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1862 Ellesmere by-election
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The 1862 Ellesmere by-election was a by-election held on 9 June 1862 during the 3rd New Zealand Parliament in the Canterbury electorate of Ellesmere.
The by-election was caused by the resignation of the incumbent MP Thomas Rowley.
The by-election was won by James FitzGerald. He was unopposed.https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP18620614.2.11? Election Press 14 June 1862https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18620614.2.13? Election Lyttelton Times 14 June 1862
At two other by-elections held in June 1862 for Avon and Heathcote the candidates were also returned unopposed; see Avon 1862 and Heathcote 1862.
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