1870 Brecon by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 May 2022 The 1870 Brecon by-election was fought on 13 June 1870. The by-election was fought due to the Succession to a peerage of the incumbent MP of the Liberal Party, Lord Hyde. It was won by the Conservative candidate James Gwynne-Holford.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 1870 Brecon by-electionF. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989) Conservative Party (UK) James Gwynne-Holford 372 52.4 +1.4 Liberal Party (UK) Hugh Powell PriceBrecon Boroughs https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000264/18700709/022/0003 28 December 2017 Western Daily Press 9 July 1870 3 British Newspaper Archive limited 338 47.6 -1.4 34 4.8 +2.7 710 87.2 -2.4 814 Conservative Party (UK) Liberal Party (UK) +1.4 References Category:1870 in Wales Category:1870s elections in Wales Category:History of Powys Category:Brecknockshire Category:1870 elections in the United Kingdom Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Welsh constituencies