{{Short description|New Zealand politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2014}} {{NZ parlbox header|nolist=true|align=right}} {{NZ parlbox |start = {{By-election link year|Port Chalmers|1867}} |end = 1870 |term = 4th |electorate = {{NZ electorate link|Port Chalmers}} |party = Independent politician }} {{End}} '''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.<ref name="1866 election">{{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 |archive-date=10 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110163303/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LWM18660328.2.7 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Main represented the Port Chalmers electorate from {{By-election link year|Port Chalmers|1867}} to 1870, when he retired.<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=218}}</ref>
He was a barrister and died in Dunedin aged 48.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW18800731.2.45 |title=Death |publisher=Otago Witness |date=31 July 1880 |access-date=27 December 2018 |archive-date=27 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227181516/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW18800731.2.45 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT18800728.2.8 |title=Death |publisher=Otago Daily Times |date=28 July 1880 |access-date=27 December 2018 |archive-date=27 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227181502/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT18800728.2.8 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{s-par | nz}} {{s-bef | before = Thomas Dick }} {{s-ttl | title= Member of Parliament for Port Chalmers| years=1867–1870}} {{s-aft | after = James Macandrew }} {{s-end}}
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