorsed by the Coalition Government . Before that he held its predecessor seat, Liverpool Walton since the 1906 general election .
Sir F.E. Smith, newly created Lord Birkenhead
Results
Turnout was unsurprisingly low so soon after a General Election. Hall won the seat by a much reduced margin.
Sir Reginald Hall