Fermanagh (UK Parliament constituency)

Fermanagh
Fermanagh
	Former County constituency; for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Replaced by	North Fermanagh and South Fermanagh

Fermanagh was a UK Parliament constituency in Northern Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Fermanagh, except for the Borough of Enniskillen.

Election	1st Member		1st Party		2nd Party	Note
1801, January 1		Mervyn Archdall	Tory	Viscount Cole		1801: Co-opted
1802, July 19		Mervyn Archdall	Tory[1]	Viscount Cole
1803, June 27				Hon. Lowry Cole[2]		Viscount Cole entered the House of Lords as Baron Grinstead.
1823, March 8				Viscount Corry	Tory[1]	Cole appointed Governor of Mauritius.
1831, May 16				Viscount Cole	Tory[1]
1834, June 27		Mervyn Edward Archdale	Tory[1]		Tory[1]	Archdall resigned.
1834, December			Conservative[1]		Conservative[1]
1840, 30 April				Sir Arthur Brooke	Conservative[1]	Viscount Cole entered the House of Lords as Baron Grinstead.
1854, 29 December				Hon. Henry Cole	Conservative	Death of Brooke.
1874, 16 February		William Humphrys Archdale	Conservative	Hon. Henry Cole	Conservative
1880, April 13		William Humphrys Archdale	Conservative	Viscount Crichton	Conservative	Last MPs for the constituency
1885	Constituency abolished

General election 1830: Fermanagh[3][1][4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Tory	Mervyn Archdall	685	34.4
	Tory	Armar Lowry-Corry	563	28.3
	Whig	Sir Henry Brooke, 1st Baronet of Colebrooke	467	23.4
	Whig	Thomas Brooke	277	13.9
Majority			96	4.9
Turnout			1,015	98.4
Registered electors			1,032
	Tory hold
	Tory hold

Archdall resigned, causing a by-election.

By-election, 27 June 1834: Fermanagh[3][1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Tory	Mervyn Edward Archdale	Unopposed
	Tory hold

Cole succeeded to the peerage, becoming 3rd Earl of Enniskillen and causing a by-election.

By-election, 30 April 1840: Fermanagh[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arthur Brooke	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Brooke's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 29 December 1854: Fermanagh[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Cole	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

General election 1874: Fermanagh[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Cole	2,285	32.0	*N/A*
	Conservative	William Humphrys Archdale	2,205	30.9	*N/A*
	Liberal	John Grey Vesey Porter	1,546	21.6	New
	Liberal	Charles Robert Barton	1,111	15.5	New
Majority			659	9.3	N/A
Turnout			3,574 (est)	75.2 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			4,752
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General election 1880: Fermanagh[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Humphrys Archdale	2,479	36.7	+5.8
	Conservative	Viscount Crichton	2,443	36.2	+4.2
	Liberal	John Grey Vesey Porter	1,835	27.2	−9.9
Majority			608	9.0	−0.3
Turnout			4,314 (est)	90.3 (est)	+15.1
Registered electors			4,778
	Conservative hold		Swing	+5.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	+4.3

Stooks Smith, Henry (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections: Containing the Uncontested Elections Since 1830. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. pp. 227–228. Retrieved 15 May 2020 – via Google Books.
Knighted in 1813.
Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.
Farrell, Stephen. "Co. Fermanagh". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 15 May 2020.

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 "F"

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