Mayo (UK Parliament constituency)

Mayo
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1801 (1801)–1885 (1885)
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	East Mayo, North Mayo, South Mayo and West Mayo

Mayo was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885.

History

The constituency was created at the Act of Union 1800, replacing the earlier Mayo constituency in the pre-union Parliament of Ireland. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 it was divided into four new single-seat constituencies: see East Mayo, North Mayo, South Mayo and West Mayo.

This constituency comprised the whole of County Mayo.

Year	1st Member		1st Party		2nd Party
1801, 1 January		Denis Browne		George Jackson
1802, 22 July				Henry Dillon-Lee, later Viscount Dillon
1814, 5 March				Dominick Browne, later Baron Oranmore
1818, 4 July		James Browne		Dominick Browne, later Baron Oranmore
1826, 24 June				George Lucan, Baron Bingham, later Earl of Lucan
1830, 14 August				Dominick Browne, later Baron Oranmore
1831, 19 May		John Denis Browne
1835, 24 January		Sir William Brabazon, Bt.
1836, 6 May		Sir William Brabazon, Bt.		Robert Dillon Browne
1840, 16 December		Mark Blake
1846, 2 March		Joseph Myles McDonnell
1847, 14 August		George Henry Moore^[1]
1850, 29 July				George Gore Ousley Higgins
1857, 10 April			Independent Irish	Roger Palmer	Conservative
1857, 30 December		Lord John Browne, later Marquess of Sligo		Roger Palmer	Conservative
1865, 19 July		Lord John Browne, later Marquess of Sligo		Charles Bingham, Lord Bingham, later Earl of Lucan
1868, 23 November		George Henry Moore
1870, 12 May		George Ekins Browne
1874, 7 Feb^[2]		George Ekins Browne		Thomas Tighe
1874, 1 June		George Ekins Browne		John O'Connor Power	Home Rule League
1880, 15 April		Charles Stewart Parnell^[3]	Home Rule League
1880, 26 May		Isaac Nelson
1882^[4]		Isaac Nelson			Irish Parliamentary Party
1885	Constituency divided: see East Mayo, North Mayo, South Mayo and West Mayo

The elections in this constituency took place using the first past the post electoral system.

^ Following the general election in Apr 1857, the election of George Henry Moore was declared void on 14 Jul 1857. The writ was suspended until Dec 1857
^ Following the general election in Feb 1874, the election of the two sitting members (Browne and Tighe) was declared void on 7 May 1874
^ Parnell was also returned for both Meath and Cork. He chose to sit for Cork
^ There was no election in 1882, but in that year the Home Rule League was renamed as the Irish Parliamentary Party

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 "M" (part 2)

Parliamentary constituencies in County Mayo

Parliament of Ireland to 1800	Castlebar (1614–1800) · Mayo (????–1800)

Westminster 1801–1922 and First Dáil 1918	Mayo (1801–1885) · East Mayo (1885–1922) · North Mayo (1885–1922) · South Mayo (1885–1922) · West Mayo (1885–1922)

Dáil Éireann 1918–present	Mayo North and West (1921–1923) · Mayo South–Roscommon South (1921–1923) · Sligo–Mayo East (1921–1923) · Mayo North (1923–1969) · Mayo South (1923–1969) · Mayo East (1969–1997) · Mayo West (1969–1997) · Mayo (1997– )

European Parliament 1979–present	Connacht–Ulster (1979–2004) · North-West (2004– )

Irish counties: Carlow · Cavan · Clare · Cork · Donegal · Dublin · Galway · Kerry · Kildare · Kilkenny · Laois · Leitrim · Limerick · Longford · Louth · Mayo · Meath · Monaghan · Offaly · Roscommon · Sligo · Tipperary · Waterford · Westmeath · Wexford · Wicklow