The1911Ross and Cromarty by-election was aParliamentary by-election held on 14 June 1911.^[1] It returned oneMember of Parliament (MP) to theHouse of Commons of theParliament of the United Kingdom, elected by thefirst past the post voting system.

James Galloway Weir died. He had been the sitting Liberal MP since 1892.

This was a safe Liberal seat that the party had won at every election since 1847. Weir was returned at the last general election in December 1910. The previous contested election before that was the General Election in January 1910;

• The Liberal candidate selected to defend the seat was 31-year-oldIan Macpherson. He was educated at theUniversity of Edinburgh and wascalled to the Bar, by theMiddle Temple in 1906.^{[citation needed]} He had contestedWigtownshire in January 1910 andEast Renfrewshire in December 1910.
• The Liberal Unionist candidate was the 35-year-oldWilliam Paterson Templeton. He was the Organising Secretary of Unionist Workers' League. He was standing for Parliament for the first time.^[3]

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Polling took place on 14 June. Macpherson easily held the seat for the Liberals. Compared with the last contested election, his share of the vote only dropped by 1%;

A General Election was due to take place by the end of 1915. By the autumn of 1914, the following candidates had been adopted to contest that election.

• Liberal:Ian Macpherson

Due to the outbreak of war, the election was postponed. Macpherson supported the Lloyd George Coalition Government and received their endorsement at the 1918 election.

Templeton did not contest the 1918 elections but was later elected as MP forBanffshire.

• 1911 elections in the United Kingdom
• 1911 in Scotland
• 1910s elections in Scotland
• June 1911 in the United Kingdom
• By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Scottish constituencies
• Politics of the county of Ross and Cromarty

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