1878 Perthshire by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election

The 1878 Perthshire by-election was fought on 2 February 1878. The byelection was fought due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Sir William Stirling-Maxwell. It was won by the Conservative candidate Henry Home-Drummond-Moray.^[1]

1878 Perthshire by-election^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Home-Drummond-Moray	2,439	52.0	-3.4
	Liberal	Algernon Greville-Nugent^[3]	2,255	48.0	+3.4
Majority			184	4.0	-6.8
Turnout			4,694	83.6	-0.2
Registered electors			5,613
	Conservative hold		Swing	-3.4

References

^ "Leigh Rayment - Commons". leighrayment.com. Archived from the original on 7 June 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
^ "The Perthshire Election". Dundee Evening Telegraph. 26 January 1878. p. 4. Retrieved 15 January 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.

« 20th Parliament « By-elections to the 21st Parliament of the United Kingdom » 22nd Parliament »

1874

March: Chicester
New Shoreham
Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities
Liverpool
North Hampshire
Oxford University
Dublin University
Huntingdon
Mid Surrey
North Lincolnshire
Portsmouth
Buckinghamshire
East Gloucestershire
Eye
Monmouthshire
North Northumberland
County Dublin
North Devonshire
North Northamptonshire
Invernesshire
South Devonshire
South West Lancashire
East Suffolk
Galway
North Leicestershire
North Staffordshire
Falkirk Burghs
North Lancashire
April: County Louth
Hackney
Preston
May: Wakefield
Stroud
Dudley
Poole
Mayo
June: City of Durham
Haverfordwest
Oxford
North Durham
Galway
July: Launceston
Stroud
Kidderminster
September: Midhurst
October: Cambridgeshire
Northampton
November: Wenlock
Birkenhead
December: St Ives

1875

1876

1877

1878

1879

1880

Lists of UK by-elections: 1801–1806; 1806–1818; 1818–1832; 1832–1847; 1847–1857; 1857–1868; 1868–1885; 1885–1900; 1900–1918; 1918–1931; 1931–1950; 1950–1979; 1979–2010; 2010–present; Northern Ireland; Hereditary peers

v t e By-elections in Scotland to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom 1868–1899 » 1900–1949 »
1860s	January 1868: Kirkcudbrightshire January 1869: Renfrewshire Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire Wigtown Burghs Hawick Burghs March 1869: Dumfriesshire August 1869: Caithness November 1869: Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities
1870s	March 1870: Roxburghshire February 1872: Wick Burghs June 1872: Aberdeen December;1872: Kincardineshire Forfarshire January 1873: Orkney and Shetland February 1873: Wigtownshire June 1873: Berwickshire August 1873: Dundee September 1873: Renfrewshire December 1873: Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities March 1874: Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities Inverness-shire Falkirk Burghs April 1985: Kirkcaldy Burghs December 1875: East Aberdeenshire May 1876: West Aberdeenshire November 1876: Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities January 1878: Greenock Leith Burghs Perth February 1878: Perthshire August 1878: Haddington Burghs Argyllshire February 1879: Haddington Burghs July 1879: Glasgow September 1879: Elginshire and Nairnshire
1880s	May 1880: Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire Wigtown Burghs July 1880: Bute Wigtown Burghs November 1880: Renfrewshire December 1880: Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire January 1881: Edinburgh July 1881: Elgin Burghs August 1881: Elgin Burghs May 1882: Hawick Burghs August 1882: Haddington Burghs November 1882: Edinburgh February 1883: Haddingtonshire August 1884: Ross and Cromarty October 1884: Stirling Burghs November 1884: Greenock March 1885: Glasgow July 1885: Bute January 1886: Edinburgh South February 1886: Edinburgh South Stirling Burghs Midlothian Hawick Burghs Elgin Burghs Banffshire Berwickshire Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire August 1886: Buteshire Wigtownshire Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities Leith Burghs August 1887: Glasgow Bridgeton February 1888: Dundee Edinburgh West April 1888: Mid Lanarkshire June 1888: Ayr Burghs November 1888: Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities January 1889: Govan February 1889: East Perthshire July 1889: West Fife September 1889: Dundee October 1889: Elginshire and Nairnshire
1890s	February 1890: Partick March 1890: Ayr Burghs November 1890: Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities June 1891: Paisley October 1891: Buteshire March 1892: Kirkcaldy Burghs August 1892: Aberdeen South Glasgow Bridgeton ]Midlothian Forfarshire Elgin Burghs Stirling Burghs Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire East Fife September 1892: Dundee December 1892: East Aberdeenshire March 1893: Banffshire June 1893: Linlithgowshire March 1894: Leith Burghs Hawick Burghs Berwickshire April 1894: Mid Lanarkshire May 1894: Dumfries Burghs November 1894: Forfarshire May 1895: Edinburgh West June 1895: Inverness-shire August 1895: Inverness Burghs February 1896: Montrose Burghs May 1896: Aberdeen North Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities June 1896: Wick Burghs January 1897: Forfarshire February 1897: Glasgow Bridgeton February 1899: North West Lanarkshire June 1899: Edinburgh South Edinburgh East December 1899: Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities
Lists of UK by-elections 1801–1806 1806–1818 1818–1832 1832–1847 1847–1857 1857–1868 1868–1885 1885–1900 1900–1918 1918–1931 1931–1950 1950–1979 1979–2010 2010–present Northern Ireland Hereditary peers