This is a list of parliamentary by-elections in the United Kingdom held between 1857 and 1868, with the names of the previous incumbent and the victor in the by-election and their respective parties. Where seats changed political party at the election, the result is highlighted: light blue for a Conservative gain, orange for a Whig (after 1859 Liberal) gain, and grey for any other gain.
Resignations
- See Resignation from the British House of Commons for more details.
Where the cause of by-election is given as "resignation" or "seeks re-election", this indicates that the incumbent was appointed on his own request to an "office of profit under the Crown", either the Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, the Steward of the Manor of Northstead or the Steward of the Manor of Hempholme. These appointments are made as a constitutional device for leaving the House of Commons, whose Members are not permitted to resign.
By-elections
References
- ↑ "Death of George Colthurst". The Times. 26 September 1878. p. 8.
- ↑ "Election Intelligence". Morning Advertiser. 12 March 1857. p. 3 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Electioneering Intelligence". Sussex Advertiser. 17 March 1857. p. 7 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ Courtney, William Prideaux (1899). Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co. . In
- ↑ Elizabeth Waterston. "George Drought Warburton". Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
- ↑ Howe, Anthony; Morgan, Simon; Bannerman, Gordon, eds. (2007). The Letters of Richard Cobden: Volume II ~ 1848–1853. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-19-921196-8.
- ↑ MacDonagh, Michael (1899). Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co. . In
- ↑ Eldridge, C. C. (1973). "England's Mission". England's Mission: The Imperial Idea in the Age of Gladstone & Disraeli, 1868–1880. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 118. ISBN 978-1-349-01879-6.
- List of MPs since 1660[usurped]
- British Parliamentary election Results 1832-1885, compiled and edited by F. W. S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1977)
- F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary election Statistics 1832-1987
- F. W. S. Craig, Chronology of British Parliamentary By-elections 1833-1987
- Parliamentary election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B. M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)