County Sligo (UK Parliament constituency)

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

Sligo County is a former county constituency in Ireland, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs), elected by the bloc vote system of election.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Sligo, except the Parliamentary borough of Sligo 1801-1870. From 1885 the constituency was divided into North Sligo and South Sligo.

Members of Parliament

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1801	style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |	Joshua Edward Cooper	Tory	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |	Charles O'Hara	Tory
Nov 1806	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |	Edward Synge Cooper	Tory
Dec 1822	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |			Henry King	Tory
Aug 1830	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |	Edward Joshua Cooper	Tory
May 1831	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |			Alexander Perceval
Jul 1841	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Irish Conservative Party/meta/color" |	William Richard Ormsby-Gore	Conservative
Sep 1841	style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |			John Ffolliott
Mar 1850	rowspan="6" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |			Sir Robert Gore Booth
Jul 1852	style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	Richard Swift
Apr 1857	style="background-color: Template:Irish Conservative Party/meta/color" |	Edward Joshua Cooper	Conservative
May 1859	style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	Charles William Cooper changed name to O'Hara, 1860
Jul 1865	style="background-color: Template:Irish Conservative Party/meta/color" |	Edward Henry Cooper	Conservative
Dec 1868	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Denis Maurice O'Conor	Liberal
Jan 1877	style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |			Edward Robert King-Harman
Apr 1880	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Irish Parliamentary Party/meta/color" |			Thomas Sexton	Irish Parliamentary
Aug 1883	style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	Nicholas Lynch
1885	constituency abolished: see North Sligo and South Sligo

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

General Election 1830: Sligo County (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	Edward Joshua Cooper	465	47.89
	Tory	Henry King	390	40.16
	Independent	Fitzstephen French	116	11.95
Turnout			971	N/A	N/A

References

• 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 "S" (part 3)