Notes
- ↑ "Election Notice". Taranaki Herald . 15 June 1861.
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The 1861 Grey and Bell by-election was a by-election held on 20 June during the 3rd New Zealand Parliament in the Taranaki electorate of Grey and Bell.
The by-election was caused by the death of the incumbent MP William Cutfield King on 8 February 1861.
The by-election was won by Harry Atkinson.
Atkinson was unopposed, and was duly declared elected. [1]
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