Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license.
Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat.
We can research this topic together.
UK Parliamentary by-election
The 1872 Tiverton by-election was fought on 4 November 1872. The byelection was fought due to the Resignation (Justice of the Court of Common Pleas) of the incumbent MP of the Liberal Party, George Denman. It was won by the Liberal candidate William Massey.