| 词条 | 1889 Dundee by-election |
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The Dundee by-election, 1889 was a parliamentary by-election held in September 1889 to elect one of the members for the British House of Commons constituency of Dundee, following the death of Joseph Firth.[1] BackgroundIn February 1888 the voters of Dundee had gone to the polls to elect a replacement for Charles Carmichael Lacaita, one of the two members elected for Dundee the 1886 General election, who had had resigned from Parliament due to his disapproval of Gladstone's Home Rule policy.[2] The winner of this contest was the Liberal Joseph Bottomley Firth.[1] However Firth died in September 1889.[3] ElectionShortly after Firth's death speculation started has to who would contest the vacant seat, with the Glasgow Herald reporting ex-Bailie Robertson was expected to be offered the Liberal nomination, with Mr Dalglish and Mr W. L. Boase thought to be possible Unionist candidates.[3] John Burns was also speculated upon as a possible Socialist candidate.[4] Four local Liberals, including John Leng, reportedly declined nomination as a candidate, but Leng eventually agreed to stand.[4] John Leng had come to Dundee in 1851 to edit and manageThe Dundee Advertiser, which he turned into a daily newspaper. He also founded The People's Journal, The Evening Telegraph and The People's Friend.[5] The Glasgow Herald considered Leng to be a 'strong candidate', but thought that the Dundee Unionists had a chance of defeating him if they selected 'candidate of great local weight'.[4] Ultimately there was no contest and Leng was returned without opposition, the first time the Dundee seat had not been contested since Sir John Ogilvy was returned unopposed at the 1865 general election, when Dundee was still a one-member seat.[1][6] Leng was a supporter of Irish Home Rule and also supported Home Rule for Scotland, chairing a meeting of the Scottish Home Rule Association on the evening of his election.[6] The Glasgow Herald described him as a strong supporter of Gladstone and considered Dundee 'fortunate' to have him as an MP.[6] Result{{Election box begin|title=Dundee by-election, 25th September 1889: [1][6]}}{{Election box candidate unopposed with party link||party=Liberal Party (UK) |candidate=John Leng }}{{Election box hold with party link no swing| |winner=Liberal Party (UK) }}{{Election box end}} References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite book|last1=Hazel|first1=John W|title=John W Hazel's Book of Records|date=1977|publisher=D Winter & Son|location=Dundee|page=48}} {{By-elections to the 24th UK Parliament}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Dundee By-Election, 1889}}{{UK-election-stub}}2. ^{{cite news|title=Election News. Result of the Polling at Dundee|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=18880217&printsec=frontpage&hl=e|accessdate=11 December 2017|work=The Glasgow Herald|date=17 February 1888||page=8}} 3. ^1 {{cite news|title=The Glasgow Herald|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=18890906&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|accessdate=11 December 2017|work=The Glasgow Herald|date=6 September 1889|page=6}} 4. ^1 2 {{cite news|title=The Glasgow Herald|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=18890911&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|accessdate=12 December 2017|work=The Glasgow Herald|date=11 September 1889|page=6}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=Fife Pictorial & Historical: Vol. II, A H Millar, 1895|url=http://www.newportarchive.co.uk/Texts/millar.php|website=The Newport, Wormit & Forgan Archive|accessdate=12 December 2017}} 6. ^1 2 3 {{cite news|title=The Glasgow Herald|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=18890926&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|accessdate=12 December 2017|work=The Glasgow Herald|date=26 September 1889|page=6}} 3 : 1889 elections in the United Kingdom|By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Dundee constituencies|19th century in Dundee |
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