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1878 Port Chalmers by-election
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New Zealand by-election
April 2024
July 2019
The 1878 Port Chalmers by-election was a by-election held on 12 April 1878 in the Port Chalmers electorate during the 6th New Zealand Parliament.
The by-election was caused by the resignation of the incumbent MP William Reynolds.
The by-election was won by James Green.
he was opposed by the ex-Mayor Mr Henry Dench.https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GLOBE18780404.2.7? Telegraphic Globe 4 April 1878 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD18780405.2.9?query=Dench&start_date=05-04-1878&end_date=05-04-1878&snippet=true&title=LCM,LCP,LWM,ME,MIC,MTBM,NOT,OAM,ODT,OSWCC,OW,ST,TT,SOCR,WSTAR,AHCOG,BH,CL,CROMARG,DUNST,ESD&type=ARTICLE Evening Star 4 April 1878
Results
The following table gives the election result (possibly missing one booth, but no later result has been found):
References
Port Chalmers, 1878
Category:1878 elections in New Zealand
Category:Politics of Otago
Category:April 1878 in Oceania