The

Stroud Stroud is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is the main town in Stroud District. The town's population was 13,500 in 2021. Below the western escarpment of the Cotswold Hills, at the meeting point of the Five ...

by-election of May was fought on 15 May 1874. Caused by the election of

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MP,

Sebastian Stewart Dickinson Sebastian Stewart Dickinson (25 March 1815 – 23 August 1878) was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1874. Dickinson was the son of Major General Thomas Dickinson, of the Honourable East India Compan ...

being declared void on petition on "account of treating, but the treating was not with knowledge of the candidates". It was retained by the Liberals.

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