Mayo (UK Parliament constituency)

Mayo
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
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.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Mayo.

Members of Parliament

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1801, 1 January		Denis Browne			George Jackson
1802, 22 July					Henry Dillon-Lee
1814, 5 March					Dominick Browne
1818, 4 July		James Browne
1826, 24 June					Lord Bingham
1830, 14 August					Dominick Browne
1831, 19 May		John Denis Browne
1835, 24 January		Sir William Brabazon, Bt
1836, 6 May					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
1865, 19 July					Lord Bingham
1868, 23 November		George Henry Moore
1870, 12 May		George Ekins Browne
1874, 7 Feb[2]					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]						Irish Parliamentary Party
1885	Constituency divided: see East Mayo, North Mayo, South Mayo and West Mayo

Elections

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

General Election 1880: Mayo

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Home Rule	John O'Connor Power	1,645	N/A	N/A
	Home Rule	Charles Stewart Parnell	1,545	N/A	N/A
	Home Rule	Browne	628	N/A	N/A
	Home Rule gain from Other		Swing	N/A

Notes

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

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 – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 2)