1886 County Carlow by-election

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The County Carlow by-election, 1886 was a parliamentary by-election held for the United Kingdom House of Commons constituency of County Carlow on 29 January 1886.^[1] The sitting member, Edmund Dwyer Gray had been re-elected in the general election of 1885, but having run and been elected also in the new constituency of Dublin St Stephen's Green, he chose to sit for the latter.^[2] The County Carlow seat thus became vacant, and in the ensuing by-election, another Irish Nationalist candidate, John Aloysius Blake, was elected unopposed.^[1]^[3]

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References

1 2 The Times, 30 January 1886.
↑ G. B. Smith, ‘Gray, Edmund Dwyer (1845–1888)’, rev. Alan O'Day, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2006, accessed 7 May 2008.
↑ The Constitutional Year Book, 1904, published by Conservative Central Office, page 187 (211 in web page)

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[Times-1] 1 2 The Times, 30 January 1886.

[2] G. B. Smith, ‘Gray, Edmund Dwyer (1845–1888)’, rev. Alan O'Day, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2006, accessed 7 May 2008.

[Year_Book-3] The Constitutional Year Book, 1904, published by Conservative Central Office, page 187 (211 in web page)