1880 Derby by-election - Misplaced Pages

UK Parliamentary by-election

The 1880 Derby by-election was held on 26 May when the incumbent Liberal MP Samuel Plimsoll resigned to find a seat for the recently unseated Home Secretary William Vernon Harcourt.

The Liberals had formed a government after winning the 1880 general election and Harcourt, a well known radical and talented debater, had been offered the job of Home Secretary. Under the law at the time he had to resign his seat and seek re-election. In a close fought by-election Harcourt lost his Oxford seat.

Samuel Plimsoll immediately resigned and Harcourt was unopposed in the subsequent by-election.

References

Otte, Thomas; Otte, T. G.; Readman, Paul (2013). By-Elections in British Politics, 1832-1914. ISBN 9781843837800.

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1880	May: Hackney Bath Birmingham Bradford Chester Kidderminster Marlborough Nottingham Oxford Pontefract Sheffield Taunton Durham City Hastings Leeds Midlothian Shrewsbury Haverfordwest Boroughs Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire Denbighshire Radnor Boroughs Mallow North East Lancashire Sandwich Wigtown Burghs Londonderry County Meath Derby Wycombe Louth Mayo June: London University Bandon Dungannon July: Gravesend Wallingford Bute Evesham Plymouth Tewkesbury Bewdley Lichfield Berwick-upon-Tweed Scarborough Wigtown Burghs August: Liverpool November: Wexford Borough Caernarvonshire Renfrewshire December: Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire Reading Kendal
1881	January: Wigan Edinburgh April: Northampton March: Coventry February: South Northamptonshire January: New Ross February: East Cumberland April: St Ives Sunderland West Cheshire May: Knaresborough Preston July: Elgin Burghs August: Edinburgh Leeds Elgin Burghs September: North Lincolnshire North Durham Cambridgeshire Tyrone October: Berwick-upon-Tweed November: Tiverton Stafford December: Londonderry County
1882	January: Carmarthen Boroughs North Riding of Yorkshire February: Preston Westminster Taunton Meath March: Northampton Malmesbury Caernarvon Boroughs East Cornwall April: Meath West Somerset May: Hawick Burghs Northern West Riding of Yorkshire June: Banffshire August: Halifax Haddington Burghs November: Edinburgh Ennis Salisbury Preston Cambridge University December: Wigan Liverpool
1883	January: Chelsea Mallow February: Haddingtonshire Newcastle upon Tyne Dublin County Westmeath Portarlington March: Wycombe Mid Cheshire Tipperary April: Southampton June: Derby Wexford County North Leicestershire Peterborough Hastings Monaghan July: Wexford Borough August: Sligo County East Essex Rutland October: Manchester November: Limerick City York December: Ipswich Wigan
1884	January: Londonderry County February: Paisley West Somerset Northampton South Lincolnshire West Norfolk Cork City Meath March: Brighton Cambridgeshire Huntingdon April: Poole May: Mid Kent June: Athlone Lincoln Mid Surrey South Hampshire Leicester North Warwickshire August: South Devon Ross and Cromarty Waterford County October: Radnor Boroughs Stirling Burghs November: Scarborough South Warwickshire Hackney Greenock Scarborough Down December: Knaresborough
1885	January: Tipperary March: Mid Somerset West Gloucestershire Glasgow May: Antrim Denbighshire June: Westminster Hertford July: Dublin University East Gloucestershire Eye Launceston Mid Lincolnshire South West Lancashire Mid Kent North Devon North Lancashire North Leicestershire Wakefield Wilton Bute Middlesex South Wiltshire Woodstock East Devon West Kent Down Brighton North Lincolnshire Chatham Aylesbury Horsham
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