Related Research Articles
Richard Thain Alexander was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Newark in Nottinghamshire until losing his seat in the landslide of the 1997 general election.
Newark is a constituency in Nottinghamshire, England. It is represented by Robert Jenrick of the Conservative Party, who won the seat in a by-election on 5 June 2014, following the resignation of Patrick Mercer in April 2014.
Bassetlaw is a parliamentary constituency in Nottinghamshire, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since the 2024 general election by Jo White, a Labour Party candidate. Before the 2019 general election, the seat had been part of the so-called "red wall", being held by the Labour Party since 1935 before falling to the Conservative Party.
East Retford was a parliamentary constituency in Nottinghamshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons for the first time in 1316, and continuously from 1571 until 1885, when the constituency was abolished. Although East Retford was technically a parliamentary borough for the whole of its existence, in 1830 its franchise had been widened and its boundaries had been extended to include the whole Wapentake of Bassetlaw as a remedy for corruption among the voters, and from that point onward it resembled a county constituency in most respects.
The 1876 Leominster by-election was a by-election held on 15–16 February 1876 for the British House of Commons constituency of Leominster in Herefordshire.
The 1876 East Suffolk by-election was fought on 22 February 1876. The by-election was fought due to the succession to a peerage of the incumbent Conservative MP, Viscount Mahon. It was won by the Conservative candidate Frederick St John Barne.
The 1876 Ipswich by-election was fought on 1 January 1876. The by-election was fought due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, John Cobbold. It was won by his younger brother the Conservative candidate Thomas Cobbold.
The 1876 South Shropshire by-election was fought on 3 November 1876. The by-election was fought due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Percy Egerton Herbert. It was won by the unopposed Conservative candidate John Edmund Severne.
The 1876 Donegal by-election was fought on 26 August 1876. The by-election was fought due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Thomas Conolly. It was won by the Conservative candidate William Wilson, who beat the Liberal candidate, Thomas Lea, former member for Kidderminster, by 1,975 votes to 1,876, a majority of 99.
The 1876 Pembrokeshire by-election was fought on 26 June 1876. The by-election was fought due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, John Scourfield. It was won by the Conservative candidate James Bevan Bowen.
The 1876 East Cumberland by-election was fought on 26 April 1876. The by-election was fought due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, William Nicholson Hodgson. It was won by the Liberal candidate Stafford Howard.
The 1876 North Norfolk by-election was fought on 21 April 1876. The by-election was fought due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Frederick Walpole. It was won by the Conservative candidate James Duff.
The 1876 Horsham by-election was held on 29 February 1876. The by-election was fought due to the previous by-election being declared void. This had resulted in the election of the Liberal MP Robert Henry Hurst (junior).
The 1876 Berkshire by-election was fought on 23 February 1876. The by-election was fought due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, Richard Fellowes Benyon. It was won by the Conservative candidate Philip Wroughton in an all Conservative fight.
The 1876 Huntingdon by-election was fought on 16 February 1876. The by-election was fought due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, John Burgess Karslake. It was won by the unopposed Conservative candidate Viscount Hinchingbrooke.
The 1876 Enniskillen by-election was held on 15 February 1876. The by-election was fought due to the incumbent Conservative MP, John Crichton, becoming Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. It was retained by the incumbent.
The 1876 North Shropshire by-election was fought on 3 February 1876. The by-election was fought due to the elevation to the peerage of the incumbent Conservative MP, John Ormsby-Gore. It was won by the Conservative candidate Stanley Leighton.
The 1876 Dorset by-election was fought on 3 February 1876. The by-election was fought due to the elevation to the peerage of the incumbent Conservative MP, Henry Sturt. It was won by the Conservative candidate Edward Digby. The other candidate stood as a "Conservative, and tenant farmer" candidate.
William Levinz of Grove Hall and Bilby, Nottinghamshire was a British lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1702 and 1734. He fought a duel with an opposing Whig agent.
The 2019 Bassetlaw District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect all 48 members of Bassetlaw District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- ↑ "East Retford Election" . Leamington Spa Courier. 26 February 1876 – via British Newspaper Archive.
   | This article about a by-election to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in England is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |