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1860 Londonderry City by-election

  • ... that Irish Conservative William McCormick won the 1860 Londonderry City by-election partly because of the support of his Catholic workers, who had previously voted for the Liberal Party? "from 1830 until his death in 1860 Catholics had supported the wealthy and largely apolitical Sir Robert Ferguson" from: Hoppen, Karl Theodore (1984). Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland, 1832-1885. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 269. ISBN 978-0-19-822630-7. and "McCormick who employed a large number of Catholic labourers on his works began immediately to deploy considerable influence upon them with the result that within a short time the catholic vote splintered and Greer who had originally been promised their votes received in the end only a handful" from: Murphy, Desmond (1981). Derry, Donegal, and Modern Ulster, 1790-1921. Londonderry: Aileach Press. p. 115.

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