UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland, 1801–1885
Downpatrick 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.
This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Downpatrick in County Down.
Members of Parliament
[edit] Election | Member | Party | Note |
| 1801, January 1 | Clotworthy Rowley | | 1801: Co-opted. Appointed Commissioner of Compensation. |
| 1801, March 10 | Samuel Campbell Rowley | | |
| 1802, July 17 | Charles Stewart Hawthorne | | |
| 1806, November 18 | Edward Southwell Ruthven | Whig[1] | 1 |
| 1807, May 22 | John Wilson Croker | Tory[1] | 1 |
| 1812, October 20 | Charles Stewart Hawthorne | Whig[1] | Appointed a Commissioner of Excise in Ireland |
| 1815, March 9 | Viscount Glerawley | Tory[1] | |
1818, August 4 |
| 1820, March 28 | John Waring Maxwell | Tory[1] | |
1826, July 25 |
| 1830, August 7 | Edward Southwell Ruthven | Whig[1] | |
1831, June 14 |
| 1832, December 13 | John Waring Maxwell | Tory[1] | |
| 1834, December | Conservative[1] |
| 1835, January 9 | David Ker | Conservative[1] | |
1837, July/August |
| 1841, July 2 | David Stewart Ker | Conservative[1] | |
| 1847, August 4 | Richard Ker | Peelite | Resigned |
| 1851, August 8 | Hon. Charles Hardinge | Conservative | Became the 2nd Viscount Hardinge, 24 September 1856 |
1852, July |
| 1857, February 12 | Richard Ker | Peelite 3 | |
1857, March/April |
| 1859, May 3 | David Stewart Ker | Conservative | |
1865, July | Resigned |
| 1867, August 5 | William Keown | Conservative | |
1868, Nov/Dec |
| 1874, February 2 | John Mulholland | Conservative | Last MP for the constituency |
1885 | Constituency abolished |
Supplemental notes
- Stooks Smith suggests that after the 1806 election there was a petition, which led to Edward Southwell Ruthven (Whig) being unseated and John Wilson Croker {Tory} being declared duly elected. Walker does not make any reference to such a petition.
- Walker (like F. W. S. Craig in his compilations of election results for Great Britain) classifies Tory candidates as Conservatives from 1832. The name Conservative was gradually adopted as a description for the Tories. The party is deemed to be named Conservative from the 1835 general election.
- Walker (like F. W. S. Craig in his compilations of election results for Great Britain) classifies Whig, Radical and similar candidates as Liberals from 1832. The name Liberal was gradually adopted as a description for the Whigs and politicians allied with them, before the formal creation of the Liberal Party shortly after the 1859 general election.
Elections in the 1830s
[edit] Elections in the 1840s
[edit] Elections in the 1850s
[edit] Ker resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.
Hardinge succeeded to the peerage, becoming 2nd Viscount Hardinge and causing a by-election.
Elections in the 1860s
[edit] Ker resigned, causing a by-election.
Elections in the 1870s
[edit] Elections in the 1880s
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