1909 Edinburgh East by-election

1909 Edinburgh East by-election

← 1906 16 April 1909 Jan. 1910 →
 
Candidate Gibson Ford
Party Liberal Liberal Unionist
Popular vote 4,527 4,069
Percentage 52.7% 47.3%

MP before election

Sir George McCrae
Liberal

Subsequent MP

Sir James Gibson
Liberal

The Edinburgh East by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 16 April 1909.[1] The constituency returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

  1. ^ Craig, F.W.S. (1987). Chronology of British Parliamentary By-elections 1833–1987. Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 103.