1916 Tewkesbury by-election

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The 1916 Tewkesbury by-election was held on 16 May 1916. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Michael Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington, in the First World War. It was won by the Conservative candidate William Frederick Hicks-Beach,{{cite web|url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080607022521/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm|archive-date=7 June 2008|title=Leigh Rayment - Commons|url-status=usurped|website=leighrayment.com}} Quenington's uncle, then aged 74.

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|title=1916 Tewkesbury by-election{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=FWS|title=British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918|date=1974|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=9781349022984}}Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party =Unionist Party (UK)

|candidate =William Hicks-Beach

|votes =7,127

|percentage =83.2

|change =+31.2

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Independent (politician)

|candidate =William J Boosey

|votes =1,438

|percentage =16.8

|change = New

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{{Election box majority|

|votes =5,689

|percentage =66.4

|change =+62.4

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{{Election box turnout|

|votes =8,565

|percentage =62.0

|change =-21.4

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{{Election box Registered electors|

|reg. electors =13,818

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{{Election box hold with party link|

|winner =Unionist Party (UK)

|swing =N/A

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