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1906 Galway Borough by-election

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1906 Galway Borough by-election
3 November 1906

Galway Borough(constituency)
First party Second party
Candidate Stephen Gwynn Frank Shawe-Taylor
Party Irish Parliamentary Independent Nationalist
Popular vote 983 559

The1906Galway Boroughby-electionwas held on 3 November 1906. Theby-electionwas held due to the resignation of the incumbentIrish ParliamentaryMP,Charles Ramsay Devlin,in order to return to Canada. It was won by theIrish ParliamentarycandidateStephen Gwynn.[1]

1906 Galway Borough by-election[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish Parliamentary Stephen Gwynn 983 63.7 N/A
Independent Nationalist John Shawe-Taylor 559 36.3 New
Majority 424 27.4 N/A
Turnout 1,542 70.0 N/A
Registered electors 2,202
Irish Parliamentaryhold Swing N/A

References[edit]

  1. ^Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
  2. ^"Galway Borough Election".Nottingham Evening Post.5 November 1906.Retrieved15 October2016– viaBritish Newspaper Archive.