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1873 Shaftesbury by-election

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The Shaftesbury by-election of 1873 was held on 30 August 1873. The by-election was held due to the succession to the peerage of the incumbent MP of the Liberal Party, George Glyn. It was won by the Conservative candidate Vere Fane Benett-Stanford.[1]

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