Monaghan (UK Parliament constituency)

Monaghan
Monaghan
	Former County constituency; for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	North Monaghan and South Monaghan

Monaghan is a former parliamentary constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Monaghan.

Year	1st Member		1st Party		2nd Party
1801		Richard Dawson		Warner Westenra
1801		Richard Dawson		Charles Powell Leslie II
1807		Thomas Corry
1812		Richard Dawson
1813		Thomas Corry
1818		Henry Westenra	Whig^[1]
1826		Henry Westenra	Whig^[1]	Evelyn Shirley	Tory^[1]
1830		Cadwallader Blayney	Tory^[1]^[2]	Evelyn Shirley	Tory^[1]
1831				Henry Westenra	Whig^[1]
1832				Louis Perrin	Whig^[1]
1834		Henry Westenra	Whig^[1]
1834, July		Edward Lucas	Tory^[1]^[2]
1834, December			Conservative^[1]^[2]
1835			Conservative^[1]^[2]	Henry Westenra	Whig^[1]
1841		Evelyn Shirley	Conservative^[1]^[2]	Henry Westenra	Whig^[1]
1843		Evelyn Shirley	Conservative^[1]^[2]	Charles Powell Leslie III	Conservative^[2]
1847		Thomas Vesey Dawson	Whig^[1]^[3]^[4]
1852		Sir George Forster, Bt	Conservative^[2]
1865		Vesey Dawson	Liberal^[2]
1868		Sewallis Shirley	Conservative^[2]
1871		Sewallis Shirley	Conservative^[2]	John Leslie	Conservative^[2]
1880		John Givan	Liberal^[2]	William Findlater	Liberal^[2]
1883		Tim Healy	Irish Parliamentary^[2]	William Findlater	Liberal^[2]
1885	constituency abolished: see North Monaghan and South Monaghan

General Election 1852: Monaghan^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Charles Powell Leslie	1,948	37.1	*N/A*
	Conservative	George Forster	1,900	36.1	*N/A*
	Independent Irish	John Gray	1,409	26.8	N/A
Majority			491	9.3	N/A
Turnout			3,333 (est)	80.9 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			4,119
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A
	Conservative gain from Whig		Swing	N/A

General Election 1865: Monaghan^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Charles Powell Leslie	2,551	35.6	*N/A*
	Liberal	Vesey Dawson	2,397	33.4	*N/A*
	Conservative	George Forster	2,218	30.9	N/A
	Liberal	Edward James Stanley	3	0.1	N/A
Turnout			4,782 (est)	89.4 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			5,350
Majority			154	2.1	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A
Majority			179	2.5	N/A
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A

General Election 1868: Monaghan^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Charles Powell Leslie	3,130	45.5	+9.9
	Conservative	Sewallis Shirley	2,785	40.5	+9.6
	Liberal	William Gray	960	14.0	−19.5
Majority			1,825	26.5	+24.4
Turnout			3,918 (est)	70.1 (est)	−19.3
Registered electors			5,591
	Conservative hold		Swing	+9.8
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+9.7

Leslie's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 22 Jul 1871: Monaghan^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Leslie	2,538	63.6	−22.4
	Home Rule	Isaac Butt	1,451	36.4	N/A
Majority			1,087	27.2	+0.7
Turnout			3,989	70.9	+0.8
Registered electors			5,623
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1874: Monaghan^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Leslie	2,481	35.4	−10.1
	Conservative	Sewallis Shirley	2,417	34.5	−6.0
	Home Rule	John Madden	2,105	30.1	N/A
Majority			312	4.5	−22.0
Turnout			4,554 (est)	81.9 (est)	+11.8
Registered electors			5,559
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1880: Monaghan^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	John Givan	2,818	29.4	*N/A*
	Liberal	William Findlater	2,545	26.6	*N/A*
	Conservative	John Leslie	2,117	22.1	−13.3
	Conservative	Sewallis Shirley	2,099	21.9	−12.6
Majority			428	4.5	N/A
Turnout			4,790 (est)	87.1 (est)	+5.2
Registered electors			5,496
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A

Givan was appointed Crown Solicitor for Kildare and Meath, causing a by-election.

By-election, 30 June 1883: Monaghan^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Irish Parliamentary	Tim Healy	2,376	51.0	*N/A*
	Conservative	John Monroe	2,011	43.1	−0.9
	Liberal	Henry Pringle	274	5.9	−50.1
Majority			365	4.5	N/A
Turnout			4,661	88.3	+1.2 (est)
Registered electors			5,281
	Irish Parliamentary gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. p. 235, 237. Retrieved 6 October 2018 – via Google Books.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.
↑ "Freeman's Journal". 13 July 1847. pp. 3–4. Retrieved 6 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
↑ "Evening Mail". 5 July 1847. p. 6. Retrieved 6 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).

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 "M" (part 3)

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Monaghan
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	North Monaghan and South Monaghan