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 ]