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Election | Political result | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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Kerry by-election, 1872 Succession to peerage by Viscount Castlerosse | Home Rule gain from Liberal | Rowland Blennerhassett | Home Rule | 62 | New | |||
J. A. Dease | Liberal | 38 |
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