[1] The Elections and Qualifications Committee consisted of 9 members, 5 Free Trade (Thomas Bavister, William McMillan, Philip Morton, Varney Parkes and Bernhard Wise) and four Protectionist (Paddy Crick, James Gormly, James Hayes, and Francis Wright).
[2] The committee declared that George Greene (Free Trade) had not been elected the member for Grenfell, however no by-election was conducted.
Instead the committee declared that Michael Loughnane (Labour) based on its own count of the result.
[c] A public meeting at Grenfell expressed indignation at the unfairness of the decision.
The meeting called for the abolition of the parliamentary Elections and Qualifications Committee and its replacement by a tribunal outside of parliament.