1886 County Carlow by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 August 2019 The 1886 County Carlow by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the United Kingdom House of Commons constituency of County Carlow on 29 January 1886.The Times, 30 January 1886. The sitting member, Edmund Dwyer Gray had been re-elected in the general election of 1885, but having run and been elected also in the new constituency of Dublin St Stephen's Green, he chose to sit for the latter.G. B. Smith, ‘Gray, Edmund Dwyer (1845–1888)’, rev. Alan O'Day, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2006, accessed 7 May 2008. The County Carlow seat thus became vacant, and in the ensuing by-election, another Irish Nationalist candidate, John Aloysius Blake, was elected unopposed.The Constitutional Year Book, 1904, published by Conservative Central Office, page 187 (211 in web page) References Category:1886 elections in the United Kingdom Category:January 1886 in the United Kingdom Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in County Carlow constituencies Category:Unopposed by-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Irish constituencies Category:1886 elections in Ireland