1892 Rangitikei by-election

1892 Rangitikei by-election

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Turnout	2,127
Candidate Robert Bruce John Stevens Party Conservative Independent Liberal Popular vote 1,094 1,033 Percentage 51.43 48.57
Member before election Douglas Macarthur Conservative Elected Member Robert Bruce Conservative

The 1892 Rangitikei by-election was a by-election held during the 11th New Zealand Parliament in the Rangitikei electorate of the North Island. This was the fifth by-election since the Rangitikei electorate was established for the 1861 election. The previous by-election took place in 1880 and the following one took place in 1909. Robert Bruce, who had previously been the MP for Rangitikei between 1884 and 1890, won the by-election narrowly.

This was the last election in Rangitikei and the fifth last election overall in New Zealand in which there was no universal suffrage. The Electoral Act 1893 extended voting rights to all women aged 21 and over.^[1]