The 1869 Westbury by-election was fought on 27 February 1869. The by-election was fought due to the void election of the incumbent MP of the

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John Lewis Phipps John Lewis Phipps (1801–1870), of Leighton House, Westbury, Wiltshire, was a merchant trading with Brazil, who was briefly Conservative MP for Westbury (1868) and High Sheriff of Wiltshire (1864). He was the second son of Thomas Henry Hele P ...

. It was won by the Conservative candidate

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