{{Short description|New Zealand politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2014}} thumb|Sligo in 1905. '''Alexander Sligo''' (1832 – 1 December 1909) was a 19th-century New Zealand politician.
==Political career== {{NZ parlbox header|nolist=true|align=left}} {{NZ parlbox |start = {{By-election link year|City of Dunedin|1897}} |end = 1899 |term = 13th |electorate = {{NZ electorate link|City of Dunedin}} |party = Independent (politician) }} {{End}} He won one of the three seats for the City of Dunedin multi-member electorate in the {{By-election link|City of Dunedin|1897}}, held after MP Henry Fish died. He was defeated in the {{NZ election link|1899}}.<ref name="Wilson">{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= Jim | author-link=Jim Wilson (librarian) |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-date= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc=154283103 |page=235}}</ref>
He was a Conservative,<ref name=Wilson /> opposed to the Liberal government of Richard Seddon.
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