County Wexford (UK Parliament constituency)

Wexford County
Wexford County
Former county constituency; for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Seats	Two
Replaced by	North Wexford and South Wexford

Wexford County was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, which returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the United Kingdom House of Commons.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Wexford, except for the Parliamentary boroughs of New Ross and Wexford Borough.

Members of Parliament

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1801, 1 January	style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	Viscount Loftus		rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Abel Ram	Tory^[1]
1806, 27 May	style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Caesar Colclough	Whig^[1]		Abel Ram	Tory^[1]
1806, 17 November	style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" \|	John Colclough	Whig^[1]	style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	Robert Shapland Carew
1807, 1 June	style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Abel Ram	Tory^[1]	style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" \|	William Congreve Alcock	Tory^[1]
1812, 10 October	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Robert Carew	Whig^[1]	style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	Sir Frederick Flood, Bt
1818, 21 July	style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" \|			Caesar Colclough	Whig^[1]
1820, 21 March	style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|			Viscount Stopford
1830, 19 August	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Arthur Chichester	Whig^[1]	style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Viscount Valentia	Tory^[1]
1831, 18 May	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Arthur Chichester	Whig^[1]	Henry Lambert	Whig^[1]
1831, 27 September	style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Robert Carew	Whig^[1]
1834, 3 July	style="background-color: Template:Repeal Association/meta/color" \|	Cadwallader Waddy	Repeal Association^[2]
1835, 27 January	style="background-color: Template:Repeal Association/meta/color" \|	John Maher	Repeal Association^[1]^[2]	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Repeal Association/meta/color" \|	James Power	Repeal Association^[1]^[2]
1841, 16 Jul	style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Villiers Francis Hatton	Whig^[1]		James Power	Repeal Association^[1]^[2]
1847, 10 August	style="background-color: Template:Repeal Association/meta/color" \|	James Fagan	Repeal Association^[2]	style="background-color: Template:Repeal Association/meta/color" \|	Hamilton Knox Grogan Morgan	Repeal Association^[2]
1852, 26 July	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Independent Irish Party/meta/color" \|	Patrick McMahon	Ind. Irish^[2]	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	John George	Conservative^[2]
1857, 10 March	style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" \|		Ind. Irish^[2]	John Hatchell	Whig^[3]^[4]
1859, 16 May	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|		Liberal^[2]	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	John George	Conservative^[2]
1865, 24 Jul	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Sir James Power, Bt.	Liberal^[2]		John George	Conservative^[2]
1866, 15 November	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Sir James Power, Bt.	Liberal^[2]	Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh	Conservative^[2]
1868, 24 November	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	John Talbot Power	Liberal^[2]	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Matthew Peter D'Arcy	Liberal^[2]
1874, 23 February	style="background-color: Template:Home Rule League/meta/color" \|	Sir George Bowyer, Bt.	Home Rule^[2]	style="background-color: Template:Home Rule League/meta/color" \|	Keyes O'Clery	Home Rule^[2]
1880, 14 April	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Home Rule League/meta/color" \|	John Barry	[[Template:Parnellite Home Rule League/meta/shortname]]^[2]	style="background-color: Template:Home Rule League/meta/color" \|	Garrett Byrne	[[Template:Parnellite Home Rule League/meta/shortname]]^[2]
1883, 15 June	style="background-color: Template:Irish Parliamentary Party/meta/color" \|	John Barry	[[Template:Parnellite Home Rule League/meta/shortname]]^[2]	John Francis Small	Irish Parliamentary^[2]
1885	Constituency divided: see North Wexford and South Wexford

Elections

Elections in the 1850s

General Election 1852: County Wexford^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Irish	Patrick McMahon	2,302	28.6	*N/A*
	Conservative	John George	1,556	19.3	*N/A*
	Whig	Hamilton Knox Grogan Morgan^[5]	1,545	19.2	N/A
	Whig	Robert Carew	1,412	17.5	N/A
	Peelite	Edward Westby Nunn^[6]	1,248	15.5	N/A
Turnout			4,032 (est)	68.1 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			5,917
Majority			746	9.3	N/A
	Independent Irish gain from Irish Repeal		Swing	N/A
Majority			11	0.1	N/A
	Conservative gain from Irish Repeal		Swing	N/A

General Election 1857: County Wexford^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Irish	Patrick McMahon	4,306	44.4	+15.8
	Whig	John Hatchell	2,870	29.6	−7.1
	Conservative	John George	2,522	26.0	+6.7
Turnout			4,849 (est)	76.1 (est)	+8.0
Registered electors			6,371
Majority			1,436	14.8	+5.5
	Independent Irish hold		Swing	+11.5
Majority			348	3.6	N/A
	Whig gain from Conservative		Swing	−6.9

General Election 1859: County Wexford^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Patrick McMahon	3,906	40.1	−4.3
	Conservative	John George	3,024	31.0	+5.0
	Liberal	John Hatchell	2,810	28.9	−0.7
Turnout			4,870 (est)	76.0 (est)	−0.1
Registered electors			6,406
Majority			882	9.1	−5.7
	Liberal hold		Swing	−3.4
Majority			214	2.2	N/A
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+5.0

Elections in the 1860s

General Election 1865: County Wexford^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John George	3,548	44.8	+13.8
	Liberal	James Power	2,616	33.1	+4.2
	Liberal	Patrick McMahon	1,750	22.1	−18.0
Majority			932	11.8	+9.6
Turnout			5,731 (est)	88.8 (est)	+12.8
Registered electors			6,457
	Conservative hold		Swing	+13.8
	Liberal hold		Swing	−1.4

George resigned after being appointed judge of the Queen's Bench Division.

By-election, 15 November 1866: County Wexford^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh	2,640	58.4	*N/A*
	Conservative	John Pope Hennessy	1,883	41.6	N/A
Majority			757	16.7	+4.9
Turnout			4,523	70.0	−18.8
Registered electors			6,457
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1868: County Wexford^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Power	Unopposed
	Liberal	Matthew Peter D'Arcy	Unopposed
Registered electors			6,204
	Liberal hold
	Liberal gain from Conservative

Elections in the 1870s

General Election 1874: County Wexford^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Home Rule	George Bowyer	3,407	39.0	*N/A*
	Home Rule	Keyes O'Clery	2,784	31.8	*N/A*
	Liberal	John Power	1,332	15.2	N/A
	Conservative	Robert Westley Hall Dare	1,224	14.0	N/A
Majority			1,452	16.6	N/A
Turnout			5,652 (est)	91.4 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			6,184
	Home Rule gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A
	Home Rule gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1880: County Wexford^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parnellite Home Rule League	John Barry	3,075	42.4	*N/A*
	Parnellite Home Rule League	Garrett Byrne	2,879	39.7	*N/A*
	Conservative	John George Gibbon	847	11.7	−2.3
	Home Rule	Keyes O'Clery	457	6.3	−25.5
Majority			2,032	28.0	+11.4
Turnout			4,281 (est)	74.0 (est)	−17.4
Registered electors			5,783
	Home Rule hold		Swing	N/A
	Home Rule hold		Swing	N/A

Byrne resigned, causing a by-election.

By-election, 13 June 1883: County Wexford^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Irish Parliamentary	John Francis Small	Unopposed
Registered electors			5,367
	Irish Parliamentary hold

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. p. 243. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via Google Books.
^ ^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 Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.
^ "Oxford University and City Herald". 18 April 1857. p. 8. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
^ "Wexford County". The Atlas. 18 April 1857. p. 3. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
^ "Evening Mail". 28 July 1852. p. 1. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
^ "Ireland". Morning Chronicle. 23 July 1852. p. 3. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)

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)
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 3)

[stookssmith1842-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. p. 243. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via Google Books.

[walker-2] ^ ^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 Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.

[3] "Oxford University and City Herald". 18 April 1857. p. 8. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)

[4] "Wexford County". The Atlas. 18 April 1857. p. 3. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)

[5] "Evening Mail". 28 July 1852. p. 1. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)

[6] "Ireland". Morning Chronicle. 23 July 1852. p. 3. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)

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