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The City of Auckland by-election of 1895 was a by-election held on 24 July 1895 during the 12th New Zealand Parliament in the urban seat of the City of Auckland.
The contest was won by Thomas Thompson of the Liberal Party. Thompson convincingly beat the conservative candidate Richard Monk recording nearly a two thousand vote majority. [1]
The by-election was triggered due to the resignation of sitting MP George Grey. [2] Thomas Thompson was the Liberal Party candidate. He had previously represented the Auckland North electorate from 1884 to 1890, then the City of Auckland electorate from 1890 to 1893. [3] His sole opponent was Richard Monk, previous Waitemata MP from 1886 to 1890, then from 1893 to 9 February 1894 when his election was declared void. [4]
The following table gives the election results:
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Liberal | Thomas Thompson | 5,528 | 60.99 | ||
| Conservative | Richard Monk | 3,535 | 39.01 | ||
| Majority | 1,993 | 21.99 | |||
| Turnout | 9,063 | ||||
Thompson represented the seat until he retired as an MP in 1899. [3] In 1903 he was elevated to sit in the Legislative Council until his term ended on 17 March 1917. [5]
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The 1892 Rangitikei by-election was a by-election held during the 11th New Zealand Parliament in the Rangitikei electorate of the North Island. This was the fifth by-election since the Rangitikei electorate was established for the 1861 election. The previous by-election took place in 1880 and the following one took place in 1909. Robert Bruce, who had previously been the MP for Rangitikei between 1884 and 1890, won the by-election narrowly.
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