Mallow (UK Parliament constituency)

Mallow was a United Kingdom Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801. The constituency lasted until 1885 when it was absorbed into the North East Cork constituency.

Mallow
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	County Cork
Borough	Mallow
1801–1885
Seats	1
Created from	Mallow (IHC)
Replaced by	North East Cork

Prior to the Union, the Mallow constituency had been represented in the Parliament of Ireland.

Boundaries

This constituency was a parliamentary borough based on the town of Mallow in County Cork. From the 1801 union until 1832, the boundaries and franchise were the same as in the previous Parliament of Ireland constituency, namely all freeholders within the manor of Mallow. The manor comprised the portion of the civil parish of Mallow north of the River Blackwater, as well as three townlands south of the Blackwater – namely Lower (or North) Quartertown, Upper (or South) Quartertown, and Gortnagraiga – which constituted the portion of the civil parish of Mourne Abbey within the barony of Fermoy.^[1][2] For all Irish borough constituencies, the Representation of the People (Ireland) Act 1832 changed the franchise and the ancillary Parliamentary Boundaries (Ireland) Act 1832 defined new boundaries, in most cases accepting the recommendations of a committee appointed the previous year.^[1] Mallow was one such case, despite protests from the gentry who would be disenfranchised.^[3][4] The new boundary was:^[1][5]

From the Easternmost Gate Post (opposite the Park Wall of Mr. [Richard Harris-^[6]]Purcell) of a Field on the Kanturk Road, the Entrance to which is distant about One hundred and seventy-six Yards (measured along the Kanturk Road) from the Seneschal's House, in a straight Line to the Gate Post nearest the Turnpike in a Wall on the Southern Side of the old Road which runs a little to the North of the Limerick Road, and which Post is distant about Two hundred and forty-two Yards (measured along the said old Road) to the North-west of the Turnpike; thence in a straight Line to the Point at which a Bye Lane joins the Fair-lane Road, about One hundred and fifty Yards to the North of the Entrance to the Lime and Salt Works; thence in a straight Line to the Point at which the Carrigoon Road, which passes under Mr. [Denham] Jephson's Park Wall,^[7] is met by a Fence which divides a Field occupied by Mr. Lynch from a Field occupied by Mr. Carmichael, and which Point is also about Three hundred and seventy-five Yards to the North of a small Door in the Park Wall; thence in a straight Line across the Park to the Westernmost Point at which the Boundary of Mr. [Robert^[8]] Delacour's Pleasure Grounds meets the Fermoy Road; thence, Westward, along the Boundary of Mr. Delacour's Pleasure Grounds to the Southernmost Point at which the same meets the Boundary of the Garden attached to the Water Mill; thence in a straight Line to a Point in the old Cork Road which is distant Two hundred and twenty-five Yards (measured along the old Cork Road) to the South of the old Turnpike thereon; thence in a straight Line to a Point on the new Cork Road which is distant about Two hundred and ninety Yards (measured along the new Cork Road) to the South of the said old Turnpike, and which Point is at the Commencement of a Nursery Ground; thence in a straight Line in the Direction of the Eastern Corner of Captain Davis's House to the Point at which such straight Line cuts the Blackwater River; thence in a straight Line to the Gate Post first described.

This excluded a large rural hinterland but included the Ballydaheen suburb immediately south of the Blackwater.^[2] The new boundary appears on the Ordnance Survey of Ireland's 1878 town plan of Mallow.^[9]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[10]	Party	Note
	1801, 1 January	John Longfield		1801: Co-opted
	1802, 13 July	Denham Jephson	Whig
	1812, 16 October	Sir James Cotter, Bt
	1818, 27 June	William Becher	Whig[11]
	1826, 16 June	Denham Jephson	Whig[11][12][13]	First term
	1832, 16 June	William Daunt	Repeal Association[11]	Unseated on petition
	1833, 24 April	Denham Jephson	Whig[11][12][13]	Declared elected. Second term (new surname 1838).
	1859, 6 May	Robert Longfield	Conservative[14]
	1865, 13 July	Rt Hon. Edward Sullivan	Liberal[14]	Appointed Master of the Rolls in Ireland
	1870, 3 February	Henry Munster	Liberal[14]	Unseated on petition and new writ issued
	1870, 10 May	George Waters	Liberal[14]	Appointed chairman, County Waterford Quarter Sessions
	1872, 7 June	William Felix Munster	Liberal[14]
	1874, 4 February	John George MacCarthy	Home Rule League[14]
	1880, 2 April	Rt Hon. William Moore Johnson	Liberal[14]	Appointed a Judge of the High Court in Ireland
	1883, 24 January	William O'Brien	Home Rule League	Last MP for the constituency
1885		Constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1830: Mallow ^[14][11][15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	Denham Jephson	Unopposed
	Whig hold

General election 1831: Mallow ^[14][11][15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	Denham Jephson	Unopposed
Registered electors			560
	Whig hold

General election 1832: Mallow ^[14][11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Irish Repeal	William Joseph O'Neill Daunt	225	51.1
	Whig	Denham Jephson	215	48.9
Majority			10	2.2
Turnout			440	96.1
Registered electors			458
	Irish Repeal gain from Whig

• On petition, 11 votes were struck off of Daunt's total and Jephson was declared elected.^[11]

General election 1835: Mallow ^[14][11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	Denham Jephson	Unopposed
Registered electors			474
	Whig gain from Irish Repeal

General election 1837: Mallow ^[14][11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	Denham Jephson-Norreys	Unopposed
Registered electors			564
	Whig hold

Elections in the 1840s

General election 1841: Mallow ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Denham Jephson-Norreys	111	68.1	N/A
	Conservative	Richard Longfield	52	31.9	New
Majority			59	36.2	N/A
Turnout			163	48.5	N/A
Registered electors			336
	Whig hold		Swing	N/A

General election 1847: Mallow ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Denham Jephson-Norreys	75	55.6	−12.5
	Conservative	David Ross	60	44.4	+12.5
Majority			15	11.2	−25.0
Turnout			135	35.1	−13.4
Registered electors			385
	Whig hold		Swing	−12.5

Elections in the 1850s

General election 1852: Mallow ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Denham Jephson-Norreys	59	57.3	+1.7
	Conservative	Charles Stannard Eustace	44	42.7	−1.7
Majority			15	14.6	+3.4
Turnout			103	72.0	+36.9
Registered electors			143
	Whig hold		Swing	+1.7

General election 1857: Mallow ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Denham Jephson-Norreys	Unopposed
Registered electors			164
	Whig hold

General election 1859: Mallow ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Longfield	68	55.3	New
	Liberal	Denham Jephson-Norreys	55	44.7	N/A
Majority			13	10.6	N/A
Turnout			123	81.5	N/A
Registered electors			151
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1860s

General election 1865: Mallow ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edward Sullivan	Unopposed
Registered electors			171
	Liberal gain from Conservative

General election 1868: Mallow ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edward Sullivan	Unopposed
Registered electors			208
	Liberal hold

Sullivan was appointed Attorney-General for Ireland, requiring a by-election.

By-election, 4 January 1869: Mallow ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edward Sullivan	Unopposed
Registered electors			208
	Liberal hold

Elections in the 1870s

Sullivan was appointed Master of the Rolls in Ireland, causing a by-election.

By-election, 3 Feb 1870: Mallow ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Munster	91	52.3	N/A
	Conservative	Lawrence E. Knox	83	47.7	New
Majority			8	4.6	N/A
Turnout			174	83.7	N/A
Registered electors			208
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

Knox stated his intention to petition the return on the basis of bribery and intimidation of the electorate.^[16] The petition was successful and a by-election was called.

By-election, 10 May 1870: Mallow ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Waters	93	52.2	−0.1
	Home Rule	Lawrence E. Knox	85	47.8	N/A
Majority			8	4.4	−0.2
Turnout			178	85.6	+1.9
Registered electors			208
	Liberal hold		Swing

Waters was appointment Chairman of Quarter Sessions of County Waterford.

By-election, 7 June 1872: Mallow ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Felix Munster	91	53.8	+1.6
	Home Rule	John George MacCarthy	78	46.2	−1.6
Majority			13	7.6	+3.2
Turnout			169	74.1	N/A
Registered electors			228
	Liberal hold		Swing

General election 1874: Mallow ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Home Rule	John George MacCarthy	86	39.8	N/A
	Liberal	William Moore Johnson	64	29.6	N/A
	Conservative	Kilner Arthur Augustus Brazier-Creagh	57	26.4	N/A
	Home Rule	David Augustus Nagle	9	4.2	N/A
Majority			22	10.2	N/A
Turnout			216	86.4	N/A
Registered electors			250
	Home Rule gain from Liberal		Swing

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1880: Mallow ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Moore Johnson	189	72.4	+42.8
	Conservative	Robert Webb	72	27.6	+1.2
Majority			117	44.8	N/A
Turnout			261	89.1	+2.7
Registered electors			293
	Liberal gain from Home Rule		Swing	N/A

Johnson was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland, requiring a by-election.

By-election, 17 May 1880: Mallow ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Moore Johnson	201	79.4	+7.0
	Home Rule	Richard Wood Kelly	52	20.6	New
Majority			149	58.8	+14.0
Turnout			253	86.3	−2.8
Registered electors			293
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

Johnson was appointed a judge and resigned, causing a by-election.

By-election, 24 Jan 1883: Mallow ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	William O'Brien	161	64.4	N/A
	Liberal	John Naish	89	35.6	−36.8
Majority			72	28.8	N/A
Turnout			250	87.1	−2.0
Registered electors			287
	Irish Parliamentary gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A

References

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