1906 North Galway by-election

Higgins, originally from Monivea, who was chairman of Tuam Board of Guardians and a member of Galway County Council, was selected as the Irish Parliamentary Party candidate by the United Irish League (UIL) convention on 5 January 1906 to contest the 1906 general election.As was widely expected, Higgins topped the poll at the election count, which was held later on the day of his death, beating the incumbent MP, John Philip Nolan, who had stood as an Independent Nationalist.Higgins, who received 2,685 votes (Nolan took 1,064), was posthumously declared elected by the county sheriff, the returning officer.The 25-year-old Richard Hazleton, a Blackrock District councillor[3] who had unsuccessfully contested South Dublin in the 1906 election,[4] was selected as the Irish Parliamentary Party candidate.[6] This circumstance occurred again to Noel Skelton in 1935, and to Sir Edward Taswell Campbell and Leslie Pym in 1945; however, all of them were candidates for re-election.
North Galwayby-electiongeneral election in January 1906Thomas HigginsMoniveaBoard of GuardiansGalway County CouncilUnited Irish League1906 general electionheart attackJohn Philip NolanIndependent NationalistRichard HazletonBlackrock District councillorSouth DublinNoel SkeltonEdward Taswell CampbellLeslie PymBy-elections28th Parliament of the United KingdomWestburyCity of LondonEast AberdeenshireNorth LeitrimNorth KilkennyBasingstokeLeicesterDulwichEifionSt George's, Hanover SquareBodminEast TyroneCockermouthEast DenbighshireMid GlamorganshireGalwayNorth ArmaghHuddersfieldMid CorkNorth East DerbyshireBanffshireNorth MonmouthshireAberdeen SouthHalifaxNorth TyroneHexhamSouth WestmeathBelfast NorthStepneyWimbledonHornseyRutlandNorth MonaghanJarrowColne ValleySouth KilkennyEast WicklowNorth West StaffordshireAngleseyBury St EdmundsWest DownSouth LongfordLiverpool KirkdaleKingston upon Hull WestAshburtonCarlow CountySt AustellWorcesterLeeds SouthWest CarmarthenshireBewdleyHastingsPeckhamWest DerbyshireSheffield CentralDewsburyManchester North WestKincardineshireWolverhampton EastDundeeMontrose BurghsNewportStirling BurghsPudseyPembrokeshireHaggerstonNewcastle-upon-TyneChelmsfordTamworthTauntonForfarshireGlasgow CentralEdinburgh SouthHawick BurghsCroydonEdinburgh EastSheffield AttercliffeStratford-on-AvonEdinburgh WestEast LimerickClevelandMid DerbyshireDumfries BurghsHigh PeakNorth SligoWest ClareBermondseySouth Armagh1801–18061806–18181818–18321832–18471847–18571857–18681868–18851885–19001900–19181918–19311931–19501950–19791979–20102010–presentHereditary peers