The 1922

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by-election was held on 25 July 1922. The by-election was held due to the appointment of the incumbent Coalition Liberal MP,

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, as a

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. It was won by the Labour candidate Thomas Isaac Mardy Jones. It was the last of only eight

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not to be retained by the incumbent. The requirement for MPs who were appointed as ministers to seek re-election was entirely abolished by the Re-Election of Ministers Act (1919) Amendment Act 1926.

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