Talk:1916 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election

This article is rated Stub-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

North East England Low‑importance

	North East England portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject North East England, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of North East England on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.North East EnglandWikipedia:WikiProject North East EnglandTemplate:WikiProject North East EnglandNorth East England articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Elections and Referendums

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Elections and Referendums, an ongoing effort to improve the quality of, expand upon and create new articles relating to elections, electoral reform and other aspects of democratic decision-making. For more information, visit our project page.Elections and ReferendumsWikipedia:WikiProject Elections and ReferendumsTemplate:WikiProject Elections and ReferendumsElections and Referendums articles

Politics of the United Kingdom Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Politics of the United Kingdom on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Politics of the United KingdomWikipedia:WikiProject Politics of the United KingdomTemplate:WikiProject Politics of the United KingdomPolitics of the United Kingdom articles

Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

More information:
/
	This article has been automatically rated by a bot or other tool as Stub-class because it uses a stub template. Please ensure the assessment is correct before removing the `\|auto=` parameter.

Party labels

The exact description of the candidates is disputable. Craig in British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 describes Blake as Liberal and Turnbull as Independent. Debretts House of Commons & Judicial Bench of 1918 describes Blake as Coalition Liberald and Turnbull as Independent. The Times 18-8-16 describes Blake as Coalition and Turnbull as Independent. These sources undermine the Kalgoorlie Miner's description of Turnbull as an Independent Liberal. At the time of the by-election, Herbert Asquith led a coalition government. At this point in history few differentiated between Liberals who supported the government compared with those who didn't so I would argue the prefix 'Coalition' is not warranted. I think the most accurate description based on what we know is Blake - Liberal and Turnbull - Independent, which is what Craig says and generally I take Craig to be the authority on matters such as this.Graemp (talk) 13:39, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Independent Liberal is more descriptive as to why Turnbull stood than Independent, although to be fair there's nothing apart from that description. JASpencer (talk) 12:50, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, I have often added a suffix to Independent where only mentioned in some sources however I think in this case it could lead to confusion in some people thinking that Blake was a Lloyd George Liberal and Turnbull an Asquith Liberal.Graemp (talk) 13:39, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OK, that makes sense. I'll add a hyperlink in the text and be done with it. JASpencer (talk) 14:09, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]