1880 Derby by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 August 2019 The 1880 Derby by-election was held on 26 May when the incumbent Liberal MP Samuel Plimsoll resigned to find a seat for the recently unseated Home Secretary William Vernon Harcourt. The Liberals had formed a government after winning the 1880 general election and Harcourt, a well known radical and talented debater, had been offered the job of Home Secretary. Under the law at the time he had to resign his seat and seek re-election. In a close fought by-election Harcourt lost his Oxford seat. Samuel Plimsoll immediately resigned and Harcourt was unopposed in the subsequent by-election.https://books.google.com/books?id=fASYFMKoTRIC&q=Dover+by-election+1871&pg=PA74 By-Elections in British Politics, 1832-1914 9781843837800 Otte Thomas Otte T. G. Readman Paul 2013 References Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Derbyshire constituencies Category:Unopposed by-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in English constituencies Category:1880 elections in the United Kingdom Category:1880 in England Category:19th century in Derbyshire