Ennis (UK Parliament constituency)

Ennis
Ennis
	Former Borough constituency; for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Number of members	One
Replaced by	East Clare

Ennis is a former United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801.

Boundaries

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Ennis in County Clare.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1801	John Ormsby Vandeleur	Tory	1801: Co-opted
	1802	Rt Hon. James Fitzgerald	Tory	Resigned (appointed Escheator of Munster)
	1808	Rt Hon. William Vesey-Fitzgerald	Tory	^a
	1812	Rt Hon. James Fitzgerald	Tory	Resigned (appointed Escheator of Munster)
	1813	Rt Hon. William Vesey-Fitzgerald	Tory	^a
	1818	Spencer Perceval	Tory	Not the Prime Minister assassinated in 1812 but his son
	1820	Sir Ross Mahon, Bt	Tory	Resigned (appointed Escheator of Munster)
	1820	Richard Wellesley	Tory
	1826	Thomas Frankland Lewis	Tory	Resigned
	1828	William Smith O'Brien	Tory	^b
	1831	Rt Hon. William Vesey-Fitzgerald	Tory	Succeeded as the 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey^a
	1832	Sir Augustine Fitzgerald, Bt	Tory
	1832	Francis McNamara	Repeal Association
	1835	Hewitt Bridgeman	Liberal
	1847	James Patrick Mahon	Repeal Association^[1]^[2]
	1852	John Fitzgerald	Ind. Irish^[1]	Appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland, as a Whig
	1855		Whig^[3]
	1859		Liberal	Appointed Judge of the Irish Queen's Bench
	1860	William Stacpoole	Liberal	Sought re-election as a Home Rule League candidate
	1874	William Stacpoole	Home Rule League	Died
	1879	James Lysaght Finegan	Home Rule League	United Kingdom general election, 1880: Supporter of Parnellite faction. Resigned.
	1882	Matthew Joseph Kenny	Irish Parliamentary	Last MP for the constituency
1885		Constituency abolished

Notes:-

^a William Vesey Fitzgerald (MP for Ennis 1808–1812 and 1813–1818) appears to be the same person as William Vesey-Fitzgerald, the MP from 1831 to 1832. Walker includes all three terms as MP for Ennis in one index entry. The History of Parliament website confirms it was the same person and that he was also MP for Clare in 1818–1828, Newport, Cornwall in 1829 and Lostwithiel in 1830.^[4]
^b Stooks Smith classifies O'Brien as a Whig MP, but the Wikipedia biographical article suggests he was a Conservative MP (i.e. a Tory) in 1828–1831.

Elections

Elections in the 1850s

General Election 1852: Ennis^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent Irish	John FitzGerald	59	56.2	*N/A*
	Whig	James Patrick Mahon	46	43.8	N/A
Majority			13	12.4	N/A
Turnout			105	73.4	N/A
Registered electors			143
	Independent Irish gain from Irish Repeal		Swing	N/A

FitzGerald was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland, requiring a by-election.

By-election, 8 March 1855: Ennis^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	John FitzGerald	Unopposed
Registered electors			303
	Whig gain from Independent Irish

FitzGerald was appointed Attorney-General for Ireland, requiring a by-election.

By-election, 8 April 1856: Ennis^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Whig	John FitzGerald	Unopposed
	Whig gain from Independent Irish

General Election 1857: Ennis^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	John FitzGerald	Unopposed
Registered electors			161
	Whig gain from Independent Irish

General Election 1859: Ennis^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John FitzGerald	Unopposed
Registered electors			191
	Liberal hold

FitzGerald was appointed Attorney-General for Ireland, requiring a by-election.

By-election, 29 June 1859: Ennis^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John FitzGerald	Unopposed
Registered electors			191
	Liberal hold

Elections in the 1860s

Fitzgerald resigned after being appointed a judge of the Queen's Bench, causing a by-election.

By-election, 20 February 1860: Ennis^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	William Stacpoole	Unopposed
	Liberal hold

General Election 1865: Ennis^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	William Stacpoole	97	72.9	*N/A*
	Liberal	Chartres Brew Molony	36	27.1	N/A
Majority			61	45.9	N/A
Turnout			133	70.4	N/A
Registered electors			189
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1868: Ennis^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	William Stacpoole	Unopposed
Registered electors			231
	Liberal hold

Elections in the 1870s

General Election 1874: Ennis^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Home Rule	William Stacpoole	115	53.7	*N/A*
	Home Rule	The O'Gorman Mahon	99	46.3	N/A
Majority			16	7.5	N/A
Turnout			214	88.4	N/A
Registered electors			242
	Home Rule gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A

Stacpoole's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 26 July 1879: Ennis^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Home Rule	James Lysaght Finegan	83	38.8	*N/A*
	Home Rule	William O'Brien	77	36.0	N/A
	Conservative	William Henry Wilson Fitzgerald	54	25.2	N/A
Majority			6	2.8	−4.7
Turnout			214	86.6	−1.8
Registered electors			247
	Home Rule hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1880: Ennis^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Home Rule League (Parnellite)	James Lysaght Finegan	124	56.6	*N/A*
	Home Rule	William O'Brien	95	43.4	N/A
Majority			29	13.2	+5.7
Turnout			219	88.7	+0.3
Registered electors			247
	Home Rule hold		Swing	N/A

Finegan resigned, causing a by-election.

By-election, 14 Nov 1882: Ennis^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Irish Parliamentary	Matthew Joseph Kenny	136	58.9	+2.3
	Conservative	Robert William Carey Reeves	95	41.1	N/A
Majority			41	17.7	+4.5
Turnout			231	87.8	−0.9
Registered electors			263
	Irish Parliamentary hold		Swing	N/A

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.
↑ "Mr. O'Gorman Mahon and the Repeal Association". Cork Examiner. 9 August 1847. p. 2. Retrieved 30 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
↑ "The Advocate; or, Irish Industrial Journal". 25 March 1857. p. 3. Retrieved 30 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
↑ "VESEY FITZGERALD (formerly FITZGERALD), William (?1782–1843), of Inchicronan, co. Clare". History of Parliament. Retrieved 8 March 2013.

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 "E" (part 2)

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[“walker”-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.

[2] "Mr. O'Gorman Mahon and the Repeal Association". Cork Examiner. 9 August 1847. p. 2. Retrieved 30 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).

[3] "The Advocate; or, Irish Industrial Journal". 25 March 1857. p. 3. Retrieved 30 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).

[4] "VESEY FITZGERALD (formerly FITZGERALD), William (?1782–1843), of Inchicronan, co. Clare". History of Parliament. Retrieved 8 March 2013.

Ennis
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Number of members	One
Replaced by	East Clare