1913 Leicester by-election

[1] The constituency returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

He resigned from Parliament in 1913 following his being named as co-respondent in a divorce case brought by fellow Liberal Hubert Carr-Gomm the MP for Rotherhithe.

He had previously stood for the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) in Bradford East at the 1906 general election.

[3] He next stood for the SDF in the 1908 Newcastle by-election, then back in Bradford East in the January 1910 general election.

[6] In addition the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the local branch of the Independent Labour Party supported Hartley.

Ramsay Macdonald was defeated in Leicester West by a Unionist standing under a National Democratic and Labour Party label.