Roscommon (UK Parliament constituency)
Roscommon | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
1801–1885 | |
Number of members | Two |
Replaced by | North Roscommon and South Roscommon |
Roscommon was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland. The constituency sent two MPs to Westminster from the Act of Union 1800 until the constituency was split into Roscommon North and Roscommon South in 1885.
Boundaries
This constituency comprised the whole of County Roscommon.
Members of Parliament
Year | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
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1801 | Arthur French (I) | Thomas Mahon | ||||
1802 | Edward King | |||||
1806 | Stephen Mahon | |||||
1821 | Arthur French (II) | Whig[1] | ||||
1826 | Robert King | |||||
1826 | Owen O'Conor | Whig[1] | ||||
1831 | Denis O'Conor | Repeal Association[2] | ||||
1832 | Fitzstephen French | Whig[1][3][4] | ||||
1847 | Oliver Dowell John Grace | Whig[3][4] | ||||
1852 | Ind. Irish[2] | Ind. Irish[2] | ||||
1857 | Whig[1][2][3][4] | Whig[2][3][4] | ||||
1859 | Liberal[2] | Thomas William Goff | Conservative[2] | |||
1860 | Charles Owen O'Conor | Liberal[2] | ||||
1873 | Charles French | Liberal[2] | ||||
1874 | Home Rule League[2] | Home Rule League[2] | ||||
1880 | Andrew Commins | [[Home Rule League]] [[Charles Stewart Parnell|(Parnellite)]][2] | James O'Kelly | [[Home Rule League]] [[Charles Stewart Parnell|(Parnellite)]][2] | ||
1885 | Constituency divided: see North Roscommon and South Roscommon |
Elections
Elections in the 1850s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Independent Irish | Fitzstephen French | Unopposed | |||
Independent Irish | Oliver Dowell John Grace | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 2,236 | ||||
Independent Irish gain from Whig | |||||
Independent Irish gain from Whig |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | Fitzstephen French | Unopposed | |||
Whig | Oliver Dowell John Grace | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 2,890 | ||||
Whig gain from Independent Irish | |||||
Whig gain from Independent Irish |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Liberal | Fitzstephen French | 1,930 | 40.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Thomas William Goff | 1,541 | 32.4 | N/A | |
Liberal | Edward King-Tenison | 1,280 | 26.9 | N/A | |
Liberal | Patrick Dignan | 3 | 0.0 | N/A | |
Turnout | 2,377 (est) | 71.1 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 3,345 | ||||
Majority | 389 | 8.2 | N/A | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Majority | 261 | 5.5 | N/A | ||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | N/A | |||
Elections in the 1860s
On petition, Goff was unseated and a by-election was called.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Charles Owen O'Conor | Unopposed | |||
Liberal gain from Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Fitzstephen French | Unopposed | |||
Liberal | Charles Owen O'Conor | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 3,650 | ||||
Liberal hold | |||||
Liberal gain from Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Fitzstephen French | Unopposed | |||
Liberal | Charles Owen O'Conor | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 3,814 | ||||
Liberal hold | |||||
Liberal hold |
Elections in the 1870s
French's death caused a by-election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Charles French | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 3,809 | ||||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Home Rule | Charles Owen O'Conor | Unopposed | |||
Home Rule | Charles French | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 3,710 | ||||
Home Rule gain from Liberal | |||||
Home Rule gain from Liberal |
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Home Rule League (Parnellite) | Andrew Commins | 1,585 | 31.1 | N/A | |
Home Rule League (Parnellite) | James Joseph O'Kelly | 1,479 | 29.0 | N/A | |
Home Rule | Charles Owen O'Conor | 1,107 | 21.7 | N/A | |
Home Rule | Thomas Austin Patrick Mapother | 933 | 18.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 372 | 7.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 2,552 (est) | 70.8 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 3,602 | ||||
Home Rule hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Home Rule hold | Swing | N/A |
References
- 1 2 3 4 Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. p. 238. Retrieved 8 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 22 Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.
- 1 2 3 4 "Election Details". The Examiner. 14 August 1847. pp. 8–11. Retrieved 8 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- 1 2 3 4 "Glove". 13 August 1847. p. 2. Retrieved 8 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 2)
- 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)
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