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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
The constituency was created at the Act of Union 1800 , replacing the earlier 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: see East Mayo , North Mayo , South Mayo and West Mayo .
Boundaries
This constituency comprised the whole of County Mayo .
Members of Parliament
Year
1st Member
1st Party
2nd Member
2nd Party
1801, 1 January
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Denis Browne
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George Jackson
1802, 22 July
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Henry Dillon-Lee
1814, 5 March
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Dominick Browne
Whig [1]
1818, 4 July
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James Browne
1826, 24 June
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Lord Bingham
1830, 14 August
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Dominick Browne
Whig [1]
1831, 19 May
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John Denis Browne
Whig [1]
1835, 24 January
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Sir William Brabazon, Bt
Repeal Association [1] [2]
1836, 6 May
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Robert Dillon Browne
Repeal Association [1] [2]
1840, 16 December
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Mark Blake
Repeal Association [1] [2]
1846, 2 March
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Joseph Myles McDonnell
Repeal Association [2]
1847, 14 August
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George Henry Moore [3]
Whig [4] [5] [6]
1850, 29 July
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George Gore Ousley Higgins
Whig [7] [8] [9]
1852, 26 July
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Independent Irish [2]
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Independent Irish [2]
1857, 10 April
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Roger Palmer
Conservative [2]
1857, 30 December
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Lord John Browne
Whig [10]
1859, 13 May
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Liberal [2]
1865, 19 July
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Lord Bingham
Conservative [2]
1868, 23 November
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George Henry Moore
Liberal [2]
1870, 12 May
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George Eakins Browne
Liberal [2]
1874, 7 Feb [11]
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Home Rule League [2]
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Thomas Tighe
Home Rule League [2]
1874, 1 June
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John O'Connor Power
Home Rule League [2]
1880, 15 April
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Charles Stewart Parnell [12]
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1880, 26 May
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Isaac Nelson
Home Rule League [2]
1882 [13]
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Irish Parliamentary Party
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Irish Parliamentary Party
1885
Constituency divided: see East Mayo , North Mayo , South Mayo and West Mayo
Elections
The elections in this constituency took place using the first past the post electoral system. [citation needed ]
Elections in the 1850s
Browne's death caused a by-election.
On petition, Moore was unseated, causing a by-election.
Elections in the 1860s
Elections in the 1870s
Moore's death caused a by-election.
On petition, Browne and Tighe were unseated.
Elections in the 1880s
Parnell was also elected MP for Cork City and opted to sit there, causing a by-election.
Notes
^ a b c d e f 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 .
^ 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 Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922 . Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. 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