The 1895 West Cavan by-election was a parliamentary

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 ...

held for the United Kingdom House of Commons

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of West Cavan on 22 August 1895. The sitting member, Edmund Vesey Knox of the

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, who had sat for the constituency since a by-election in 1890, had been re-elected in the general election of 1895. However, having been elected also for the constituency of Londonderry City, he chose to sit for that constituency instead. The West Cavan seat thus became vacant, and in the ensuing by-election, another Irish National Federation candidate,

James Patrick Farrell James Patrick Farrell (13 May 1865 – 11 December 1921) was an Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament (MP) from 1895 to 1918, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was also ...

, was elected unopposed.''The Times'', 23 August 1895The Constitutional Year Book
1904, published by

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, page 187 (211 in web page)

References

1895 elections in the United Kingdom August 1895 events By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in County Cavan constituencies Unopposed by-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Irish constituencies 1895 elections in Ireland {{Ireland-UK-Parl-by-election-stub