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the declared candidates for the seat to withdraw in favour of his preferred candidate, Stewart
Derbishire, even though Derbishire had no connection to Bytown. As part of his arguments, Sydenham told them that it was due to his influence that Bytown had received its own seat, separate from Carleton County. The three candidates withdraw, but a fourth,
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In the first general election of 1841, Lord
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in the limit between lots lettered E. and F. in the broken concession D. on the River Rideau, in the
Township of Nepean ; then south sixty-six degrees west, one hundred and seventy-five chains, more or less, to the limit between lots numbers thirty-nine and forty, in the first concession from
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continued in his candidacy. When the vote was held in March, 1841, Derbishire was elected, by a vote of 52 to 29. Stewart issued two public protests, accusing the
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Election of 1841" (Ottawa: Historical Society of Ottawa / Société Historique d'Ottawa, Bytown Pamphlet Series No. 18, 1986).
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Bytown was represented by one member in the
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Bytown was represented by one member in the
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the power to draw the boundaries for the electoral district. The first
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provided that Bytown would constitute a separate electoral district in the
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of partisanship, but did not formally contest the result.
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