East Tyrone by-election, 1918

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 by-election which had become vacant when his father, John Redmond, had died. The Sinn Féin candidate Vincent White had previously stood against Redmond in Waterford. 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 general election in Ireland.

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