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The 1906 North Galway by-election was held on 28 February after the MP elected in the general election in January 1906, Thomas Higgins died before his election declaration at the 1906 General Election. ==1906 General 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. He had been President of the constituency branch of the UIL since 1900. Taken ill on the night of the election (25 January 1906), he died as the result of a heart attack in Guy's Hotel, Tuam, at 1.30am the following morning (26 January 1906). 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.〔"Deceased Candidate Elected", ''Irish Independent'', 27 January 1906, p. 4.〕〔''Irish Times'', 27 January 1906, p. 6〕 Higgins was elected posthumously, thereby creating an immediate vacancy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「North Galway by-election, 1906」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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