Armagh City (UK Parliament constituency)

Armagh City
Armagh City
Former Borough constituency; for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Replaced by	Mid Armagh

Armagh City was a United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland.

Boundaries

This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Armagh in County Armagh. It was the successor constituency to the Armagh City constituency of the Parliament of Ireland.

The constituency was disenfranchised in the 1885 redistribution of parliamentary seats and incorporated into the county division of Mid Armagh.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" \|	1801, January 1	Patrick Duigenan	Tory	1801: Co-opted. 1816: Died.
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" \|	1816, May 8	Daniel Webb Webber	Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" \|	1818, June 26	John Leslie Foster	Tory	Also returned for Lisburn
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" \|	1820, March 16	William Stuart	Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" \|	1826, June 19	Rt Hon. Henry Goulburn	Tory^[1]
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" \|	1831, May 10	Viscount Ingestre	Tory^[1]	Resigned to contest Dublin
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" \|	1831, August 25	Sir John Brydges	Tory^[1]
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" \|	1832, December 15	Leonard Dobbin	Whig^[1]
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" \|	1837, August 7	William Curry	Whig^[1]	Appointed Master in Chancery
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" \|	1840, May 22	John Rawdon	Whig^[1]^[2]^[3]
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1852, July 9	Ross Stephenson Moore	Conservative^[4]	Died
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1855, December 6	Joshua Bond	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1857, April 2	Stearne Miller	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1859, May 5	Joshua Bond	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1865, July 17	Stearne Miller	Conservative	Appointed Judge in Bankruptcy
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1867, January 30	John Vance	Conservative	Died
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1875, October 18	George Beresford	Conservative	Last MP for the constituency
1885		Constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1850s

General Election, 9 July 1852: Armagh City^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Ross Stephenson Moore	Unopposed
Registered electors			318
	Conservative hold

Moore's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 6 December 1855: Armagh City^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joshua Bond	186	55.9	N/A
	Conservative	Thomas Ball Miller	147	44.1	N/A
Majority			39	11.7	N/A
Turnout			333	82.6	N/A
Registered electors			403
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General Election, 2 April 1857: Armagh City^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stearne Miller	175	51.9	N/A
	Conservative	Joshua Bond	162	48.1	N/A
Majority			13	3.9	N/A
Turnout			337	83.6	N/A
Registered electors			403
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General Election, 5 May 1859: Armagh City^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joshua Bond	201	59.5	+11.4
	Conservative	Stearne Miller	137	40.5	−11.4
Majority			64	18.9	+15.0
Turnout			338	82.8	−0.8
Registered electors			408
	Conservative hold		Swing	+11.4

Elections in the 1860s

General Election, 17 July 1865: Armagh City^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stearne Miller	184	52.1	+11.6
	Liberal	William Kirk	169	47.9	N/A
Majority			15	4.2	−14.7
Turnout			353	86.3	+3.5
Registered electors			409
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Miller was appointed a judge in bankruptcy, causing a by-election.

By-election, 30 January 1867: Armagh City^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Vance	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

General Election, 17 November 1868: Armagh City^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Vance	Unopposed
Registered electors			603
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1870s

General Election 9 April 1874: Armagh City^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Vance	325	60.3	N/A
	Liberal	George C Cochrane	214	39.7	N/A
Majority			111	20.6	N/A
Turnout			539	90.4	N/A
Registered electors			596
	Conservative hold

Vance died, causing a by-election.

By-election, 18 Oct 1875: Armagh City^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Beresford	278	53.0	N/A
	Conservative	William Squire Barker Kaye	247	47.0	N/A
Majority			31	5.9	N/A
Turnout			525	88.1	−2.3
Registered electors			596
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 9 April 1880: Armagh City^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	George Beresford	Unopposed
Registered electors			657
	Conservative hold

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. p. 215. Retrieved 15 September 2018 – via Google Books.
^ "The Elections". Dublin Weekly Nation. 7 August 1847. pp. 8–9. Retrieved 15 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
^ "Irish Members Returned". Sligo Journal. 13 August 1847. p. 4. Retrieved 15 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
^ "General Election". Cork Constitution. 13 July 1852. p. 4. Retrieved 15 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j 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 "A" (part 3)
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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[stookssmith1842-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. p. 215. Retrieved 15 September 2018 – via Google Books.

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[4] "General Election". Cork Constitution. 13 July 1852. p. 4. Retrieved 15 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)

[walker-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.

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