1887 North Longford by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 August 2019 The 1887 North Longford by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the United Kingdom House of Commons constituency of North Longford on 5 February 1887. The sitting member, Justin McCarthy of the Irish Parliamentary Party had been re-elected in the general election of 1886, but having been elected also in the constituency of Londonderry City, he chose to sit for the latter on the basis that the Longford seat was safe for a Nationalist candidate.Justin McCarthy, An Irishman's Story (Grosset & Dunlap, 1906) page 297. In the ensuing by-election another Irish Parliamentary Party candidate, Tim Healy, former member for South Londonderry, was elected unopposed.Hazell's Annual Cyclopaedia, 1888, page 203.The Constitutional Year Book, 1904, published by Conservative Central Office, page 190 (214 in web page) References Category:1887 elections in the United Kingdom Category:February 1887 in the United Kingdom Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in County Longford constituencies Category:Unopposed by-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Irish constituencies Category:1887 elections in Ireland