South Sligo by-election, 1887
The South Sligo by-election, 1887 was a parliamentary by-election held for the United Kingdom House of Commons constituency of South Sligo on 7 February 1887. The sitting member, Thomas Sexton of the Irish Parliamentary Party had been re-elected in the general election of 1886, but having been elected also in the constituency of Belfast West, he chose to sit for the latter. In the ensuing by-election another Irish Parliamentary Party candidate, Edward Joseph Kennedy, was elected unopposed.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Hazell's Annual Cyclopaedia, 1888, page 203.
- ↑ The Constitutional Year Book, 1904, published by Conservative Central Office, page 192 (216 in web page)
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