Downpatrick (UK Parliament constituency)
Downpatrick | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1801–1885 | |
Number of members | 1 |
Replaced by | East Down |
Downpatrick 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 Downpatrick in County Down.
Members of Parliament[]
Election | Member | Party | Note | |
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1801, January 1 | 1801: Co-opted. Appointed Commissioner of Compensation. | |||
Samuel Campbell Rowley | ||||
1802, July 17 | ||||
1806, November 18 | Edward Southwell Ruthven | Whig[1] | 1 | |
1807, May 22 | John Wilson Croker | Tory[1] | 1 | |
1812, October 20 | Whig[1] | Appointed a Commissioner of Excise in Ireland | ||
Viscount Glerawley | Tory[1] | |||
1818, August 4 | ||||
1820, March 28 | Tory[1] | |||
1826, July 25 | ||||
1830, August 7 | Edward Southwell Ruthven | Whig[1] | ||
1831, June 14 | ||||
1832, December 13 | Tory[1] | |||
1834, December | Conservative[1] | |||
1835, January 9 | Conservative[1] | |||
1837, July/August | ||||
1841, July 2 | David Stewart Ker | Conservative[1] | ||
1847, August 4 | Richard Ker | Peelite | Resigned | |
Hon. Charles Hardinge | Conservative | Became the 2nd Viscount Hardinge, 24 September 1856 | ||
1852, July | ||||
Richard Ker | Peelite 3 | |||
1857, March/April | ||||
1859, May 3 | David Stewart Ker | Conservative | ||
1865, July | Resigned | |||
William Keown | Conservative | |||
1868, Nov/Dec | ||||
1874, February 2 | John Mulholland | Conservative | Last MP for the constituency | |
1885 | Constituency abolished |
Supplemental notes
- Stooks Smith suggests that after the 1806 election there was a petition, which led to Edward Southwell Ruthven (Whig) being unseated and John Wilson Croker {Tory} being declared duly elected. Walker does not make any reference to such a petition.
- Walker (like F. W. S. Craig in his compilations of election results for Great Britain) classifies Tory candidates as Conservatives from 1832. The name Conservative was gradually adopted as a description for the Tories. The party is deemed to be named Conservative from the 1835 general election.
- Walker (like F. W. S. Craig in his compilations of election results for Great Britain) classifies Whig, Radical and similar candidates as Liberals from 1832. The name Liberal was gradually adopted as a description for the Whigs and politicians allied with them, before the formal creation of the Liberal Party shortly after the 1859 general election.
Elections[]
Elections in the 1830s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Whig | Edward Southwell Ruthven | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | c. 400 | ||||
Whig gain from Tory |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | Edward Southwell Ruthven | 219 | 57.9 | ||
Tory | Cospatrick Home | 159 | 42.1 | ||
Majority | 60 | 15.8 | |||
Turnout | 378 | c. 94.5 | |||
Registered electors | c. 400 | ||||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tory | John Waring Maxwell | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 517 | ||||
Tory gain from Whig |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Guardi Ker | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 525 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Guardi Ker | 154 | 51.0 | ||
Conservative | John Keown | 140 | 46.4 | ||
Radical | Robert Thompson | 5 | 1.7 | ||
Radical | James Christie Whyte | 3 | 1.0 | ||
Majority | 14 | 4.6 | |||
Turnout | 302 | 52.1 | |||
Registered electors | 580 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1840s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Stewart Ker | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 342 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Peelite | Richard Ker | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 385 | ||||
Peelite gain from Conservative |
Elections in the 1850s[]
Ker resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Charles Hardinge | Unopposed | |||
Conservative gain from Peelite |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Charles Hardinge | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 236 | ||||
Conservative gain from Peelite |
Hardinge succeeded to the peerage, becoming 2nd Viscount Hardinge and causing a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Peelite | Richard Ker | 129 | 99.2 | New | |
Conservative | William Johnston | 1 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 128 | 98.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 130 | 66.3 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 196 | ||||
Peelite gain from Conservative | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Peelite | Richard Ker | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 196 | ||||
Peelite gain from Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Stewart Ker | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 199 | ||||
Conservative gain from Peelite |
Elections in the 1860s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Stewart Ker | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 230 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Ker resigned, causing a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Keown | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Keown | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 241 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1870s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Mulholland | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 239 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1880s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Mulholland | 176 | 64.0 | N/A | |
Liberal | Alexander Fraser | 99 | 36.0 | New | |
Majority | 77 | 28.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 275 | 90.5 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 304 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
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References[]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Stooks Smith, Henry (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections: Containing the Uncontested Elections Since 1830. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. pp. 222–223. Retrieved 14 May 2020 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.
- ^ a b Farrell, Stephen. . The History of Parliament. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
- ^ "Election News". Yorkshire Gazette. 12 August 1837. p. 3. Retrieved 14 May 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- 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)
- Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 3)
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- Westminster constituencies in County Down (historic)
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1801
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1885
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