List of United Kingdom by-elections (1885–1900)

This is a list of parliamentary by-elections in the United Kingdom held between 1885 and 1900, 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 (including Liberal Unionist and Irish Unionist) gain, orange for a Liberal (including Liberal-Labour) gain, light green for an Irish Parliamentary Party (including the Irish National Federation Anti-Parnellite Nationalist group, but not the Irish National League Parnellite Nationalist faction when the IPP was split between 1891 and 1900) 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 or the Steward of the Manor of Northstead. These appointments are made as a constitutional device for leaving the House of Commons, whose Members are not permitted to resign. Members seeking re-election must therefore resign from the "office of profit" before the result of the by-election is returned.

By-elections

26th Parliament (1895–1900)
By-election	Year	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause
Oldham6	6 July 1899	Robert Ascroft style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Alfred Emmott style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Death
		James Francis Oswald style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Walter Runciman style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Resignation
Aylesbury	6 January 1899	style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	Death
Liverpool Kirkdale	9 December 18981	Sir George Smyth Baden-Powell style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	David MacIver style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Death
Oxford	4 November 18981	The Viscount Valentia style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	The Viscount Valentia style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Comptroller of the Household2
Ormskirk	20 October 18981	Sir Arthur Bower Forwood, Bt style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Arthur Stanley style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Death
Darlington	17 September 1898	Arthur Pease style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	Herbert Pike Pease style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	Death
Southport5	24 August 1898	George Nathaniel Curzon style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Sir Herbert Naylor-Leyland style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Resignation
Launceston	3 August 1898	Thomas Owen style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Sir John Fletcher Moulton style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Death
Great Grimsby4	2 August 1898	Sir George Doughty style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Sir George Doughty style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	Seeks re-election on changing party
Reading4	25 July 1898	Charles Townshend Murdoch style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	George William Palmer style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Death
Gravesend	13 July 1898	James Dampier Palmer style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	John Ryder style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Resignation
Durham4	30 June 1898	Matthew Fowler style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Arthur Elliot style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	Death
Hertford	22 June 1898	Abel Smith style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Evelyn Cecil style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Death
South Norfolk4	12 May 1898	Francis Taylor style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	Arthur Wellesley Soames style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Resignation
Newark	11 May 18981	Harold Heneage Finch-Hatton style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Viscount Newark style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Resignation
West Staffordshire	10 May 1898	Hamar Alfred Bass style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	Sir Alexander Henderson style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	Death
Wokingham	30 March 1898	Sir George Russell style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Oliver Young style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Death
Maidstone	26 March 1898	Sir Frederick Hunt style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Fiennes Cornwallis style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Resignation
Stepney3	9 March 1898	Frederick Wootton Isaacson style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	William Charles Steadman style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: orange;" data-sort-value="Liberal-Labour (UK)" |	Lib-Lab	Death
Cricklade4	24 February 1898	Alfred Hopkinson style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	Lord Edmond FitzMaurice style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Resignation
Birmingham Edgbaston	15 February 18981	George Dixon style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	Sir Francis William Lowe style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Death
Pembrokeshire	15 February 1898	William Rees Morgan Davies style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	John Wynford Philipps style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Resignation
Marylebone West	3 February 18981	Sir Horace Brand Townsend Farquhar style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	Sir Samuel Edward Scott, Bt style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Elevation to the peerage
South East Durham3	3 February 1898	Sir Henry Marshman Havelock-Allan style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	Joseph Richardson style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Death
Wolverhampton South	3 February 1898	Charles Pelham Villiers style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	John Lloyd Gibbons style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	Death
York4	13 January 1898	Frank Lockwood style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Lord Charles Beresford style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Death
Plymouth	12 January 1898	Charles Harrison style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Sigismund Mendl style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Death
Deptford	15 November 1897	Charles John Darling style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Arthur Henry Aylmer Morton style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Resignation
Liverpool Exchange	10 November 1897	John Charles Bigham style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	Charles McArthur style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	Resignation
Middleton3	4 November 1897	Thomas Fielden style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	James Duckworth style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Death
Barnsley	28 October 1897	Earl Compton style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Joseph Walton style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Succession to the peerage
East Denbighshire	28 September 1897	Sir George Osborne Morgan, Bt style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Samuel Moss style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Death
Sheffield Brightside	6 August 1897	Anthony John Mundella style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Frederick Maddison style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: orange;" data-sort-value="Liberal-Labour (UK)" |	Lib-Lab	Death
Petersfield	8 June 1897	William Wickham style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	William Graham Nicholson style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Death
Halifax	3 March 1897	William Rawson Shaw style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Alfred Billson style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Resignation
Chertsey	18 February 1897	Charles Harvey Combe style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Henry Currie Leigh-Bennett style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Resignation
Glasgow Bridgeton	15 February 1897	Sir George Otto Trevelyan style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Sir Charles Cameron style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Resignation
Walthamstow3	3 February 1897	Edmund Widdrington Byrne style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Sam Woods style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: orange;" data-sort-value="Liberal-Labour (UK)" |	Lib-Lab	Resignation
Romford	1 February 1897	Alfred Money Wigram style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Louis Sinclair style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Resignation
Forfarshire	30 January 1897	James Martin White style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	John Sinclair style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Resignation
Salisbury	27 January 1897	Edward Hulse style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Augustus Henry Eden Allhusen style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Resignation
Cleveland	12 January 1897	Henry Fell Pease style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Alfred Edward Pease style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Death
Bradford East	10 November 1896	Henry Byron Reed style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Ronald Henry Fulke Greville style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Death
Frome4	2 June 1896	Viscount Weymouth style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	John Barlow style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Succession to the peerage
Wick Burghs3	2 June 1896	Sir John Pender style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	Thomas Charles Hunter Hedderwick style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Resignation
Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities	12 May 18961	Sir Charles John Pearson style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Sir William Overend Priestley style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Resignation
Aberdeen North	1 May 1896	William Alexander Hunter style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Duncan Vernon Pirie style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Resignation
Lichfield	26 February 1896	Henry Charles Fulford style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Courtenay Warner style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Void election
Montrose Burghs	22 February 1896	John Shiress Will style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	John Morley style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Resignation
Southampton3	22 February 1896	Tankerville Chamberlayne style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Sir Francis Henry Evans style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Void election
Wycombe	21 February 18961	Viscount Curzon style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Viscount Curzon style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Treasurer of the Household2
Brixton	30 January 1896	Marquess of Carmarthen style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Evelyn Hubbard style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Succession to the peerage
St Pancras South	28 January 1896	Sir Julian Goldsmid style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	Herbert Merton Jessel style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	Death
Harrow	30 November 18951	William Ambrose style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	William Ambrose style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Acceptance of an office
Liverpool East Toxteth	29 November 18951	Henry de Worms style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Augustus Frederick Warr style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Elevation to the peerage
Kensington South	28 November 18951	Sir Algernon Borthwick style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Lord Lovaine style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Elevation to the peerage
Inverness Burghs	31 August 18951	Robert Finlay style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	Robert Finlay style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" |	Liberal Unionist	Solicitor General2
1 An uncontested by-election. 2 Seat vacated on appointment to the office noted. 3 Gain not retained at the 1900 UK general election. 4 Gain retained at the 1900 UK general election. 5 Gain in 1898 retained at the Southport by-election, 1899 but not retained at the 1900 UK general election. 6 One gain (Runciman) not retained and one gain (Emmott) retained at the 1900 UK general election, in the two member Oldham constituency.
25th Parliament (1892–1895)
By-election	Year	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause
Holborn	12 August 18921	Gainsford Bruce style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Sir Charles Hall style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Judge of the High Court of Justice2
1 An uncontested by-election. 2 Seat vacated on appointment to the office noted. 3 Gain not retained at the 1895 UK general election. 4 Gain retained at the 1895 UK general election.
24th Parliament (1886–1892)
By-election	Year	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause
Mid Lanarkshire	27 April 1888	Stephen Mason style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	John Wynford Philipps style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" |	Liberal	Resignation
Hampstead	11 August 18861	Sir Henry Holland style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Sir Henry Holland style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education2
1 An uncontested by-election. 2 Seat vacated on appointment to the office noted. 3 Gain not retained at the 1892 UK general election. 4 Gain retained at the 1892 UK general election.
23rd Parliament (1885–1886)
By-election	Year	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause
Queen's County Ossory	12 February 18861	Arthur O'Connor style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #99FF66;" data-sort-value="Irish Parliamentary Party" |	Irish Parliamentary	Stephen O'Mara style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #99FF66;" data-sort-value="Irish Parliamentary Party" |	Irish Parliamentary	Chose to sit for East Donegal
Galway Borough	11 February 1886	Thomas Power O'Connor style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #99FF66;" data-sort-value="Irish Parliamentary Party" |	Irish Parliamentary	William Henry O'Shea 3 style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #99FF66;" data-sort-value="Irish Parliamentary Party" |	Irish Parliamentary	Chose to sit for Liverpool Scotland
North Monaghan	10 February 1886	Timothy Michael Healy style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #99FF66;" data-sort-value="Irish Parliamentary Party" |	Irish Parliamentary	Patrick O'Brien style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #99FF66;" data-sort-value="Irish Parliamentary Party" |	Irish Parliamentary	Chose to sit for South Londonderry
Mid Armagh	1 February 1886	John McKane style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Sir James Porter Corry style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Death
County Carlow	29 January 18861	Edmund Dwyer Gray style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #99FF66;" data-sort-value="Irish Parliamentary Party" |	Irish Parliamentary	John Aloysius Blake style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #99FF66;" data-sort-value="Irish Parliamentary Party" |	Irish Parliamentary	Chose to sit for Dublin St Stephen's Green
Croydon	27 January 1886	William Grantham style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Sidney Herbert style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |	Conservative	Judge of the High Court of Justice2
1 An uncontested by-election. 2 Seat vacated on appointment to the office noted. 3 The biographical article on William Henry O'Shea suggests he was not a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party. However Walker classifies O'Shea as a Nationalist candidate which, for someone standing at an election in 1886, implies membership of the Irish Parliamentary Party. 4 Gain not retained at the 1886 UK general election. 5 Gain retained at the 1886 UK general election.

References

• List of MPs since 1660
• F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Statistics 1832-1987
• F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918
• 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)