BRITISH POLITICS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17280, 22 September 1916, Page 6

BRITISH POLITICS.

MANSFIELD BY-ELECTION

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.

(Received September 21, 10.55 p.m.) LONDON, September 21. /flic hy-election in the Mansfield division of Nottinghamshire to, fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sir A. B. .Markham (Liberal), resulted v-

Sir Charles Seely (Coalitionist) . 7597 Tprnbull (Independent) • • 440 b (Sir Charles* Seely is a colliery owher, and succeeded to tho baronetcy in '1915. He contested Mid-Derbyshire in 1880 as a Liberal-Unionist, and in 1892 was beaten bv Mr J. E. Ellis (Liberal),for the Rushcliffe division of Nottinghamshire. Three years later ho was returned for Lincoln by a narrow margin, heating thb Liberal candidate, and in 1900 .he defeated his Liberal oponent, Mr C. Roberts, hv 07 votes. In 1906, however, Dir Roberts was returned by a majority of 1392, and in 1910 Mr Seely, as lie was,then, was beaten by both.Mr Roberts and tho Conservative candidate. The Mansfield scat has boon strongly Liberal for many years.)