Dec

1773

London

Contested

BY ELECTION

In the by-election of Dec 1773, 5155 people voted. There were 2 candidates, with Frederick Bull elected.

Poll book data from:
Citation: A corrected list of the persons who have polled for the Right Hon. Frederick Bull… (London: Charles Rivington, 1773)
Source: John Sims (ed.), A Handlist of British Parliamentary Poll Books (Leicester, 1984); Jeremy Gibson and Colin Rogers (eds.), Poll Books, 1696–1872: A Directory of Holdings in Great Britain (4th edn., Bury, 2008).

Timeline & Key Statistics

Contexts & Remarks

Transcription completed by the London Electoral History 1700-1850 project, undertaken by Penelope J. Corfield, Edmund M. Green, and Charles Harvey.

Date of the closure of the poll: 23 December 1773

Poll book reference: A corrected list of the persons who have polled for the Right Hon. Frederick Bull... (London: Charles Rivington, 1773) / 'A list of the persons who have polled for John Roberts...', London Evening Post Extraordinary (R. Page, [1773]).

By-election triggered by the death of Sir Robert Ladbroke.

Candidates: Frederick Bull and John Roberts. Frederick Bull was a tea merchant and a Baptist, who was associated with fellow radical John Wilkes.

The by-election returned Bull as MP for London.