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Newry (UK Parliament constituency)

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Newry
Former borough constituency
for the House of Commons
CountyCounty Down
BoroughNewry
18011918
Seats1
Created fromNewry (IHC)
Replaced bySouth Down

Newry 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

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This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Newry in County Down.

Members of Parliament

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Election Member Party Note
1801, January 1 John Moore 1801: Co-opted
1802, July 13 Rt Hon. Isaac Corry Whig
1806, November 15 Hon. Francis Needham (1) Tory[1] Became the 12th Viscount Kilmorey 1818
1819, March 6 Hon. Francis Needham (2) Tory Styled Viscount Newry 12 January 1822
1826, June 14 Hon. John Henry Knox Tory[1]
1832, December 27 Lord Marcus Hill Tory[1][2]
1834, December 18 Conservative[1][2]
1835, January 21 Denis Caulfield Brady Whig[1]
1837, August 4 John Ellis Conservative[1][2]
1841, July 8 Francis Needham (3) Conservative[1][2] Re-elected as a Peelite candidate
1847, August 2 Peelite[2] Died 6 May 1851
1851, May 30 Edmund Gilling Hallewell Conservative[2]
1852, July 19 William Kirk Whig[3]
1859, May 5 Peter Quinn Conservative[2]
1865, July 15 Arthur Charles Innes Conservative[2]
1868, November 18 William Kirk Liberal[2] Died 20 December 1870
1871, January 23 Francis Needham (4) Conservative[2]
1874, February 3 William Whitworth Liberal[2]
1880, April 3 Henry Thomson Conservative[2]
1885, November 24 Justin Huntly McCarthy Irish Parliamentary[2]
1892, July 7 Patrick Carvill Irish National Federation[2] Re-elected as an Irish Parliamentary Party candidate
1900, October 1 Irish Parliamentary[2]
1906, January 17 John Joseph Mooney Irish Parliamentary[2] Last MP for the constituency
1918 Constituency abolished

Elections

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Elections in the 1830s

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General election 1830: Newry[2][1][4]
Party Candidate Votes %
Tory John Henry Knox Unopposed
Registered electors c. 600
Tory hold
General election 1831: Newry[2][1][4]
Party Candidate Votes %
Tory John Henry Knox 333 60.1
Whig Denis Maguire 221 39.9
Majority 112 20.2
Turnout 554 c. 92.3
Registered electors c. 600
Tory hold
General election 1832: Newry[2][1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Tory Marcus Hill 494 51.0 −9.1
Whig Denis Maguire 475 49.0 +9.1
Majority 19 2.0 −18.2
Turnout 969 95.3 c. +3.0
Registered electors 1,017
Tory hold Swing −9.1
General election 1835: Newry[2][1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Denis Caulfield Brady 402 51.8 +2.8
Conservative Sir Thomas Staples, 9th Baronet 374 48.2 −2.8
Majority 28 3.6 N/A
Turnout 776 68.4 −26.9
Registered electors 1,134
Whig gain from Conservative Swing +2.8
General election 1837: Newry[2][1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Ellis 338 52.6 +4.4
Whig Denis Caulfield Brady 305 47.4 −4.4
Majority 33 5.2 N/A
Turnout 643 44.7 −23.7
Registered electors 1,439
Conservative gain from Whig Swing +4.4

Elections in the 1840s

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General election 1841: Newry[2][1][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish Conservative Francis Needham 319 57.3 +4.7
Whig John Milley Doyle 237 42.5 −4.9
Whig Peter Kenny 1 0.2 N/A
Majority 82 14.8 +9.6
Turnout 557 89.4 +44.7
Registered electors 623
Conservative hold Swing +4.8
General election 1847: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Peelite Francis Needham Unopposed
Registered electors 1,135
Peelite gain from Conservative

Elections in the 1850s

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Needham's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 30 May 1851: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish Conservative Edmund Gilling Hallewell Unopposed
Irish Conservative gain from Peelite
General election 1852: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig William Kirk 233 53.3 New
Irish Conservative Edmund Gilling Hallewell 204 46.7 N/A
Majority 29 6.6 N/A
Turnout 437 84.5 N/A
Registered electors 517
Whig gain from Peelite Swing N/A
General election 1857: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig William Kirk 246 51.5 −1.8
Irish Conservative Henry Waring 232 48.5 +1.8
Majority 14 3.0 −3.6
Turnout 478 90.7 +6.2
Registered electors 527
Whig hold Swing −1.8
General election 1859: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish Conservative Peter Quinn 250 55.7 +7.2
Liberal Frederick William McBlain 197 43.9 N/A
Liberal William Kirk 2 0.4 −51.1
Majority 53 11.8 N/A
Turnout 449 84.9 −5.8
Registered electors 529
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +29.2

Elections in the 1860s

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General election 1865: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish Conservative Arthur Charles Innes 267 53.2 −2.5
Liberal William Miller Kirk 235 46.8 +2.9
Majority 32 6.4 −5.4
Turnout 502 93.1 +8.2
Registered electors 539
Irish Conservative hold Swing −2.7
General election 1868: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal William Kirk 387 50.5 +3.7
Irish Conservative Francis Needham 379 49.5 −3.7
Majority 8 1.0 N/A
Turnout 766 96.2 +3.1
Registered electors 796
Liberal gain from Irish Conservative Swing +3.7

Elections in the 1870s

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Kirk's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 23 Jan 1871: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish Conservative Francis Needham Unopposed
Registered electors 901
Irish Conservative gain from Liberal
General election 1874: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal William Whitworth 459 50.2 −0.3
Irish Conservative Francis Needham 455 49.8 +0.3
Majority 4 0.4 −0.6
Turnout 914 92.3 −3.9
Registered electors 990
Liberal hold Swing −0.3

Elections in the 1880s

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General election 1880: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish Conservative Henry Thomson 587 51.3 +1.5
Liberal Patrick Carvill 557 48.7 −1.5
Majority 30 2.6 N/A
Turnout 1,144 95.3 +3.0
Registered electors 1,201
Irish Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +1.5
1885 general election: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish Parliamentary Justin Huntly McCarthy Unopposed
Registered electors 2,163
Irish Parliamentary gain from Irish Conservative
1886 general election: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish Parliamentary Justin Huntly McCarthy 1,183 62.3 N/A
Liberal Unionist Reginald Cantley Saunders 716 37.7 New
Majority 467 24.6 N/A
Turnout 1,899 87.8 N/A
Registered electors 2,163
Irish Parliamentary hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1890s

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1892 general election: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish National Federation Patrick Carvill 907 53.2 N/A
Irish Unionist Henry Thomson 744 43.6 +5.9
Irish National League Robert Johnston 54 3.2 N/A
Majority 163 9.6 N/A
Turnout 1,705 92.3 +4.5
Registered electors 1,847
Irish National Federation gain from Irish Parliamentary Swing N/A
1895 general election: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish National Federation Patrick Carvill 973 60.8 +7.6
Irish Unionist Henry Thomson 628 39.2 −4.4
Majority 345 21.6 +12.0
Turnout 1,601 85.5 −6.8
Registered electors 1,872
Irish National Federation hold Swing +6.0

Elections in the 1900s

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1900 general election: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish Parliamentary Patrick Carvill Unopposed
Registered electors 1,789
Irish Parliamentary hold
1906 general election: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish Parliamentary John Joseph Mooney 802 52.1 N/A
Ind. Nationalist Patrick Carvill 736 47.9 New
Majority 66 4.2 N/A
Turnout 1,538 80.7 N/A
Registered electors 1,905
Irish Parliamentary hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1910s

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January 1910 general election: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish Parliamentary John Joseph Mooney 1,079 66.6 +14.5
Irish Unionist John Cusack 542 33.4 New
Majority 537 33.2 +29.0
Turnout 1,621 80.2 −0.5
Registered electors 2,021
Irish Parliamentary hold Swing N/A
December 1910 general election: Newry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish Parliamentary John Joseph Mooney Unopposed
Registered electors 2,021
Irish Parliamentary hold

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. p. 237. Retrieved 6 October 2018 – via Google Books.
  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 ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 234, 307, 370. ISBN 0901714127.
  3. ^ Bew, Paul; Wright, Frank (1983). "The Agrarian Opposition in Ulster Politics, 1848–87". In Clark, Samuel; Donnelly Jr., James S. (eds.). Irish Peasants: Violence and Political Unrest 1780–1914. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press. p. 199. ISBN 0-299-09370-0. Retrieved 7 October 2018 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ a b "Newry". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  5. ^ Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, Volume 50. 1843. Retrieved 25 August 2019 – via Google Books.