The 1869 County Louth by-election was contested on 11 January 1869. The by-election was held because the incumbent Liberal MP, Chichester Fortescue, had...

The 1869 Drogheda by-election took place on 15 March 1869. The by-election arose following an election petition which unseated the incumbent MP, the Liberal...

Louth (/laʊθ/ ) is a market town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. Louth serves as an important town for a large...

County Louth, otherwise known as Louth County or Louth, is a former parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which was represented in the House of Commons...

Drogheda, which lay in County Meath, was transferred to County Louth on 1 January 1977. This resulted in the land area of County Louth increasing slightly...

Louth The geographical layout of Lincolnshire is quite extensive and mostly separated by many rivers and rolling countryside. The north of the county...

Unlike most Westminster by-elections, ministerial by-elections were often a formality, uncontested by opposition parties. Re-election was required under the...

There is a monument to him in his native Carlingford, County Louth, unveiled during a visit in 1991 by then Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney and Irish...

is Richard Robert Taft, who was born in England in 1614 and died in County Louth, Kingdom of Ireland in 1700, which is also where his son, Robert Taft...

refuse to move a by-election writ (and in extreme cases to disfranchise the borough, with its territory subsumed into the surrounding county constituency)...