The 1858 Hutt by-election was a New Zealand by-election held in the multi-member electorate of during the

2nd New Zealand Parliament The 2nd New Zealand Parliament was a term of the New Zealand Parliament, Parliament of New Zealand. It opened on 15 April 1856, following New Zealand's 1855 New Zealand general election, 1855 election. It was dissolved on 5 November 1860 in prep ...

on 31 July 1858, following the resignation of

Dillon Bell Sir Francis Dillon Bell (8 October 1822 – 15 July 1898) was a New Zealand politician of the late 19th century. He served as New Zealand's third Minister of Finance (New Zealand), Minister of Finance (the first parliamentary finance minister), ...

and

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on 22 March. The election was won by

Alfred Renall Alfred William Renall (1813 – 30 January 1902) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in the Hutt Valley and Wairarapa, New Zealand. He represented the Hutt Valley electorate of Hutt from 1858 to 1866 when he retired. He had been a May ...

and

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, who had resigned from the multi-member electorate in order to contest this by-election. That resignation forced a

by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to f ...

to happen. Two other candidates unsuccessfully contested the electorate, George Hart and Peter Cheyne.

Results

References

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