1915 Kilmarnock Burghs by-election

The1915Kilmarnock Burghsby-electionwas held on 28 May 1915. Theby-electionwas held due to the incumbentLiberalMP,William Glynne Gladstone,being killed in action in theFirst World War.It was won by theLiberalcandidateHon. Alexander Shaw,^[1]who was unopposed. It was the last election held in Kilmarnock Burghs before the seat was abolished in 1918.

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1912	January:Carmarthen District February:Edinburgh East Glasgow St Rollox March:Manchester South Hereford South East Essex Leominster Epsom April:Nottingham East Forest of Dean May:Hackney South North West Norfolk June:Hythe Holmfirth July:Ilkeston Hanley Crewe August:Manchester North West East Carmarthenshire September:Midlothian November:Taunton Bolton Bow & Bromley
1913	January:Flint Boroughs Londonderry City February:East Waterford East Antrim Chorley March:Houghton-le-Spring Kendal April:Shrewsbury Whitechapel May:Newmarket Altrincham June:Leix Wandsworth Dover Leicester July:St George's, Hanover Square August:Chesterfield November:North Cork Linlithgowshire Reading Keighley December:Wick Burghs South Lanarkshire
1914	January:North West Durham February:Wycombe Cork City Bethnal Green South West Poplar Leith Burghs April:Belfast East East Fife May:Great Grimsby North East Derbyshire Ipswich June:Brighton Oxford University July:Birmingham West East Worcestershire North Galway August:Swansea District West Wicklow September:Bolton The Hartlepools November:Londonderry City December:East Galway Tullamore Sheffield Attercliffe
1915	February:Norwich Swansea District Scarborough Shipley Howdenshire Thirsk & Malton Wigtownshire Chesterton Saffron Walden Liverpool Kirkdale Mid Antrim Maidstone March:Carmarthen Boroughs April:Mid Durham May:Kilmarnock Burghs June:Preston Dublin College Green North Tipperary Keighley July:Arfon Glasgow Central October:Dublin Harbour Appleby November:Heywood Uxbridge Cardiff Kingston St Helens St Austell Merthyr Tydfil Tiverton December:Cleveland
1916	January:Newington West St George's, Hanover Square Portsmouth North West Staffordshire Chesterton Bradford Central Mile End Rotherham February:Liverpool East Toxteth North Louth South Tyrone Bolton Chester Droitwich March:Cockermouth Hertford South Shields Harborough Hyde April:Wimbledon Dublin University Ossory May:Tewkesbury South Londonderry Widnes July:Berwickshire August:Bodmin Berwick-upon-Tweed Colne Valley Abingdon September:Mansfield October:North Ayrshire St Pancras West Winchester North Fermanagh November:West Cork December:Hornsey Ashton-under-Lyne Sheffield Hallam Whitechapel Derby Edinburgh & St Andrews Universities
1917	January:Inverness-shire February:North Roscommon Dublin University Rotherham Rossendale West Perthshire Tamworth March:Stockton Oxford April:Aberdeen South Belfast South Ealing May:South Longford Edinburgh South June:Epping Henley Liverpool Abercromby July:Belfast South Fulham South Dublin East Clare South Monmouthshire Cambridge Chesterton Dundee August:Edinburgh & St Andrews Universities Kilkenny City Norwich October:Dublin University Islington East Spalding Basingstoke November:Salford North North Armagh December:Wisbech Southampton
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