| Cavan | |
|---|---|
| Former County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| 1801–1885 | |
| Number of members | Two |
| Replaced by | East Cavan and West Cavan |
Cavan was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which from 1801 to 1885 returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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This constituency comprised the whole of County Cavan.
From 1801 to 1885 County Cavan was one constituency with two Members of Parliament who both represented the whole of the county.
| Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1801 | Francis Saunderson | Tory | Nathaniel Sneyd | Tory | ||||
| 1802 | ||||||||
| 1806 | John Maxwell-Barry | Tory | ||||||
| 1807 | ||||||||
| 1812 | ||||||||
| 1818 | ||||||||
| 1820 | ||||||||
| 1824 | Henry Maxwell | Tory | ||||||
| 1826 | Alexander Saunderson | Tory | ||||||
| 1830 | ||||||||
| 1831 | Sir John Young, Bt. | Tory | ||||||
| 1832 | ||||||||
| 1835 | Conservative | Conservative | ||||||
| 1837 | ||||||||
| 1839 | Somerset Richard Maxwell | Conservative | ||||||
| 1840 | Henry John Clements | Conservative | ||||||
| 1841 | ||||||||
| 1841 | ||||||||
| 1843 | James Pierce Maxwell | Conservative | ||||||
| 1847 | Peelite | |||||||
| 1852 | ||||||||
| 1853 | Conservative | |||||||
| 1855 | Robert Burrowes | Conservative | ||||||
| 1857 | Hugh Annesley | Conservative | ||||||
| 1859 | ||||||||
| 1865 | Edward James Saunderson | Palmerstonian Liberal | ||||||
| 1868 | Conservative | |||||||
| 1874 | Charles Joseph Fay | Home Rule League | Joseph Gillis Biggar | Home Rule League | ||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1885 | constituency abolished: see Cavan East and Cavan West | |||||||
| 1 January 1801 (co-option) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| Francis Saunderson | Tory | nominated | |
| Nathaniel Sneyd | Tory | nominated | |
| 16 July 1802 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| Francis Saunderson | Tory | unopposed | |
| Nathaniel Sneyd | Tory | unopposed | |
| 17 November 1806 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| Nathaniel Sneyd | Tory | unopposed | |
| John Maxwell-Barry | Tory | unopposed | |
| 18 May 1807 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| Nathaniel Sneyd | Tory | unopposed | |
| John Maxwell-Barry | Tory | unopposed | |
| 21 October 1812 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| Nathaniel Sneyd | Tory | unopposed | |
| John Maxwell-Barry | Tory | unopposed | |
| 29 June 1818 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| Nathaniel Sneyd | Tory | unopposed | |
| John Maxwell-Barry | Tory | unopposed | |
| 18 March 1820 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| Nathaniel Sneyd | Tory | unopposed | |
| John Maxwell-Barry | Tory | unopposed | |
| 1824 (By-election) |
| John Maxwell-Barry, who had succeeded as 5th Baron Farnham on the 23 July 1823, was replaced by Henry Maxwell on the 24 February 1824. |
| 28 June 1826 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| Henry Maxwell | Tory | 2,854 - elected | |
| Alexander Saunderson | Tory | 2,673 - elected | |
| Robert Henry Southwell | 1,917 - defeated | ||
| Charles Coote | 1,901 - defeated | ||
| 12 August 1830 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| Henry Maxwell | Tory | 786 - elected | |
| Alexander Saunderson | Tory | 452 - elected | |
| Sir William Young, Bt. | 287 - defeated | ||
| 19 May 1831 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| Henry Maxwell | Tory | 664 - elected | |
| John Young | Tory | 614 - elected | |
| Robert Henry Southwell | 331 - defeated | ||
| 17 December 1832 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| Henry Maxwell | Tory | unopposed | |
| John Young | Tory | unopposed | |
| 14 January 1835 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| Henry Maxwell | Conservative | unopposed | |
| John Young | Conservative | unopposed | |
| 10 August 1837 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| Henry Maxwell | Conservative | unopposed | |
| John Young | Conservative | unopposed | |
| 1839 and 1840 (By-elections) |
| Henry Maxwell, who had succeeded as 7th Baron Farnham on the 19 October 1838, was replaced by Somerset Richard Maxwell on the 18 February 1839, however, he resigned the next year and was replaced by Henry John Clements on the 12 August 1840. |
| 1841 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| John Young | Conservative | unopposed | |
| Henry John Clements | Conservative | unopposed | |
| 1841 (By-election) |
| John Young was appointed on the 30 September 1841 as a Commissioner of the Treasury and resigned as M.P. for Cavan, but was re-elected later the same year. |
| 1843 (By-election) |
| Henry John Clements died on the 12 January 1843 and was replaced by James Pierce Maxwell on the 17 February 1843. |
| 9 August 1847 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| James Pierce Maxwell | Conservative | unopposed | |
| John Young* | Peelite | unopposed | |
| * He succeeded a baronetcy in 1848 and became Sir John Young, Bt. | |||
| 16 July 1852 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| James Pierce Maxwell | Conservative | 2,252 - elected | |
| Sir John Young, Bt. | Peelite | 2,049 - elected | |
| Hercules Ellis | Liberal | 727 - defeated | |
| 1853 (By-election) |
| Sir John Young was appointed in 1853 as Chief Secretary of Ireland and resigned as M.P. for Cavan, but was re-elected on the 10 January 1853, but this time for the Conservative Party. Two years later a by-election was created when Sir John Young resigned as M.P. for the last time and took up the appointment as Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands. |
| 1855 (By-election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| Robert Burrowes | Conservative | 2,163 - elected | |
| Henry George Hughes, Q.C. | Liberal | 1,866 - defeated | |
| 13 April 1857 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| James Pierce Maxwell | Conservative | 3,164 - elected | |
| Hugh Annesley | Conservative | 2,164 - elected | |
| Matthew O'Reilly Dease | Liberal | 1,409 - defeated | |
| 9 May 1859 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| James Pierce Maxwell | Conservative | unopposed | |
| Hugh Annesley | Conservative | unopposed | |
| 1865 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| Hugh Annesley | Conservative | unopposed | |
| Edward James Saunderson | Palmerstonian Liberal | unopposed | |
| 23 November 1868 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| Hugh Annesley | Conservative | unopposed | |
| Edward James Saunderson | Conservative | unopposed | |
| 1874 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| Charles Joseph Fay | Home Rule League | elected | |
| Joseph Gillis Biggar | Home Rule League | elected | |
| Edward James Saunderson | Conservative | defeated | |
| 9 April 1880 (General election) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | |
| Charles Joseph Fay | Home Rule League | 3,097 - elected | |
| Joseph Gillis Biggar | Home Rule League | 3,061 - elected | |
| Somerset Henry Maxwell | Conservative | 2,233 - defeated | |
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