1842 Liverpool by-election

{{Short description|UK parliamentary by-election}}

The 1842 Liverpool by-election was held on 8 February 1842 and resulted in the election of the unopposed Conservative candidate Howard Douglas.{{cite news |title=Liverpool Election|work=Dublin Monitor |date=9 February 1842|accessdate=19 September 2016 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000807/18420209/019/0002| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }} It was caused by the resignation of the previous Conservative MP, Cresswell Cresswell, when he was made a judge of the Court of Common Pleas by the Prime Minister Robert Peel.{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Cresswell, Sir Cresswell |volume=7 |page=413}}