UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland, 1801–1885
This article is about the 19th-century constituency of the UK Parliament. For the contemporary Irish constituency, see
Mayo (Dáil constituency) .
County Mayo was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885.
History [ edit ]
The constituency was created in 1801 under the Acts of Union 1800 , succeeding the earlier County Mayo constituency in the pre-union Parliament of Ireland . Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 it was divided into four new single-seat constituencies: East Mayo , North Mayo , South Mayo and West Mayo .
Boundaries [ edit ]
This constituency comprised the whole of County Mayo .
Members of Parliament [ edit ]
Year
1st Member
1st Party
2nd Member
2nd Party
1801, 1 January
Denis Browne
George Jackson
1802, 22 July
Henry Dillon-Lee
1814, 5 March
Dominick Browne
Whig [1]
1818, 4 July
James Browne
Tory [2]
1826, 24 June
Lord Bingham
Non Partisan [3]
1830, 14 August
Dominick Browne
Whig [1]
1831, 19 May
John Denis Browne
Whig [1]
1835, 24 January
Sir William Brabazon, Bt
Repeal Association [1] [4]
1836, 6 May
Robert Dillon Browne
Repeal Association [1] [4]
1840, 16 December
Mark Blake
Repeal Association [1] [4]
1846, 2 March
Joseph Myles McDonnell
Repeal Association [4]
1847, 14 August
George Henry Moore [5]
Whig [6] [7] [8]
1850, 29 July
George Gore Ousley Higgins
Whig [9] [10] [11]
1852, 26 July
Independent Irish [4]
Independent Irish [4]
1857, 10 April
Roger Palmer
Conservative [4]
1857, 30 December
Lord John Browne
Whig [12]
1859, 13 May
Liberal [4]
1865, 19 July
Lord Bingham
Conservative [4]
1868, 23 November
George Henry Moore
Liberal [4]
1870, 12 May
George Eakins Browne
Liberal [4]
1874, 7 Feb [13]
Home Rule League [4]
Thomas Tighe
Home Rule League [4]
1874, 1 June
John O'Connor Power
Home Rule League [4]
1880, 15 April
Charles Stewart Parnell [14]
Parnellite Home Rule League [4]
1880, 26 May
Isaac Nelson
Home Rule League [4]
1882 [15]
Irish Parliamentary Party
Irish Parliamentary Party
1885
Constituency divided: see East Mayo , North Mayo , South Mayo and West Mayo
Elections [ edit ]
The elections in this constituency took place using the first past the post electoral system. [citation needed ]
Elections in the 1830s [ edit ]
Browne was elevated to the peerage, becoming 1st Baron Oranmore and causing a by-election.
Note (1836): Walker suggests 609 votes were placed for Robert Browne, and none for John Browne, but Stooks Smith's figures have been used above.
Elections in the 1840s [ edit ]
Brabazon's death caused a by-election.
Blake resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds , causing a by-election.
Elections in the 1850s [ edit ]
Browne's death caused a by-election.
On petition, Moore was unseated, causing a by-election.
Elections in the 1860s [ edit ]
Elections in the 1870s [ edit ]
Moore's death caused a by-election.
On petition, Browne and Tighe were unseated.
Elections in the 1880s [ edit ]
Parnell was also elected MP for Cork City and opted to sit there, causing a by-election.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. pp. 235–236. Retrieved 6 October 2018 – via Google Books .
^ Salmon, Philip. "BROWNE, James (1793-1854), of Claremont House, co. Mayo" . The History of Parliament . Retrieved 17 May 2020 .
^ a b c Salmon, Philip. "Co. Mayo" . The History of Parliament . Retrieved 17 May 2020 .
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922 . Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 230–231, 302–303. ISBN 0901714127 .
^ Following the general election in April 1857, the election of George Henry Moore was declared void on 14 July 1857. The writ was suspended until December 1857
^ "Galway Mercury, and Connaught Weekly Advertiser" . 17 July 1847. p. 4. Retrieved 6 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ "Ireland" . Worcestershire Chronicle . 11 March 1846. p. 7. Retrieved 6 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ "Leeds Intelligencer" . 28 August 1847. p. 4. Retrieved 6 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ "Notice" . Tipperary Free Press . 10 July 1850. p. 3. Retrieved 6 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ "Dublin Weekly Nation" . 20 July 1850. p. 8. Retrieved 6 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ "The Mayo Election" . Galway Vindicator, and Connaught Advertiser . 31 July 1850. pp. 2–3. Retrieved 6 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ "Northern Whig" . 9 January 1858. p. 2. Retrieved 6 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ Following the general election in February 1874, the election of the two sitting members (Browne and Tighe) was declared void on 7 May 1874
^ Parnell was also returned for both Meath and Cork. He chose to sit for Cork
^ There was no election in 1882, but in that year the Home Rule League was renamed as the Irish Parliamentary Party
References [ edit ]