Newry (UK Parliament constituency)

Newry 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.

Newry
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	County Down
Borough	Newry
1801–1918
Seats	1
Created from	Newry (IHC)
Replaced by	South Down

Boundaries

This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Newry in County Down.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1801, January 1	John Moore		1801: Co-opted
	1802, July 13	Rt Hon. Isaac Corry	Whig
	1806, November 15	Hon. Francis Needham (1)	Tory[1]	Became the 12th Viscount Kilmorey 1818
	1819, March 6	Hon. Francis Needham (2)	Tory	Styled Viscount Newry 12 January 1822
	1826, June 14	Hon. John Henry Knox	Tory[1]
	1832, December 27	Lord Marcus Hill	Tory[1][2]
	1834, December 18		Conservative[1][2]
	1835, January 21	Denis Caulfield Brady	Whig[1]
	1837, August 4	John Ellis	Conservative[1][2]
	1841, July 8	Francis Needham (3)	Conservative[1][2]	Re-elected as a Peelite candidate
	1847, August 2		Peelite[2]	Died 6 May 1851
	1851, May 30	Edmund Gilling Hallewell	Conservative[2]
	1852, July 19	William Kirk	Whig[3]
	1859, May 5	Peter Quinn	Conservative[2]
	1865, July 15	Arthur Charles Innes	Conservative[2]
	1868, November 18	William Kirk	Liberal[2]	Died 20 December 1870
	1871, January 23	Francis Needham (4)	Conservative[2]
	1874, February 3	William Whitworth	Liberal[2]
	1880, April 3	Henry Thomson	Conservative[2]
	1885, November 24	Justin Huntly McCarthy	Irish Parliamentary[2]
	1892, July 7	Patrick Carvill	Irish National Federation[2]	Re-elected as an Irish Parliamentary Party candidate
	1900, October 1		Irish Parliamentary[2]
	1906, January 17	John Joseph Mooney	Irish Parliamentary[2]	Last MP for the constituency
1918		Constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1830: Newry^[2][1][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Tory	John Henry Knox	Unopposed
Registered electors			c. 600
	Tory hold

General election 1831: Newry^[2][1][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Tory	John Henry Knox	333	60.1
	Whig	Denis Maguire	221	39.9
Majority			112	20.2
Turnout			554	c. 92.3
Registered electors			c. 600
	Tory hold

General election 1832: Newry^[2][1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	Marcus Hill	494	51.0	−9.1
	Whig	Denis Maguire	475	49.0	+9.1
Majority			19	2.0	−18.2
Turnout			969	95.3	c. +3.0
Registered electors			1,017
	Tory hold		Swing	−9.1

General election 1835: Newry^[2][1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Denis Caulfield Brady	402	51.8	+2.8
	Conservative	Sir Thomas Staples, 9th Baronet	374	48.2	−2.8
Majority			28	3.6	N/A
Turnout			776	68.4	−26.9
Registered electors			1,134
	Whig gain from Conservative		Swing	+2.8

General election 1837: Newry^[2][1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Ellis	338	52.6	+4.4
	Whig	Denis Caulfield Brady	305	47.4	−4.4
Majority			33	5.2	N/A
Turnout			643	44.7	−23.7
Registered electors			1,439
	Conservative gain from Whig		Swing	+4.4

Elections in the 1840s

General election 1841: Newry^[2][1][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Conservative	Francis Needham	319	57.3	+4.7
	Whig	John Milley Doyle	237	42.5	−4.9
	Whig	Peter Kenny	1	0.2	N/A
Majority			82	14.8	+9.6
Turnout			557	89.4	+44.7
Registered electors			623
	Conservative hold		Swing	+4.8

General election 1847: Newry^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Peelite	Francis Needham	Unopposed
Registered electors			1,135
	Peelite gain from Conservative

Elections in the 1850s

Needham's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 30 May 1851: Newry^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Conservative	Edmund Gilling Hallewell	Unopposed
	Irish Conservative gain from Peelite

General election 1852: Newry^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	William Kirk	233	53.3	New
	Irish Conservative	Edmund Gilling Hallewell	204	46.7	N/A
Majority			29	6.6	N/A
Turnout			437	84.5	N/A
Registered electors			517
	Whig gain from Peelite		Swing	N/A

General election 1857: Newry^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	William Kirk	246	51.5	−1.8
	Irish Conservative	Henry Waring	232	48.5	+1.8
Majority			14	3.0	−3.6
Turnout			478	90.7	+6.2
Registered electors			527
	Whig hold		Swing	−1.8

General election 1859: Newry^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Conservative	Peter Quinn	250	55.7	+7.2
	Liberal	Frederick William McBlain	197	43.9	N/A
	Liberal	William Kirk	2	0.4	−51.1
Majority			53	11.8	N/A
Turnout			449	84.9	−5.8
Registered electors			529
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+29.2

Elections in the 1860s

General election 1865: Newry^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Conservative	Arthur Charles Innes	267	53.2	−2.5
	Liberal	William Miller Kirk	235	46.8	+2.9
Majority			32	6.4	−5.4
Turnout			502	93.1	+8.2
Registered electors			539
	Irish Conservative hold		Swing	−2.7

General election 1868: Newry^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Kirk	387	50.5	+3.7
	Irish Conservative	Francis Needham	379	49.5	−3.7
Majority			8	1.0	N/A
Turnout			766	96.2	+3.1
Registered electors			796
	Liberal gain from Irish Conservative		Swing	+3.7

Elections in the 1870s

Kirk's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 23 Jan 1871: Newry^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Conservative	Francis Needham	Unopposed
Registered electors			901
	Irish Conservative gain from Liberal

General election 1874: Newry^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Whitworth	459	50.2	−0.3
	Irish Conservative	Francis Needham	455	49.8	+0.3
Majority			4	0.4	−0.6
Turnout			914	92.3	−3.9
Registered electors			990
	Liberal hold		Swing	−0.3

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1880: Newry^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Conservative	Henry Thomson	587	51.3	+1.5
	Liberal	Patrick Carvill	557	48.7	−1.5
Majority			30	2.6	N/A
Turnout			1,144	95.3	+3.0
Registered electors			1,201
	Irish Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+1.5

1885 general election: Newry^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	Justin Huntly McCarthy	Unopposed
Registered electors			2,163
	Irish Parliamentary gain from Irish Conservative

1886 general election: Newry^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	Justin Huntly McCarthy	1,183	62.3	N/A
	Liberal Unionist	Reginald Cantley Saunders	716	37.7	New
Majority			467	24.6	N/A
Turnout			1,899	87.8	N/A
Registered electors			2,163
	Irish Parliamentary hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1890s

1892 general election: Newry^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish National Federation	Patrick Carvill	907	53.2	N/A
	Irish Unionist	Henry Thomson	744	43.6	+5.9
	Irish National League	Robert Johnston	54	3.2	N/A
Majority			163	9.6	N/A
Turnout			1,705	92.3	+4.5
Registered electors			1,847
	Irish National Federation gain from Irish Parliamentary		Swing	N/A

1895 general election: Newry^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish National Federation	Patrick Carvill	973	60.8	+7.6
	Irish Unionist	Henry Thomson	628	39.2	−4.4
Majority			345	21.6	+12.0
Turnout			1,601	85.5	−6.8
Registered electors			1,872
	Irish National Federation hold		Swing	+6.0

Elections in the 1900s

1900 general election: Newry^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	Patrick Carvill	Unopposed
Registered electors			1,789
	Irish Parliamentary hold

1906 general election: Newry^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	John Joseph Mooney	802	52.1	N/A
	Ind. Nationalist	Patrick Carvill	736	47.9	New
Majority			66	4.2	N/A
Turnout			1,538	80.7	N/A
Registered electors			1,905
	Irish Parliamentary hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1910s

January 1910 general election: Newry^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	John Joseph Mooney	1,079	66.6	+14.5
	Irish Unionist	John Cusack	542	33.4	New
Majority			537	33.2	+29.0
Turnout			1,621	80.2	−0.5
Registered electors			2,021
	Irish Parliamentary hold		Swing	N/A

December 1910 general election: Newry^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	John Joseph Mooney	Unopposed
Registered electors			2,021
	Irish Parliamentary hold

References

1. Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. p. 237. Retrieved 6 October 2018 – via Google Books.
2. Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 234, 307, 370. ISBN 0901714127.
3. Bew, Paul; Wright, Frank (1983). "The Agrarian Opposition in Ulster Politics, 1848–87". In Clark, Samuel; Donnelly Jr., James S. (eds.). Irish Peasants: Violence and Political Unrest 1780–1914. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press. p. 199. ISBN 0-299-09370-0. Retrieved 7 October 2018 – via Google Books.
4. "Newry". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
5. Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, Volume 50. 1843. Retrieved 25 August 2019 – via Google Books.

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