page_title: 1911 North East Lanarkshire by-election
section_title: Candidates
hierarchical_section_title: 1911 North East Lanarkshire by-election / Candidates
caption_attribution_description: English: John Robertson, prominent trade unionist and future Labour MP. Taken in or before 1905.
context_page_description: The North East Lanarkshire by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
context_section_description: Although there had been no Labour candidate at the last election, there had been a Labour candidate in January 1910, who finished bottom of the poll. For this by-election, John Robertson was selected as the Labour candidate and was sponsored by the Scottish Miners' Federation. This was the first instance in the 1910-18 parliament in which Liberal and Labour candidates had opposed each other. Labour's intervention to contest this Liberal seat gave the Unionists a real hope of winning.
caption: John Robertson
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