Dungarvan (UK Parliament constituency)
Dungarvan | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1801–1885 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | West Waterford |
Dungarvan was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which from 1801 to 1885 returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801, replacing the earlier Dungarvan constituency in the Parliament of Ireland.
Boundaries
This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Dungarvan in County Waterford. Until the Parliamentary Boundaries (Ireland) Act, 1832 (passed alongside the Irish Reform Act 1832) it was coterminous with the manor of Dungarvan, and the franchise was exercised by potwallopers of the town and forty shilling freeholders of the manor.[1][2] Commissioners appointed in 1832 and 1836 to revise Irish parliamentary borough boundaries described the old border as "supposed to contain about 10,000 Statute Acres" and with an "ill defined" boundary; their accompanying map shows several detached parts and enclaves.[1][2] Although the 1832 commissioners suggested radical simplification in the boundary, the only change in 1832 was to exclude the detached parts and include the enclosed enclaves to create a single area.[1][3] This boundary is marked in violet on the Ordnance Survey of Ireland's six-inch map, published a few years later.[4] The 1836 commissioners recommended a much smaller boundary, including the urban area and suburbs while excluding the large rural hinterland.[2]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1801 | Edward Lee | Whig | |
1802 | William Greene | Whig | |
1806 | Hon. George Walpole | Whig | |
1820 | Augustus Clifford | Whig | |
1822 | Hon. George Lamb | Whig[5] | |
1834 | Ebenezer Jacob | Radical[5] | |
1835 | Michael O'Loghlen | Whig[5] | |
Feb. 1837 | John Power | Whig[5] | |
Aug. 1837 | Cornelius O'Callaghan | Whig[5] | |
1841 | Richard Lalor Sheil | Radical[5][6][7] | |
1851 | Charles Ponsonby, later Baron de Mauley | Whig[5][8][9] | |
1852 | John Maguire | Ind. Irish[10][11] | |
1859 | Liberal[10] | ||
1865 | Charles Robert Barry | Liberal[10] | |
1868 | Henry Matthews | Liberal[10] | |
1874 | John O'Keeffe | Home Rule[10] | |
1877 | Frank Hugh O'Donnell | Home Rule[10] |
Elections
Elections in the 1850s
Due to both ill health and to become a priest in Tuscany, Sheil resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.[12]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Whig | Charles Ponsonby | 158 | 65.6 | ||
Radical | John Maguire[13] | 83 | 34.4 | ||
Majority | 75 | 31.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 241 | 76.8 | |||
Registered electors | 314 | ||||
Whig gain from Radical | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent Irish | John Maguire | 127 | 52.3 | ||
Whig | Edmund O'Flaherty[14] | 116 | 47.7 | ||
Majority | 11 | 4.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 243 | 77.4 | |||
Registered electors | 314 | ||||
Independent Irish gain from Radical | Swing | ||||
In order to enable the withdrawal of an election petition filed by O'Flaherty, Maguire resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.[15]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Independent Irish | John Maguire | 150 | 65.8 | +13.5 | |
Conservative | William Henry Gregory | 78 | 34.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 72 | 31.6 | +27.1 | ||
Turnout | 228 | 75.2 | −2.2 | ||
Registered electors | 303 | ||||
Independent Irish hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent Irish | John Maguire | 123 | 54.2 | +1.9 | |
Conservative | John Nugent Humble | 104 | 45.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 19 | 8.4 | +3.9 | ||
Turnout | 227 | 85.3 | +7.9 | ||
Registered electors | 266 | ||||
Independent Irish hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Maguire | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 280 | ||||
Liberal gain from Independent Irish |
Elections in the 1860s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Liberal | Charles Robert Barry | 112 | 54.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | William Palliser | 94 | 45.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 18 | 8.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 206 | 80.2 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 257 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Henry Matthews | 155 | 59.6 | N/A | |
Liberal | Charles Robert Barry | 105 | 40.4 | −14.0 | |
Majority | 50 | 19.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 260 | 83.6 | +3.4 | ||
Registered electors | 311 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1870s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Home Rule | John O'Keefe | 131 | 53.3 | N/A | |
Liberal | Henry Matthews | 115 | 46.7 | −12.9 | |
Majority | 16 | 6.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 246 | 85.4 | +1.8 | ||
Registered electors | 288 | ||||
Home Rule gain from Liberal | Swing | N/A | |||
O'Keefe's death caused a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Home Rule | Frank Hugh O'Donnell | 137 | 53.5 | +0.2 | |
Liberal | Henry Matthews | 119 | 46.5 | −0.2 | |
Majority | 18 | 7.0 | +0.5 | ||
Turnout | 256 | 80.5 | −4.9 | ||
Registered electors | 318 | ||||
Home Rule hold | Swing | +0.2 |
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Home Rule | Frank Hugh O'Donnell | 132 | 57.6 | +4.3 | |
Liberal | Henry Matthews | 97 | 42.4 | −4.3 | |
Majority | 35 | 15.3 | +8.8 | ||
Turnout | 229 | 97.4 | +12.0 | ||
Registered electors | 235 | ||||
Home Rule hold | Swing | +4.3 |
Sources
- The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
- Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 4)
References
- 1 2 3 Instructions by Secretary for Ireland, respecting Cities and Boroughs in Ireland sending Representatives to Parliament; Reports of Commissioners. Sessional papers. Vol.43 No.519. Sessional papers. 8 June 1832. pp. 65–68. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- 1 2 3 "Dungarvan". Reports and instructions by Lord Lieutenant, with reference to boundaries and divisions of cities, boroughs and towns corporate in Ireland. Sessional papers. Vol.29 No.301. 10 May 1837. pp. 78–80.
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel (1837). "Appendix, Shewing the Boundaries of the Cities and Boroughs in Ireland, as adopted and defined by the Act passed in the 2nd and 3rd of William IV., cap. 89, intituled "An Act to settle and describe the Limits of Cities, Towns, and Boroughs in Ireland, in so far as respects the Election of Members to serve in Parliament."". A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland:.
- ↑ "Six-inch map centred on Dungarvan, showing parliamentary boundary". Mapviewer. Ordnance Survey Ireland. 1839–41. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. pp. 89–90, 226–227. Retrieved 30 September 2018 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Churton, Edward (1838). The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer: 1838. p. 205. Retrieved 30 September 2018 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "General Election". Morning Post. 6 July 1841. pp. 3–4. Retrieved 30 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "Ireland". John Bull. 22 March 1851. p. 11. Retrieved 30 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "Ireland". London Daily News. 20 March 1851. p. 6. Retrieved 30 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.
- ↑ "Dublin Weekly Nation". 11 April 1857. p. 5. Retrieved 30 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ Jenkins, Brian (3 January 2008) [2004]. "Sheil, Richard Lalor (1791–1851)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25301. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ "Ireland". Reading Mercury. 22 March 1851. p. 4. Retrieved 30 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "London Nonconformist". 26 March 1856. p. 13. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
- ↑ "Belfast Mercury". 26 August 1853. p. 1. Retrieved 30 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).