East Tyrone by-election, 1918

The East Tyrone by-election of 1918 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 by-election which had become vacant when his father, John Redmond, had died. The Sinn Féin candidate Vincent White had previously stood against Redmond in Waterford. 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 general election in Ireland.

By-election 3 April 1918: Tyrone East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Irish Nationalist	Thomas James Stanislaus Harbison	1802	70.7
	Sinn Féin	Dr Vincent Joseph White	745	29.3
Majority			1057	41.4
Turnout			6885	37.0
	Irish Nationalist hold		Swing

References

1. http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm