Armagh City (UK Parliament constituency)

Armagh City
Armagh City
	Former Borough constituency; for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Replaced by	Mid Armagh

Armagh City was a United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland.

Boundaries

This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Armagh in County Armagh. It was the successor constituency to the Armagh City constituency of the Parliament of Ireland.

The constituency was disenfranchised in the 1885 redistribution of parliamentary seats and incorporated into the county division of Mid Armagh.

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1801, January 1	Patrick Duigenan	Tory	1801: Co-opted. 1816: Died.
	1816, May 8	Daniel Webb Webber	Tory
	1818, June 26	John Leslie Foster	Tory	Also returned for Lisburn
	1820, March 16	William Stuart	Tory
	1826, June 19	Rt Hon. Henry Goulburn	Tory[1]
	1831, May 10	Viscount Ingestre	Tory[1]	Resigned to contest Dublin
	1831, August 25	Sir John Brydges	Tory[1]
	1832, December 15	Leonard Dobbin	Whig[1]
	1837, August 7	William Curry	Whig[1][2]	Appointed Master in Chancery
	1840, May 22	John Rawdon	Whig[1][3][4]
	1852, July 9	Ross Stephenson Moore	Conservative[5]	Died
	1855, December 6	Joshua Bond	Conservative
	1857, April 2	Stearne Miller	Conservative
	1859, May 5	Joshua Bond	Conservative
	1865, July 17	Stearne Miller	Conservative	Appointed Judge in Bankruptcy
	1867, January 30	John Vance	Conservative	Died
	1875, October 18	George Beresford	Conservative	Last MP for the constituency
1885		Constituency abolished

Chetwynd-Talbot resigned to contest a by-election at Dublin City, causing a by-election.

General election, 15 January 1835: Armagh City[6][1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Leonard Dobbin	197	54.7	+1.7
	Conservative	Robert William Jackson	163	45.3	−1.7
Majority			34	9.4	+3.4
Turnout			360	66.5	−26.1
Registered electors			541
	Whig hold		Swing	+1.7

General election, 7 August 1837: Armagh City[6][1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	William Curry (MP)	235	53.7	−1.0
	Conservative	Joseph Kidd	203	46.3	+1.0
Majority			32	7.4	−2.0
Turnout			438	57.1	−9.4
Registered electors			767
	Whig hold		Swing	−1.0

Curry resigned after being appointed a Master in Chancery, causing a by-election.

Moore's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 6 December 1855: Armagh City[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joshua Bond	186	55.9	*N/A*
	Conservative	Thomas Ball Miller	147	44.1	N/A
Majority			39	11.8	N/A
Turnout			333	82.6	N/A
Registered electors			403
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General election, 2 April 1857: Armagh City[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stearne Miller	175	51.9	*N/A*
	Conservative	Joshua Bond	162	48.1	N/A
Majority			13	3.8	N/A
Turnout			337	83.6	N/A
Registered electors			403
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General election, 5 May 1859: Armagh City[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joshua Bond	201	59.5	+11.4
	Conservative	Stearne Miller	137	40.5	−11.4
Majority			64	19.0	+15.2
Turnout			338	82.8	−0.8
Registered electors			408
	Conservative hold		Swing	+11.4

General election, 17 July 1865: Armagh City[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stearne Miller	184	52.1	+11.6
	Liberal	William Kirk	169	47.9	New
Majority			15	4.2	−14.8
Turnout			353	86.3	+3.5
Registered electors			409
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Miller was appointed a judge in bankruptcy, causing a by-election.

By-election, 30 January 1867: Armagh City[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Vance	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

General election 9 April 1874: Armagh City[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Vance	325	60.3	*N/A*
	Liberal	George C Cochrane	214	39.7	New
Majority			111	20.6	N/A
Turnout			539	90.4	N/A
Registered electors			596
	Conservative hold

Vance died, causing a by-election.

By-election, 18 Oct 1875: Armagh City[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Beresford	278	53.0	*N/A*
	Conservative	William Squire Barker Kaye	247	47.0	N/A
Majority			31	6.0	N/A
Turnout			525	88.1	−2.3
Registered electors			596
	Conservative hold

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