1918 East Tyrone by-election

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 City by-election which had become vacant when his father, John Redmond, had died. The Sinn Féin candidate was Seán Milroy. 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 Irish general election.

By-election 3 April 1918: Tyrone East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Irish Nationalist	Thomas Harbison	1802	59.6
	Sinn Féin	Seán Milroy	1222	40.4
Majority			580	19.1
Turnout			3024	43.92
	Irish Nationalist hold		Swing

References

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