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.
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 .
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
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