The 1908

Bewdley Bewdley ( pronunciation) is a town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District in Worcestershire, England on the banks of the River Severn. It is in the Severn Valley west of Kidderminster and southwest of Birmingham. It lies on the Riv ...

by-election was held on 29 February 1908. The

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was held due to the death of the incumbent

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MP, Alfred Baldwin. It was won by his son and the future Prime Minister, the

candidate Stanley Baldwin, who was unopposed.

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