1878 Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 August 2019 The 1878 Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election was fought on 23 August 1878. The by-election was fought due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, Sir Edmund Buckley. It was won by the Liberal candidate Samuel Rathbone Edge.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 Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election (1 seat) F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989) Liberal Party (UK) Samuel Rathbone Edge 1,330 57.3 +23.7 Conservative Party (UK) Charles Donaldson-Hudson 990 42.7 -23.8 340 14.6 N/A 2,320 68.3 -5.8 3,396 Liberal Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) +23.8 References Category:1878 in England Category:1878 elections in the United Kingdom Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Staffordshire constituencies Category:19th century in Staffordshire