1876 Cork City by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 August 2019 A 1876 by-election was held in the UK House of Commons constituency of Cork City on 25 May 1876 due to the death of Joseph Philip Ronayne,Ronayne, Joseph Philip one of the two incumbent Home Rule League MPs, on 7 May 1876. It was won by the Conservative candidate William Gouldingd'Alton Ian 1975 Cork Unionism: Its Role in Parliamentary and Local Elections, 1885-1914 https://www.jstor.org/stable/20496079 Studia Hibernica 15 143-161 JSTOR because the Home Rule vote was split between two candidates. It was the last time that a parliamentary election for Cork City was won by a Conservative or Unionist.Cork - Politics and institutions https://nationalarchives.ie/collections/search-the-census/about-the-census-collections/cork-politics-and-institutions/ 2026-03-06 Irish National Archives en-GB Cork City by-election, 1876 Conservative Party (UK) William Goulding 1,279 38.90 +2.9 Home Rule League John Daly 1,168 35.52 Home Rule League Denny Lane 841 25.58 111 3.38 N/A 3,288 74.71 -3.7 4,401 Conservative Party (UK) Home Rule League References Category:Elections in Cork (city) Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in County Cork constituencies Category:1876 elections in the United Kingdom Category:1876 elections in Ireland