John Sangster Macfarlane [SEP] date of birth
John Sangster Macfarlane
John Sangster Macfarlane (1818–1880) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in Auckland, New Zealand.
He unsuccessfully contested the for , and the for . 
He then represented the Waitemata electorate from 1876 to 1879, when he was defeated.
Heyde had not yet been naturalised.
However the second (8 September) by-election confirmed von der Heyde as the MP.
In both by-elections he was challenged by John Sangster Macfarlane, who subsequently won the seat in the 1876 general election. Macfarlane favoured abolition of the provinces, and said that the Provincial government was against him.
Results.
The following tables gives the election results:
The poll totals for 8 September exclude 18 double votes for von der Heyde, 20 double votes for