The 1915 Chesterton by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of the Chesterton or Western Division of Cambridgeshire on 13 February 1915.
Vacancy The by-election was caused by the appointment of the sitting Liberal MP, the Rt. Hon. Edwin Montagu as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster with a seat in the Cabinet.Chandrika Kaul, Edwin Samuel Montagu in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online, 2004-11 Under the Parliamentary rules of the day he had to resign and fight a by-election.
Candidates Montagu was re-selected to fight the seat by his local Liberal Association and as the wartime truce between the political parties was in operation The Times, 13 February 1915 p5 no opposing candidate was nominated against him.
The result There being no other candidates putting themselves forward Montagu was returned unopposed.F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results, 1885-1918; Macmillan Press, 1974 p227
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See also List of United Kingdom by-elections United Kingdom by-election records 1916 Chesterton by-election