1919 Manx general election

General elections were held in the Isle of Man between 27 October and 6 November 1919. Independent candidates won a majority of seats in the House of Keys.^[1]

Electoral system

The 24 members of the House of Keys were elected from 11 constituencies,^[2] which had between one and three seats.

Constituency	Electorate	Seats	Date of election
Ayre	2,231	3	31 October
Castletown	–	1	N/A
Douglas North	10,285	3	4 November
Douglas South	3,994	2	4 November
Garff	2,414	2	30 October
Glenfaba	2,617	3	27 October
Michael	1,395	2	31 October
Middle	3,295	3	30 October
Peel	2,180	1	6 November
Ramsey	2,961	1	4 November
Rushen	4,475	3	3 November
Source: Sherratt

Campaign

A total of 47 candidates contested the elections; 28 independents, 11 from the Manx Labour Party, 5 from the National Party and three from the Liberal Party.^[1] There was only one candidate in Castletown, who was elected unopposed.^[3]

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Manx Labour Party	8,675	21.61	4
	Liberal Party	6,412	15.97	2
	National Party	4,733	11.79	1
	Independents	20,326	50.63	17
Total		40,146	100.00	24
Registered voters/turnout		35,847	–
Source: Sherratt

By constituency

Constituency	Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Notes
Ayre	W.C. Southward	Independent	922	27.4	Re-elected
	J.D. Clucas	Independent	884	26.3	Elected
	D.J. Teare	Independent	750	22.3	Elected
	R. Cain	Independent	548	16.3
	S.W. Anderson	Independent	255	7.6	Unseated
Castletown	Joseph Davidson Qualtrough	Independent	–	–	Re-elected unopposed
Douglas North	S. Norris	Independent	2,469	17.7	Elected
	R.C. Cain	Liberal Party	2,279	16.3	Elected
	J. Cunningham	Liberal Party	2,105	15.1	Re-elected
	R.B. Moore	Liberal Party	2,028	14.5
	C.T.W. Hughes-Games	National Party	1,484	10.6
	W.T. Pickett	Manx Labour Party	1,436	10.3
	M. Carine	National Party	1,339	9.6	Unseated
	J. Garside	National Party	665	4.8	Unseated
	W.G.G.T. Hargrave	Independent	176	1.3
Douglas South	A.J. Teare	Manx Labour Party	1,131	30.2	Elected
	J.L. Goldie Taubman	National Party	936	25.0	Re-elected
	G.J. Burtonwood	Independent	808	21.6
	T.M.L. Quayle	Manx Labour Party	559	14.9
	J. Corkill	National Party	309	8.3
Garff	J.R. Kerruish	Independent	776	27.6	Re-elected
	T.S. Corlett	Independent	766	27.2	Elected
	W. Dickinson	Manx Labour Party	669	23.8
	T. Crossley	Manx Labour Party	601	21.4
Glenfaba	E. Callister	Independent	789	26.7	Re-elected
	F.S. Dalgleish	Independent	780	26.4	Re-elected
	G.B. Kermode	Independent	758	25.6	Elected
	W.P. Clucas	Manx Labour Party	632	21.4
Michael	E.J. Curphey	Independent	502	43.0	Re-elected
	R.S. Corlett	Independent	496	42.5	Re-elected
	C. Gill	Manx Labour Party	170	14.6
Middle	George Frederick Clucas	Independent	927	24.5	Elected
	C. Gill	Independent	850	22.5	Elected
	T.G. Bridson	Manx Labour Party	735	19.4	Elected
	W.F. Cowell	Independent	706	18.6	Unseated
	W. Christian	Independent	568	15.0	Unseated
Peel	Christopher R. Shimmin	Manx Labour Party	872	63.8	Elected
	W.O. Quayle	Independent	494	36.2
Ramsey	A.H. Teare	Independent	1,173	58.7	Re-elected
	A. Hadley	Manx Labour Party	827	41.4
Rushen	J.R. Corrin	Manx Labour Party	1,043	21.0	Elected
	J. Qualtrough	Independent	959	19.3	Re-elected
	A. Qualtrough	Independent	823	16.6	Re-elected
	W. Moore	Independent	814	16.4
	J.J. Qualtrough	Independent	659	13.3
	T.F. Quine	Independent	587	11.8	Unseated
	J. Cowley	Independent	87	1.7
Source: Sherratt

Aftermath

Following the elections, W.C. Southward (Ayre), J.R. Kerruish (Garff), J. Cunningham (Douglas North) and J. Qualtrough (Rushen) were elevated to the Legislative Council. By-elections were subsequently held for their replacements in mid-December:

Constituency	Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Notes
Ayre 19 December	R. Cain	Independent	787	55.2	Elected
	T.E. Kneen	Independent	639	44.8
Garff 18 December	W. Kermeen	Independent	736	55.9	Elected
	E. Oliver	Independent	580	44.1
Douglas North 19 December	R.B. Moore	Liberal Party	1,715	81.1	Elected
	W.T. Pickett	Independent Labour	399	18.9
Rushen 23 December	W. Moore	Independent	973	54.1	Elected
	C.A. Cormode	Manx Labour Party	826	45.9
Source: Sherratt