Sligo County (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Sligo County County constituency |
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| Created: | 1801 |
| Abolished: | 1885 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | Two |
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.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
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| 1801 | Joshua Edward Cooper | Charles O'Hara | ||||
| Nov 1806 | Edward Synge Cooper | |||||
| Dec 1822 | Henry King | |||||
| Aug 1830 | Edward Joshua Cooper | |||||
| May 1831 | Alexander Perceval | |||||
| Jul 1841 | William Richard Ormsby-Gore | |||||
| Sep 1841 | John Ffolliott | |||||
| Mar 1850 | Sir Robert Gore Booth | |||||
| Jul 1852 | Richard Swift | |||||
| Apr 1857 | Edward Joshua Cooper | |||||
| May 1859 | Charles William Cooper | |||||
| Jul 1865 | Edward Henry Cooper | |||||
| Dec 1868 | Denis Maurice O'Conor | |||||
| Jan 1877 | Edward Robert King-Harman | |||||
| Apr 1880 | Thomas Sexton | |||||
| Aug 1883 | Nicholas Lynch | |||||
| 1885 | constituency abolished: see North Sligo and South Sligo | |||||
[edit] Elections
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[edit] 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.
