Newry (UK Parliament constituency)

Newry
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1801–1918
Replaced by South Down

Newry was a 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 Newry in County Down.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberPartyNote
1801, January 1 John Moore 1801: Co-opted
1802, July 13 Rt Hon. Isaac Corry Whig
1806, November 15 Hon. Francis Needham (1) Tory[1] Became the 12th Viscount Kilmorey 1818
1819, March 6 Hon. Francis Needham (2) Tory Styled Viscount Newry 12 January 1822
1826, June 14 Hon. John Henry Knox Tory[1]
1832, December 27 Lord Marcus Hill Tory[1][2]
1834, December 18 Conservative[1][2]
1835, January 21 Denis Caulfield Brady Whig[1]
1837, August 4 John Ellis Conservative[1][2]
1841, July 8 Francis Needham (3) Conservative[1][2] Re-elected as a Peelite candidate
1847, August 2 Peelite[2] Died 6 May 1851
1851, May 30 Edmund Gilling Hallewell Conservative[2]
1852, July 19 William Kirk Whig[3]
1859, May 5 Peter Quinn Conservative[2]
1865, July 15 Arthur Charles Innes Conservative[2]
1868, November 18 William Kirk Liberal[2] Died 20 December 1870
1871, January 23 Francis Needham (4) Conservative[2]
1874, February 3 William Whitworth Liberal[2]
1880, April 3 Henry Thomson Conservative[2]
1885, November 24 Justin Huntly McCarthy Irish Parliamentary[2]
1892, July 7 Patrick Carvill Irish National Federation[2] Re-elected as an Irish Parliamentary Party candidate
1900, October 1 Irish Parliamentary[2]
1906, January 17 John Joseph Mooney Irish Parliamentary[2] Last MP for the constituency
1918 Constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1850s

Needham's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 30 May 1851: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Irish Conservative Edmund Gilling Hallewell Unopposed
Irish Conservative gain from Peelite
General Election 1852: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Whig William Kirk 233 53.3 N/A
Irish Conservative Edmund Gilling Hallewell 204 46.7 N/A
Majority 29 6.6 N/A
Turnout 437 84.5 N/A
Registered electors 517
Whig gain from Peelite Swing N/A
General Election 1857: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Whig William Kirk 246 51.5 −1.8
Irish Conservative Henry Waring 232 48.5 +1.8
Majority 14 2.9 −3.7
Turnout 478 90.7 +6.2
Registered electors 527
Whig hold Swing −1.8
General Election 1859: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Irish Conservative Peter Quinn 250 55.7 +7.2
Liberal Frederick William McBlain 197 43.9 N/A
Liberal William Kirk 2 0.4 −51.1
Majority 53 11.8 N/A
Turnout 449 84.9 −5.8
Registered electors 529
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +29.2

Elections in the 1860s

General Election 1865: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Irish Conservative Arthur Charles Innes 267 53.2 −2.5
Liberal William Miller Kirk 235 46.8 +2.9
Majority 32 6.4 −5.4
Turnout 502 93.1 +8.2
Registered electors 539
Irish Conservative hold Swing −2.7
General Election 1868: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal William Kirk 387 50.5 +3.7
Irish Conservative Francis Needham 379 49.5 −3.7
Majority 8 1.0 N/A
Turnout 766 96.2 +3.1
Registered electors 796
Liberal gain from Irish Conservative Swing +3.7

Elections in the 1870s

Kirk's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 23 Jan 1871: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Irish Conservative Francis Needham Unopposed
Registered electors 901
Irish Conservative gain from Liberal
General Election 1874: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal William Whitworth 459 50.2 −0.3
Irish Conservative Francis Needham 455 49.8 +0.3
Majority 4 0.4 −0.6
Turnout 914 92.3 −3.9
Registered electors 990
Liberal hold Swing −0.3

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1880: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Irish Conservative Henry Thomson 587 51.3 +1.5
Liberal Patrick Carvill 557 48.7 −1.5
Majority 30 2.6 N/A
Turnout 1,144 95.3 +3.0
Registered electors 1,201
Irish Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +1.5
General Election 1885: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Irish Parliamentary Justin Huntly McCarthy Unopposed
Registered electors 2,163
Irish Parliamentary gain from Irish Conservative
General Election 1886: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Irish Parliamentary Justin Huntly McCarthy 1,183 62.3 N/A
Liberal Unionist Reginald Cantley Saunders 716 37.7 N/A
Majority 467 24.6 N/A
Turnout 1,899 87.8 N/A
Registered electors 2,163
Irish Parliamentary hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Irish National Federation Patrick Carvill 907 53.2 N/A
Irish Unionist Henry Thomson 744 43.6 +5.9
Irish National League Robert Johnston 54 3.2 N/A
Majority 163 9.6 N/A
Turnout 1,705 92.3 +4.5
Registered electors 1,847
Irish National Federation gain from Irish Parliamentary Swing N/A
General Election 1895: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Irish National Federation Patrick Carvill 973 60.8 +7.6
Irish Unionist Henry Thomson 628 39.2 −4.4
Majority 345 21.5 +11.9
Turnout 1,601 85.5 −6.8
Registered electors 1,872
Irish National Federation hold Swing +6.0

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Irish Parliamentary Patrick Carvill Unopposed
Registered electors 1,789
Irish Parliamentary hold
General Election 1906: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Irish Parliamentary John Joseph Mooney 802 52.1 N/A
Independent Nationalist Patrick Carvill 736 47.9 N/A
Majority 66 4.3 N/A
Turnout 1,538 80.7 N/A
Registered electors 1,905
Irish Parliamentary hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Irish Parliamentary John Joseph Mooney 1,079 66.6 +14.5
Irish Unionist John Cusack 542 33.4 N/A
Majority 537 33.1 N/A
Turnout 1,621 80.2 −0.5
Registered electors 2,021
Irish Parliamentary hold Swing N/A
General Election December 1910: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Irish Parliamentary John Joseph Mooney Unopposed
Registered electors 2,021
Irish Parliamentary hold
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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. p. 237. Retrieved 6 October 2018 – via Google Books.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.
  3. ↑ Bew, Paul; Wright, Frank (1983). "The Agrarian Opposition in Ulster Politics, 1848–87". In Clark, Samuel; Donnelly, Jr., James S. Irish Peasants: Violence and Political Unrest 1780–1914. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press. p. 199. ISBN 0-299-09370-0. Retrieved 7 October 2018 – via Google Books.
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