Sligo County (UK Parliament constituency)

Sligo County
Sligo County
	Former County constituency; for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Number of members	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 Party
1801		Joshua Edward Cooper	Tory	Charles O'Hara	Tory
Nov 1806		Edward Synge Cooper	Tory[1]	Charles O'Hara	Tory
Dec 1822		Edward Synge Cooper	Tory[1]	Henry King	Whig[2]
Aug 1830		Edward Joshua Cooper	Tory[2][3]	Henry King	Whig[2]
May 1831			Tory[2][3]	Alexander Perceval	Tory[2][3]
Dec 1834			Conservative[2][3]		Conservative[2][3]
Jul 1841		William Ormsby-Gore	Conservative[2][3]		Conservative[2][3]
Sep 1841				John Ffolliott	Conservative[2][3]
Mar 1850				Sir Robert Gore-Booth	Conservative[3]
Jul 1852		Richard Swift	Ind. Irish[3]
Apr 1857		Edward Joshua Cooper	Conservative[3]
May 1859		Charles William Cooper changed name to O'Hara, 1860	Conservative[3]
Jul 1865		Edward Henry Cooper	Conservative[3]
Dec 1868		Denis Maurice O'Conor	Liberal[3]
Dec 1874			Home Rule League[3]
Jan 1877				Edward King-Harman	Home Rule[3]
Apr 1880				Thomas Sexton	[[Home Rule League]] [[Charles Stewart Parnell\|(Parnellite)]][3]
Oct 1882			Irish Parliamentary		Irish Parliamentary[3]
Aug 1883		Nicholas Lynch	Irish Parliamentary[3]		Irish Parliamentary[3]
1885	constituency abolished: see North Sligo and South Sligo

General election 1831: Sligo County (2 seats)[3][2][4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	Edward Joshua Cooper	361	43.0	+19.1
	Tory	Alexander Perceval	287	34.2	+10.3
	Whig	Henry King	191	22.8	−29.3
Majority			96	11.4	+3.7
Turnout			c. 420	c. 69.9	c. −14.4
Registered electors			600
	Tory hold		Swing	+16.9
	Tory gain from Whig		Swing	+12.5

Perceval was appointed a commissioner of the Treasury, causing a by-election.

By-election, 28 September 1841: Sligo County[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Ffolliott	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Ffolliott resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.

By-election, 12 March 1850: Sligo County[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Gore-Booth	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

General election 1852: Sligo County (2 seats)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Gore-Booth	943	35.9	*N/A*
	Independent Irish	Richard Swift	870	33.1	*New*
	Conservative	William Ormsby-Gore	774	29.5	N/A
	Whig	John Taaffe[5]	39	1.5	New
Turnout			1,313 (est)	62.4 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			2,105
Majority			73	2.8	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A
Majority			96	3.6	N/A
	Independent Irish gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A

General election 1857: Sligo County (2 seats)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Gore-Booth	1,471	45.2	+9.3
	Conservative	Edward Joshua Cooper	1,471	45.2	+15.7
	Whig	John Ball[6]	305	9.4	+7.9
	Independent Irish	Richard Swift	5	0.2	−32.9
Majority			1,166	35.9	+33.1
Turnout			1,776 (est)	74.3 (est)	+11.9
Registered electors			2,389
	Conservative hold		Swing	+12.9
	Conservative gain from Independent Irish		Swing	+16.1

General election 1868: Sligo County (2 seats)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Denis Maurice O'Conor	1,671	41.7	*New*
	Conservative	Robert Gore-Booth	1,208	30.1	*N/A*
	Conservative	Edward Henry Cooper	1,129	28.2	N/A
	Liberal	Cornelius Alexander Keogh	2	0.0	New
Turnout			2,840 (est)	87.8 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			3,233
Majority			463	11.6	N/A
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A
Majority			1,206	2.9	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Gore-Booth's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 12 Jan 1877: Sligo County (1 seat)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Home Rule	Edward King-Harman	Unopposed
Registered electors			3,414
	Home Rule gain from Conservative

General election 1880: Sligo County (2 seats)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Home Rule League (Parnellite)	Thomas Sexton	1,591	36.1	*N/A*
	Home Rule	Denis Maurice O'Conor	1,551	35.2	*N/A*
	Home Rule	Edward King-Harman	1,267	28.7	N/A
Majority			284	6.5	N/A
Turnout			2,205 (est)	67.7 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			3,256
	Home Rule gain from Conservative		Swing
	Home Rule hold		Swing

O'Conor's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 18 Aug 1883: Sligo County (2 seats)[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	Nicholas Lynch (MP)	1,545	61.1	*N/A*
	Conservative	Charles Kane O'Hara[7]	983	38.9	New
Majority			562	22.2	N/A
Turnout			2,528	79.6	+11.9
Registered electors			3,174
	Irish Parliamentary hold		Swing	N/A

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