List of United Kingdom by-elections (1806–18)
5th Parliament (1812–1818)

List of United Kingdom by-elections (1806–18)

Section Title: 5th Parliament (1812–1818)
Table Section Text: None

Date	Constituency	c/u	Former incumbent	Winner	Cause

21 December 1812	Arundel	u	Henry Thomas Howard Molyneux	Samuel Romilly	Chose to sit for Gloucester

21 December 1812	Midhurst	u	George Smith	Viscount Mahon	Chose to sit for Wendover

21 December 1812	Rye	u	Sir Henry Sullivan	Charles Wetherell	Chose to sit for Lincoln

22 December 1812	Ludgershall	u	Magens Dorrien Magens	Sandford Graham	Resignation

Joseph Hague Everett	Joseph Birch	Resignation

22 December 1812	Pontefract	c*	Henry Lascelles	Viscount Pollington	Chose to sit for Yorkshire

23 December 1812	Cockermouth	u	John Lowther	Augustus John Foster	Chose to sit for Cumberland

24 December 1812	Petersfield	u*	George Canning	George Canning II	Chose to sit for Liverpool

26 December 1812	Plympton Erle	u	George Duckett	William Douglas	Resignation

28 December 1812	Bletchingley	u	Sir Charles Talbot	Robert William Newman	Death

28 December 1812	Dorchester	u	Charles Henry Bouverie	William A'court	Chose to sit for Downton

29 December 1812	Appleby	u	John Courtenay	George Tierney	Resignation to provide a seat for Tierney

30 December 1812	Clitheroe	u	Viscount Castlereagh	Edward Bootle Wilbraham	Chose to sit for County Down

2 January 1813	Dundalk	u	John Metge	Lyndon Evelyn	Resignation

2 January 1813	Malmesbury	u	Sir Charles Saxton	Peter Patten	Chose to sit for Cashel

4 January 1813	Ennis	u	James Fitzgerald	William Fitzgerald	Resignation

12 February 1813	New Romney	u	Sir John Thomas Duckworth	Sir John Thomas Duckworth	Seeks re-election due an irregularity in his return

13 February 1813	Mitchell	u	George Robert Hobart	Edward Law	Resignation

13 February 1813	Wexford Borough	u	Richard Nevill	John Fish	Resignation (ill health)

17 February 1813	Salisbury	c	William Hussey	George Purefoy-Jervoise	Death

4 March 1813	Callington	u	Sir John Leman Rogers	Charles Rodolph Trefusis	Resignation

6 March 1813	Buckinghamshire	u	Earl Temple	Thomas Grenville	Succeeded to a peerage

11 March 1813	Wootton Bassett	u*	James Kibblewhite	Richard Ellison	Resignation

19 March 1813	Pembroke Boroughs	u	John Owen	Sir Thomas Picton	Chose to sit for Pembrokeshire

29 March 1813	Rye	u	Charles Wetherell	Richard Arkwright	Chose to sit for Shaftesbury

5 April 1813	Sligo Borough	u	George Canning II	Joshua Spencer	Chose to sit for Petersfield

6 April 1813	Wootton Bassett	u	John Attersoll	Robert Rickards	Resignation

10 April 1813	County Monaghan	u	Richard Thomas Dawson	Thomas Charles Stewart Corry	Became an Irish Peer

17 April 1813	St Mawes	u	William Shipley	Francis Horner	Resignation

24 April 1813	Orford	u*	Edmond Alexander MacNaghten	Edmond Alexander MacNaghten	Lord of the Irish Treasury

26 April 1813	Downton	u	Sir Thomas Plumer	Sir Thomas Brooke Pechell	Resignation (Vice Chancellor)

27 April 1813	Downton	u	Charles Henry Bouverie	Edward Golding	Resignation

4 May 1813	Tavistock	u	Richard Fitzpatrick	Lord John Russell	Death

10 May 1813	Eye	u	Sir William Garrow	Sir William Garrow	Attorney General for England and Wales

9 June 1813	Weymouth and Melcombe Regis	c*	Thomas Wallace	Masterton Ure	Void Election

c	John Broadhurst	Christopher Idle

Henry Trail	Viscount Cranborne

17 June 1813	Tralee	u	Henry Arthur Herbert	James Evan Baillie	Resignation

22 June 1813	Weobley	u	Viscount St. Asaph	James Lenox William Naper	Death

25 June 1813	Nairnshire	u	Hugh Rose	Sir James Mackintosh	Resignation

16 July 1813	Haddington Burghs	u	Thomas Maitland	Anthony Maitland	Resignation (Governor of Malta)

21 July 1813	Okehampton	u	The Lord Graves	The Lord Graves	Lord of the Bedchamber

20 September 1813	County Durham	u*	Sir Henry Vane Tempest	John George Lambton	Death

10 November 1813	New Woodstock	u	William Thornton	George Eden	Resignation

12 November 1813	Ripon	u*	Frederick John Robinson	Frederick John Robinson	Joint Paymaster of the Forces

22 November 1813	Surrey	c	Sir Thomas Sutton	Samuel Thornton	Death

22 November 1813	Westmorland	u*	The Lord Muncaster	Viscount Lowther	Death

27 November 1813	Cockermouth	u	Viscount Lowther	Thomas Wallace	Junior Lord of the Treasury

4 December 1813	Hedon	u	George Johnstone	John Broadhurst	Death

10 December 1813	Durham City	c	Richard John Lambton	George Allan	Resignation

20 December 1813	Carmarthen	u*	George Campbell	John Frederick Campbell	Resignation

30 December 1813	Monmouth Boroughs	u*	Lord Charles Henry Somerset	Marquess of Worcester	Resignation (Governor of the Cape Colony)

19 January 1814	Inverness Burghs	u	Charles Grant	Charles Grant	Junior Lord of the Treasury

5 March 1814	County Mayo	c*	Henry Augustus Dillon Lee	Dominick Browne	Became an Irish Peer

11 March 1814	Eye	u	Sir William Garrow	Sir William Garrow	Chief Justice of Chester

23 March 1814	County Kildare	u*	Lord Henry Fitzgerald	Lord William Charles O'Brien Fitzgerald	Resignation

11 April 1814	Dorchester	u*	William A'court	Samuel Shepherd	Resignation

11 April 1814	Nottinghamshire	u	Lord William Henry Cavendish Bentinck	Frank Frank	Resignation

16 April 1814	Newton	u*	Peter Heron	Thomas Legh	Resignation

21 April 1814	Inverness Burghs	u	Charles Grant	Charles Grant	Voted before taking the oath

25 April 1814	County Waterford	u*	Richard Power	Richard Power	Death

28 April 1814	Truro	u	John Lemon	George Dashwood	Death

9 May 1814	Marlborough	u	Lord Bruce	William Hill	Succeeded to a peerage

9 May 1814	Rutland	u*	Charles Noel Noel	Sir Gerard Noel Noel	Resignation

19 May 1814	Newark	u	Sir Stapleton Cotton	George Hay Dawkins Pennant	Elevated to the peerage

21 May 1814	Lincoln	u*	Sir Henry Sullivan	Coningsby Waldo Sibthorp	Death

25 May 1814	County Waterford	u*	Sir William Carr Beresford	Lord George Thomas Beresford	Elevated to the peerage

27 May 1814	Kilkenny City	u*	Overington Blunden	Charles Harward Blunden	Resignation

27 May 1814	Shrewsbury	c*	Sir Rowland Hill	Richard Lyster	Elevated to the peerage

10 June 1814	Coleraine	u*	Lord George Thomas Beresford	Sir John Poo Beresford	Resignation to contest County Waterford

14 June 1814	New Woodstock	u	George Eden	William Thornton	Succeeded to a peerage

22 June 1814	Huntingdonshire	u	Viscount Hinchingbrooke	Lord Proby	Succeeded to a peerage

24 June 1814	Northallerton	u	Viscount Lascelles	John Bacon Sawrey Morritt	Death

13 July 1814	Grampound	c	Andrew James Cochrane Johnstone	Ebenezer John Collett	Expelled for conspiracy

16 July 1814	Westminster	u	Lord Cochrane	Lord Cochrane	Expelled for conspiracy

19 July 1814	County Londonderry	u	Charles William Stewart	Alexander Stewart	Elevated to the peerage

25 July 1814	Roxburghshire	u*	Viscount Melgund	Alexander Don	Succeeded to a peerage

2 August 1814	Mitchell	u	John Bruce	Charles Trelawny Brereton	Resignation

3 August 1814	Bewdley	u	Miles Peter Andrews	Charles Edward Wilsonn	Death

4 August 1814	Lymington	u	John Kingston	John Taylor	Resignation

8 August 1814	Chichester	u*	William Huskisson	William Huskisson	First Commissioner of Woods and Forests

9 August 1814	Wexford Borough	u*	John Fish	Richard Nevill	Resignation

10 August 1814	Edinburgh	u*	William Dundas	William Dundas	Keeper of the Signet

12 August 1814	Aldborough	u	Henry Dawkins	Henry Gally Knight	Resignation

12 August 1814	Queen's County	u*	William Wellesley Pole	William Wellesley Pole	Master of the Mint

16 September 1814	Belfast	u	Sir Edward May	Stephen Edward May	Death

25 October 1814	Ross-shire	u	William Frederick Mackenzie	Charles Mackenzie Fraser	Death

7 November 1814	Cardiff Boroughs	u	Lord William Stuart	Lord Evelyn James Stuart	Death

18 November 1814	Newtown	u	Barrington Pope Blachford	Barrington Pope Blachford	Lord of the Admiralty

22 November 1814	Newport	u	Richard Fleming Worsley Holmes	John Delgarno	Death

24 November 1814	Aylesbury	u	Thomas Hussey	Charles Compton Cavendish	Resignation

24 November 1814	Bletchingley	u	William Kenrick	John Bolland	Resignation

28 November 1814	Glamorganshire	u	Thomas Wyndham	Benjamin Hall	Death

5 December 1814	Mitchell	u	Charles Trelawny Brereton	Lord Binning	Resignation

5 December 1814	Westbury	u*	Benjamin Hall	Ralph Franco	Resignation to contest Glamorganshire

17 February 1815	Southwark	c	Henry Thornton	Charles Barclay	Death

9 March 1815	Downpatrick	c*	Charles Stewart Hawthorne	Viscount Glerawly	Resignation (Commissioner of Excise in Ireland)

24 March 1815	Bandon Bridge	u	Richard Boyle Bernard	William Sturges Bourne	Resignation

27 March 1815	Sligo Borough	u	Joshua Spencer	Sir Brent Spencer	Resignation

31 March 1815	Thirsk	u*	William Frankland	Robert Frankland	Resignation

14 April 1815	East Grinstead	u	James Stephen	Sir George Johnstone Hope	Resignation

4 May 1815	Aldborough	u*	Henry Gally Knight	Granville Venables Vernon	Resignation

26 June 1815	Ludgershall	u	Sandford Graham	Charles Nicholas Pallmer	Resignation

3 July 1815	Pembroke Boroughs	u	Sir Thomas Picton	John Jones	Death (Killed in Action)

17 July 1815	Bedford	u	Samuel Whitbread	William Waldegrave	Death

19 July 1815	Wells	u*	Clement Tudway	John Paine Tudway	Death

21 July 1815	Winchelsea	u*	William John Frederick Vane Powlett	Henry Peter Brougham	Resignation to contest Durham

22 July 1815	Newcastle-under-Lyme	c	Earl Gower	Sir John Chetwode	Resignation to contest Staffordshire

31 July 1815	Staffordshire	u*	Lord Granville Leveson Gower	Earl Gower	Resignation pending elevation to the peerage

1 August 1815	County Durham	u*	Viscount Barnard	William John Frederick Vane Powlett	Resignation (Commission in the Army)

7 August 1815	Clackmannanshire	u	George Abercromby	Sir John Abercromby	Resignation

7 August 1815	County Londonderry	u*	William Ponsonby	George Robert Dawson	Death

23 September 1815	County Armagh	u	William Brownlow	Henry Caulfeild	Death

12 October 1815	Oxfordshire	u*	Lord Francis Almeric Spencer	William Henry Ashhurst	Elevation to the peerage

12 February 1816	Winchelsea	u	Calverley Bewicke	Viscount Barnard	Death

13 February 1816	County Wicklow	u*	William Hoare Hume	Granville Leveson Proby	Death

13 February 1816	Corfe Castle	u*	Peter William Baker	George Bankes	Death

14 February 1816	Seaford	u	John Leach	Sir Charles Cockerell	Resignation

20 February 1816	Weobley	u*	William Lennox Bathurst	Lord Frederick Cavendish Bentinck	Resignation (Deputy Teller of the Exchequer)

23 February 1816	Calne	u*	Joseph Jekyll	James Macdonald	Resignation

29 February 1816	Staffordshire	u*	Earl Gower	Earl Gower	Voted before taking oath

1 March 1816	Cockermouth	u*	Augustus John Foster	John Henry Lowther	Resignation

1 March 1816	Portarlington	u*	Arthur Shakespeare	Richard Sharp	Resignation

4 March 1816	Yarmouth	u	Sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery	John Leslie Foster	Resignation

6 March 1816	Sutherland	u*	James Macdonald	George Macpherson Grant	Resignation to contest Calne

8 March 1816	Carlisle	c*	Henry Fawcett	John Christian Curwen	Death

11 March 1816	West Looe	u	Charles Buller	Henry William Fitzgerald De Ros	Resignation

u*	Anthony Buller	Charles Hulse	Resignation (Puisne Judge at Madras)

12 March 1816	Minehead	u*	John Fownes Luttrell	Henry Fownes Luttrell	Death

13 March 1816	Lewes	c*	Thomas Read Kemp	Sir John Shelley	Resignation

19 March 1816	Newport (Cornwall)	u*	Jonathan Raine	Jonathan Raine	King's Counsel

21 March 1816	Haddingtonshire	u*	Charles Hope	Sir James Suttie	Resignation

26 March 1816	Lostwithiel	u	Reginald Pole Carew	Viscount Valletort	Resignation

29 March 1816	Lyme Regis	u*	Lord Burghersh	John Thomas Fane	Resignation

2 April 1816	Droitwich	u*	Sir Thomas Edward Winnington	The Earl of Sefton	Resignation

15 April 1816	East Looe	u*	David Vanderheyden	Thomas Potter MacQueen	Resignation

15 April 1816	Newport	u	John Delgarno	George Watson Taylor	Resignation

16 April 1816	Peterborough	u*	George Ponsonby	William Lamb	Resignation to contest Wicklow

18 April 1816	County Carlow	u	David Latouche	Robert Anthony Latouche	Death

19 April 1816	County Wicklow	u	William Tighe	George Ponsonby	Death

3 May 1816	Belfast	u	Stephen Edward May	John Michel	Resignation (Collector of Customs at Belfast)

8 May 1816	Armagh City	u	Patrick Duigenan	Daniel Webb Webber	Death

9 May 1816	Dartmouth	u*	Edmund Pollexfen Bastard	John Bastard	Resignation to contest Devon

10 May 1816	Rye	u	Thomas Phillipps Lamb	John Maberly	Resignation

13 May 1816	Devon	c*	John Pollexfen Bastard	Edmund Pollexfen Bastard	Death

17 May 1816	Warwick	u*	Lord Brooke	Sir Charles John Greville	Succeeded to a peerage

20 May 1816	Monmouthshire	u*	Lord Arthur John Henry Somerset	Lord Granville Somerset	Death

27 May 1816	Cardiganshire	u*	Thomas Johnes	William Edward Powell	Death

29 May 1816	Monmouth Boroughs	u*	Marquess of Worcester	Marquess of Worcester	Lord of the Admiralty

3 June 1816	Newtown	u*	Barrington Pope Blachford	Hudson Gurney	Death

5 June 1816	Buckingham	u	Viscount Ebrington	Viscount Ebrington	Resignation to contest Devon

7 June 1816	Mitchell	u	Lord Binning	Lord Binning	Commissioner of the Board of Control

12 June 1816	Liverpool	c*	George Canning	George Canning	President of the Board of Control

12 June 1816	Milborne Port	u*	Sir Edward Paget	Sir Edward Paget	Groom of the Bedchamber

15 June 1816	Gatton	u	Sir William Congreve	Mark Wood	Resignation

27 June 1816	Rochester	c*	Sir James Boulden Thompson	James Barnett	Resignation (Treasurer and Receiver General of Greenwich Hospital)

3 July 1816	Yarmouth	u	John Leslie Foster	John Leslie Foster	Advocate General for Ireland

8 July 1816	Nottinghamshire	u*	Viscount Newark	Lord William Henry Cavendish Bentinck	Succeeded to a peerage

8 July 1816	Wootton Bassett	c*	Robert Rickards	William Taylor Money	Resignation (ill-health)

12 July 1816	Plympton Erle	u*	William Douglas	Alexander Boswell	Resignation

19 July 1816	Dunbartonshire	u*	Archibald Campbell Colquhoun	Archibald Campbell Colquhoun	Lord Clerk Register

2 August 1816	Wigtownshire	u	William Stewart	James Hunter Blair	Resignation

13 August 1816	Whitchurch	u*	William Augustus Townshend	Horatio George Powys Townshend	Death

1 October 1816	Gloucester	c*	Robert Morris	Edward Webb	Death

5 October 1816	Lincolnshire	c	Charles Chaplin	William Cust	Death

7 October 1816	Dunwich	u*	The Lord Huntingfield	The Lord Huntingfield	Death

9 October 1816	Portsmouth	u*	Sir Thomas Miller	John Carter	Death

11 November 1816	Wilton	u*	Charles Herbert	Viscount FitzHarris	Death

5 December 1816	Worcestershire	u*	Viscount Elmley	Henry Beauchamp Lygon	Succeeded to a peerage

23 December 1816	Worcester	u*	Abraham Robarts	Viscount Deerhurst	Death

3 February 1817	Midhurst	u	Viscount Mahon	Sir Oswald Mosley	Succeeded to a peerage

6 February 1817	Hertford	u*	Edward Spencer Cowper	Viscount Cranborne	Resignation

8 February 1817	Malmesbury	u	William Hicks Beach	Sir William Abdy	Resignation

10 February 1817	Londonderry City	u*	Sir George Fitzgerald Hill	Sir George Fitzgerald Hill	Vice-Treasurer of Ireland

18 February 1817	Yarmouth	u	Richard Wellesley	Alexander Maconochie	Resignation

21 February 1817	Castle Rising	u*	Augustus Cavendish Bradshaw	Earl of Rocksavage	Resignation

26 February 1817	County Down	u*	John Meade	Lord Arthur Moyses William Hill	Resignation (Consul-General in Spain)

6 March 1817	Rochester	u*	James Barnett	James Barnett	Void Election

12 March 1817	St Mawes	u*	Francis Horner	Joseph Phillimore	Death

12 March 1817	Tavistock	u	Lord John Russell	Lord Robert Spencer	Resignation

17 March 1817	Colchester	u	Robert Thornton	Sir William Burroughs	Resignation

28 March 1817	Bridport	u*	William Draper Best	Henry Charles Sturt	Resignation (Puisne Justice of Chester)

11 April 1817	Clackmannanshire	u	Sir John Abercromby	Alexander Abercromby	Death

14 April 1817	Weymouth and Melcombe Regis	u	Viscount Cranborne	Adolphus John Dalrymple	Resignation to contest Hertford

14 May 1817	Dorchester	u*	Sir Samuel Shepherd	Sir Samuel Shepherd	Attorney General for England and Wales

16 May 1817	Eye	u*	Sir William Garrow	Robert Gifford	Resignation (Baron of the Exchequer)

24 May 1817	Norfolk	c*	Sir Jacob Henry Astley	Edmund Wodehouse	Death

10 June 1817	London	u*	Harvey Christian Combe	Matthew Wood	Resignation

10 June 1817	Oxford University	u*	Charles Abbot	Robert Peel	Elevation to the peerage

12 June 1817	Bossiney	u	The Earl of Desart	William Yates Peel	Resignation

19 June 1817	Chippenham	u	Robert Peel	John Maitland	Resignation to contest Oxford University

23 June 1817	Buckingham	u	Viscount Ebrington	James Hamilton Stanhope	Resignation

28 June 1817	Ludgershall	u*	Charles Nicholas Pallmer	The Earl of Carhampton	Resignation

22 July 1817	Harwich	u*	Nicholas Vansittart	Nicholas Vansittart	Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland

25 July 1817	Limerick City	c*	Charles Vereker	John Prendergast Vereker	Became an Irish Peer

12 August 1817	County Wicklow	u*	George Ponsonby	William Parnell Hayes	Death

6 September 1817	Glamorganshire	u	Benjamin Hall	Sir Christopher Cole	Death

5 November 1817	New Romney	u	Sir John Thomas Duckworth	Cholmeley Dering	Death

3 February 1818	Ripon	u*	Frederick John Robinson	Frederick John Robinson	Treasurer of the Navy

6 February 1818	Cockermouth	u	Thomas Wallace	Thomas Wallace	Vice-President of the Board of Trade

14 February 1818	Plymouth	u*	Benjamin Bloomfield	Sir William Congreve	Resignation (Keeper of the Privy Purse)

18 February 1818	Yarmouth	u	Alexander Maconochie	John Singleton Copley	Resignation to contest Anstruther

19 February 1818	Colchester	c*	Hart Davis	James Beckford Wildman	Resignation (Ill health)

26 February 1818	St Albans	c*	Joseph Thompson Halsey	William Tierney Robarts	Death

6 March 1818	Christchurch	u*	George Rose	George Henry Rose	Death

7 March 1818	Southampton	u*	George Henry Rose	William Chamberlayne	Clerk of the Parliaments

14 March 1818	Anstruther Easter Burghs	u*	Sir John Carmichael Anstruther	Alexander Maconochie	Death

18 March 1818	Winchester	u*	Richard Meyler	James Henry Leigh	Death

21 March 1818	Great Bedwyn	u*	James Henry Leigh	John Jacob Buxton	Resignation to contest Winchester

1 May 1818	Yarmouth	u	John Leslie Foster	John Leslie Foster	Second Counsel to the Commissioners of Revenue in Ireland

13 May 1818	East Grinstead	u*	Sir George Johnstone Hope	Lord Strathavon	Death

Sentence(s)

Idle was elected on 9 June 1813.

final_sentence: Idle was elected on 9 June 1813.