• The 1880 Barnstaple by-election occurred in Barnstaple, Devon on 12 February 1880. The seat was held by the Liberal Party. Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977)...
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  • Barnstaple by-election may refer to: 1880 Barnstaple by-election 1910 Barnstaple by-election 1911 Barnstaple by-election This disambiguation page lists...
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  • Unlike most Westminster by-elections, ministerial by-elections were often a formality, uncontested by opposition parties. Re-election was required under the...
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    Barnstaple was a constituency centred on the town of Barnstaple in Devon, in the South West of England. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House...
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  • The 1880 Drogheda by-election was fought on 2 March 1880. The byelection, to the United Kingdom House of Commons, arose through the death of the incumbent...
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  • The 1880 Southwark by-election was fought on 13 February 1880. The by-election was fought due to the death of the incumbent Liberal MP, John Locke. It...
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  • The 1880 Kilkenny City by-election took place on 26 February 1880. It arose due to the resignation of the incumbent Liberal MP, Benjamin Whitworth, in...
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    general election (covering a smaller area than before). Prior to 1950, its territory was split between the old constituencies of Barnstaple and South...
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  • The 1880 West Norfolk by-election was contested on 8 March 1880. The by-election, which occurred in 1880, was fought due to the passing of the incumbent...
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  • The February 1880 Liverpool by-election was fought on 6 February 1880. The by-election was fought due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, John...
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  • sat from 1874–1880. Robert Carden was 78 when he returned to the house in 1880, after a 21-year absence, as the member for Barnstaple. He had sat for...
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    Newton Wallop, 6th Earl of Portsmouth (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Barnstaple)
    Lymington was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnstaple at a by-election in February 1880, a seat he held until 1885 when representation was reduced...
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    Sir William Fraser, 4th Baronet (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Barnstaple)
    Barnstaple in 1852, but the election was declared void on account of bribery, and the constituency was disfranchised for two years. At the election of...
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  • but was defeated. He came forward again at the general election of 1880, standing for Barnstaple, but was again defeated. He was a leading member of the...
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  • The 1875 Whitehaven by-election was fought on 16 December 1875. The by-election was fought due to the incumbent Conservative MP, George Cavendish-Bentinck...
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    Samuel Danks Waddy (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Barnstaple)
    of Parliament (MP) for Barnstaple, Devon on 3 February 1874 but resigned this seat in December 1879 to stand in a by-election in the Sheffield constituency...
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  • smaller constituencies of Ashburton (alternatively the Mid Division), Barnstaple (the North-Western Division), Honiton (the Eastern Division), South Molton...
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  • members of Parliament (MPs) elected in the 1880 general election, held from March to April 1880. The election in Macclesfield was voided on petition, and...
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  • James Dickson, who was elected as a Liberal at a by-election for the Borough of Dungannon on 25 June 1880. He was born on 19 April 1859, and so was aged 21...
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  • were published in 1880 and 1885 by the same publisher. Leigh, Hon. Chandos; Le Marchant, Sir Henry, Bt. (1880). A guide to Election Law and the Law and...
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  • The 1910 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 20 July 1910 for the British House of Commons constituency...
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    West Bromwich Improvement Amendment Act 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. cxxxviii) Barnstaple Roads Act 1841 (4 & 5 Vict. c. xxi) Carnarvonshire Railway Act 1862 (25...
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  • Tudor Rees (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Barnstaple)
    602 votes. Rees was unable to hold his seat at Barnstaple at the 1922 general election losing narrowly by just 174 votes in a straight fight with the Conservative...
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    Ernest Soares (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Barnstaple)
    Princes Gate, London, and of Upcott House in the parish of Pilton, near Barnstaple in North Devon, was a British solicitor and Liberal politician. Soares...
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    George Newnes (category Lynton and Barnstaple Railway)
    the 19-mile Lynton and Barnstaple Railway opened in 1898 ostensibly to bring visitors from the mainline railways at Barnstaple. (He was also involved...
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  • Meath by-election was fought on 17 April 1875. The byelection was fought due to the death of the incumbent Home Rule MP, John Martin. It was won by the...
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  • Ennis by-election was fought on 26 July 1879. The byelection was fought due to the death of the incumbent Home Rule MP, William Stacpoole. It was won by the...
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  • Liskeard by-election was fought on 22 December 1876. The byelection was fought due to the death of the incumbent Liberal MP, Edward Horsman. It was won by the...
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  • election, held over several days from 24 November 1885 to 18 December 1885. See List of United Kingdom by-elections (1885–1900) UK general election,...
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  • The Hartlepools by-election was fought on 29 July 1875. The by-election was fought due to the resignation of the incumbent Liberal MP, Thomas Richardson...
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