Sligo County (UK Parliament constituency)

Sligo County
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	North Sligo and South Sligo

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.

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.

Members of Parliament

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1801		Joshua Edward Cooper	Tory		Charles O'Hara	Tory
Nov 1806		Edward Synge Cooper	Tory
Dec 1822					Henry King	Tory
Aug 1830		Edward Joshua Cooper	Tory
May 1831					Alexander Perceval
Jul 1841		William Richard Ormsby-Gore	Conservative
Sep 1841					John Ffolliott
Mar 1850					Sir Robert Gore Booth
Jul 1852		Richard Swift
Apr 1857		Edward Joshua Cooper	Conservative
May 1859		Charles William Cooper changed name to O'Hara, 1860
Jul 1865		Edward Henry Cooper	Conservative
Dec 1868		Denis Maurice O'Conor	Liberal
Jan 1877					Edward Robert King-Harman
Apr 1880					Thomas Sexton	Irish Parliamentary
Aug 1883		Nicholas Lynch
1885	constituency abolished: see North Sligo and South Sligo

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

General Election 1830: Sligo County (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Tory	Edward Joshua Cooper	465	47.89
	Tory	Henry King	390	40.16
	Independent	Fitzstephen French	116	11.95
Turnout			971	N/A	N/A

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 "S" (part 3)