Election Results
At the 1868 general election and the 1874 general election, the two Conservative Party candidates were returned unopposed: Lord Eustace Cecil and Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson.
The only contested election in Western Essex was in 1880, when the former King's Lynn MP Sir Thomas Buxton failed to win a seat for the Liberal Party.
| General Election 1880: Essex Western | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson | 2,664 | 39.0 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Lord Eustace Cecil | 2,397 | 35.1 | N/A | |
| Liberal | Sir Thomas Buxton, Bt | 1,772 | 25.9 | N/A | |
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