Dulwich by-election, 1887 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Dulwich by-election, 1887 was a by-election

By-election

A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....

held on 30 November 1887 for the British House of Commons

British House of Commons

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...

constituency

United Kingdom constituencies

In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly.Within the United Kingdom there are now five bodies with members elected by constituencies:...

of Dulwich

Dulwich (UK Parliament constituency)

Dulwich was a borough constituency in the Dulwich area of South London, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....

in South London

South London

South London is the southern part of London, England, United Kingdom.According to the 2011 official Boundary Commission for England definition, South London includes the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Kingston, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Southwark, Sutton and...

.

The by-election was triggered by the appointment of the serving Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

Member of Parliament

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(MP), John Morgan Howard

John Morgan Howard

John Morgan Howard was a British judge and Conservative Party politician.He was called to the bar in 1858, became a QC in 1874, and in 1875 was appointed Recorder of Guildford...

, as a judge in Cornwall.

The Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

candidate was John Blundell Maple

John Blundell Maple

Sir John Blundell Maple, 1st Baronet was an English business magnate. He was educated at King's College London...

, who had unsuccessfully contested St Pancras South

St Pancras South (UK Parliament constituency)

St. Pancras South was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of election. It was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election and...

at the 1885 general election. The Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

candidate was James Henderson.

The main issue in the by-election was the question of Irish Home Rule, which Henderson, a supporter of Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times , more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time...

, supported. The Liberal Unionists in the constituency supported Maple.

Votes

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