John Fleming (Devonport MP)

For other people named John Fleming, see John Fleming (disambiguation).

John Fleming, from Bigadon in Devon^[1] (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.^[2] At the general election in July 1865 he won the seat,^[1][2] but an election petition led to the election of both of Devonport's MPs being declared void on 9 May 1866.^[2][3][4]

He did not stand again until the 1874 general election, when he was an unsuccessful candidate in Barnstaple.^[5]