1906 Galway Borough by-election
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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]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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]
- ^Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- ^"Galway Borough Election".Nottingham Evening Post.5 November 1906.Retrieved15 October2016– viaBritish Newspaper Archive.