page_title: 1914 North West Durham by-election
section_title: Candidates
hierarchical_section_title: 1914 North West Durham by-election / Candidates
caption_attribution_description: English: George Harold Stuart, later G. H. Stuart-Bunning, Parliamentary Secretary of the Postmen's Federation. Taken in or before 1905.
context_page_description: The North West Durham by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 30 January 1914. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
context_section_description: The Liberal candidate adopted on 4 January 1914 was the radical Aneurin Williams. He was Liberal MP for Plymouth (UK Parliament constituency) between the two general elections of 1910. He was chairman of the executive committee of the Land Nationalisation Society and a director of the First Garden City Ltd. He belonged to a Middlesbrough firm of ironmasters.
  The Unionist candidate was James Ogden Hardicker. He had been their defeated candidate at the last General Election in December 1910.
  The Labour Party decided to intervene, having never fielded a candidate here before. Their candidate, 44-year-old G. H. Stuart-Bunning was well travelled. He had stood at the York division of Yorkshire at the 1906 general election, then in the 1908 Dundee by-election in Scotland, then at the January 1910 general election at Eccles in Lancashire, before alighting in Durham. In each case he had finished bottom of the poll. He had no links to the constituency or to the mining industry. He was sponsored by the Postmen's Federation.
caption: Stuart-Bunning
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