John Fleming, from Bigadon in Devon (near Buckfastleigh), was a British Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Devonport for less than a year before his election was overturned.
Fleming first stood for Parliament at the Devonport by-election in June 1865, when he was defeated by the Liberal Party candidate Thomas Brassey.[1] At the general election in July 1865 he won the seat, but an election petition led to the election of both of Devonport's MPs being declared void on 9 May 1866.
He did not stand again until the 1874 general election, when he was an unsuccessful candidate in Barnstaple.[2]
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