1879 East Somerset by-election

The East Somerset by-election of 1879 was fought on 19 March 1879. The byelection was fought due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, Ralph Shuttleworth Allen. It was won by the Conservative candidate Lord Brooke.^[1]

References

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1874	March: Chicester New Shoreham Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities Liverpool North Hampshire Oxford University Dublin University Huntingdon Mid Surrey North Lincolnshire Portsmouth Buckinghamshire East Gloucestershire Eye Monmouthshire North Northumberland County Dublin North Devonshire North Northamptonshire Invernesshire South Devonshire South West Lancashire East Suffolk Galway North Leicestershire North Staffordshire Falkirk Burghs North Lancashire April: County Louth Hackney Preston May: Wakefield Stroud Dudley Poole Mayo June: City of Durham Haverfordwest Oxford North Durham Galway July: Launceston Stroud Kidderminster September: Midhurst October: Cambridgeshire Northampton November: Wenlock Birkenhead December: St Ives
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1877	January: County Sligo County Waterford February: Dublin University Wilton Halifax March: Oldham Launceston April: Salford May: Montgomery Boroughs Tipperary June: Dungarvan Huntingdonshire August: Great Grimsby South Shropshire Westminster Clare North Northamptonshire
1878	January: Greenock Leith Burghs Perth Marlborough February: Perthshire Oxfordshire York March: Canterbury Cirencester Hereford Mid Somerset East Somerset Worcester April: Belfast North Lancashire Middlesex South Northumberland Tamworth North Staffordshire May: Carmarthen Boroughs West Kent Oxford University Reading June: Rochester Southampton July: Middlesbrough Flint Boroughs August: Haddington Burghs Boston Newcastle-under-Lyme Argyllshire September: Truro October: Peterborough December: Maldon Bristol New Ross County Londonderry
1879	January: North Norfolk Cambridgeshire February: County Cork South Warwickshire Haddington Burghs March: East Somerset April: Longford Cockermouth East Cumberland May: Canterbury Clare Limerick City July: Glasgow Ennis September: Elginshire and Nairnshire December: Donegal Sheffield
1880	February: Liverpool Barnstaple Southwark Kilkenny City March: Drogheda West Norfolk
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