1878 Perthshire by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 August 2019 The 1878 Perthshire by-election was fought on 2 February 1878. The by-election was fought due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Sir William Stirling-Maxwell. It was won by the Conservative candidate Henry Home-Drummond-Moray.http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20080607022521/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm 7 June 2008 Leigh Rayment - Commons dead leighrayment.com 1878 Perthshire by-electionF. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989) Conservative Party (UK) Henry Home-Drummond-Moray 2,439 52.0 -3.4 Liberal Party (UK) Algernon Greville-NugentThe Perthshire Election https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000453/18780126/054/0004 15 January 2018 Dundee Evening Telegraph 26 January 1878 4 British Newspaper Archive subscription 2,255 48.0 +3.4 184 4.0 -6.8 4,694 83.6 -0.2 5,613 Conservative Party (UK) -3.4 References Perthshire by-election Category:1870s elections in Scotland Category:Politics of Perthshire Perthshire by-election Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Scottish constituencies