List of MPs elected in the 1918 United Kingdom general election

This is a list of

The Parliament of 1918–22 had a poor reputation with contemporaries: John Maynard Keynes' "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" includes a famous remark about the Conservative MPs that "They are a lot of hard-faced men, who look as if they had done very well out of the war" which Keynes attributed to a Conservative friend.^[1] Keynes privately confirmed that the friend who originated the remark was Stanley Baldwin.^[2]

By-elections

See the

Seats vacant on dissolution

Eight seats were vacant when Parliament was dissolved preparatory to the 1922 general election:

• Tipperary East--Pierce McCan (Sinn Féin) died 6 March 1919
• Cork Mid--Terence MacSwiney (Sinn Féin) died 25 October 1920
• Dublin North--Frank Lawless (Sinn Féin) died 16 April 1922
• Longford--Joseph McGuinness (Sinn Féin) died 31 May 1922
• County Waterford--Cathal Brugha (Sinn Féin) died 7 July 1922
• Roscommon South--Harry Boland (Sinn Féin) died 2 August 1922
• Cavan East--Arthur Griffith (Sinn Féin) died 12 August 1922
• Cork South--Michael Collins (Sinn Féin) died 22 August 1922

These 5 seats, formed part of the

• Tyrone North-West--Arthur Griffith (Sinn Féin) died 12 August 1922 – seat replaced by Fermanagh and Tyrone
  for the House of Commons 1922 election.

• May: Unionist MPs in Northern Ireland are classified in this article as Ulster Unionists instead of Irish Unionists, due to the implementation of the Government of Ireland Act 1920 and the partition of Ireland.

References

• Walker, Brian M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.
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• Craig, F.W.S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949. Macmillan.
• Stenton, M.; Lees, S., eds. (1979). 'Who's Who of British members of parliament: Volume III 1919–1945. The Harvester Press.