David Forsyth Main

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David Forsyth Main (1831 – 27 July 1880) was a 19th-century member of parliament in Otago, New Zealand.

Main was one of three candidates in the {{NZ electorate link|Gold Field Towns}} electorate in the {{NZ election link|1866}}, when he came a close second to James Benn Bradshaw.{{cite news|title=Declaration of the Poll |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LWM18660328.2.7 |accessdate=10 January 2017 |work=Lake Wakatip Mail |issue=304 |date=28 March 1866 |page=2}}

Main represented the Port Chalmers electorate from {{By-election link year|Port Chalmers|1867}} to 1870, when he retired.{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |origyear= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc=154283103 |page=218}}

He was a barrister and died in Dunedin aged 48.{{cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW18800731.2.45? |title= Death |publisher= Otago Witness |date=31 July 1880 }}{{cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT18800728.2.8? |title= Death |publisher= Otago Daily Times |date=28 July 1880 }}