1874 Akaroa by-elections

Two New Zealand by-elections April 2024 July 2019 Following the resignation of Robert Heaton Rhodes from his Akaroa seat in the New Zealand parliament, William Montgomery contested the 20 April 1874 by-election against Walter Pilliet. The results were 168 and 76 votes, respectively, i.e., a margin of 92 for Montgomery. He thus entered parliament during the 5th term. In July 1874, a select committee declared Montgomery's election to be "null and void", as he had a contract for the supply of railway sleepers with the general government in breach of election rules. The select committee accepted that the breach was inadvertent.http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TS18740731.2.8 House of Representatives 1998 31 July 1874 The Star 2 9 April 2010 Papers Past Montgomery stood for re-election in the second by-election, on 10 August 1874http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TS18740808.2.13 MR MONTGOMEEY AT AKAROA 2005 8 August 1874 The Star 9 April 2010 Papers Past and was returned unopposed.http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TS18740810.2.9 LATEST TELEGRAMS 2006 10 August 1874 The Star 9 April 2010 Papers Past References Akaroa 1874 Category:1874 elections in New Zealand Category:Akaroa Category:August 1874 in Oceania Category:April 1874 in Oceania Category:Politics of the Canterbury Region