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The 1873 Orkney and Shetland by-election was fought on 6–7 January 1873. The by-election was fought due to the Death of the incumbent MP of the Liberal Party, Frederick Dundas. It was won by the Liberal candidate, former Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Railway Administrator Samuel Laing.^[1]

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1860s	January 1868: Kirkcudbrightshire January 1869: Renfrewshire Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire Wigtown Burghs Hawick Burghs March 1869: Dumfriesshire August 1869: Caithness November 1869: Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities
1870s	March 1870: Roxburghshire February 1872: Wick Burghs June 1872: Aberdeen December;1872: Kincardineshire Forfarshire January 1873: Orkney and Shetland February 1873: Wigtownshire June 1873: Berwickshire August 1873: Dundee September 1873: Renfrewshire December 1873: Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities March 1874: Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities Inverness-shire Falkirk Burghs April 1985: Kirkcaldy Burghs December 1875: East Aberdeenshire May 1876: West Aberdeenshire November 1876: Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities January 1878: Greenock Leith Burghs Perth February 1878: Perthshire August 1878: Haddington Burghs Argyllshire February 1879: Haddington Burghs July 1879: Glasgow September 1879: Elginshire and Nairnshire
1880s	May 1880: Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire Wigtown Burghs July 1880: Bute Wigtown Burghs November 1880: Renfrewshire December 1880: Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire January 1881: Edinburgh July 1881: Elgin Burghs August 1881: Elgin Burghs May 1882: Hawick Burghs August 1882: Haddington Burghs November 1882: Edinburgh February 1883: Haddingtonshire August 1884: Ross and Cromarty October 1884: Stirling Burghs November 1884: Greenock March 1885: Glasgow July 1885: Bute January 1886: Edinburgh South February 1886: Edinburgh South Stirling Burghs Midlothian Hawick Burghs Elgin Burghs Banffshire Berwickshire Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire August 1886: Buteshire Wigtownshire Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities Leith Burghs August 1887: Glasgow Bridgeton February 1888: Dundee Edinburgh West April 1888: Mid Lanarkshire June 1888: Ayr Burghs November 1888: Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities January 1889: Govan February 1889: East Perthshire July 1889: West Fife September 1889: Dundee October 1889: Elginshire and Nairnshire
1890s	February 1890: Partick March 1890: Ayr Burghs November 1890: Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities June 1891: Paisley October 1891: Buteshire March 1892: Kirkcaldy Burghs August 1892: Aberdeen South Glasgow Bridgeton ]Midlothian Forfarshire Elgin Burghs Stirling Burghs Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire East Fife September 1892: Dundee December 1892: East Aberdeenshire March 1893: Banffshire June 1893: Linlithgowshire March 1894: Leith Burghs Hawick Burghs Berwickshire April 1894: Mid Lanarkshire May 1894: Dumfries Burghs November 1894: Forfarshire May 1895: Edinburgh West June 1895: Inverness-shire August 1895: Inverness Burghs February 1896: Montrose Burghs May 1896: Aberdeen North Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities June 1896: Wick Burghs January 1897: Forfarshire February 1897: Glasgow Bridgeton February 1899: North West Lanarkshire June 1899: Edinburgh South Edinburgh East December 1899: Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities
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