The 1878 Leith Burghs by-election was fought on 29 January 1878. The byelection was fought due to the resignation of the incumbent

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MP,

Donald Robert Macgregor Donald Robert Macgregor (1824 – 9 December 1889) was a Scottish politician. From 1874 to 1878 he was a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Leith Burghs constituency, near Edinburgh. He was born in Perth and later moved to Leith Leith (; ...

. It was won by the

candidate Andrew Grant.

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