Youghal (UK Parliament constituency)

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Youghal
Former borough constituency
for the House of Commons
County County Cork
Borough Youghal
1801–1885
Seats1
Created from Youghal (IHC)
Replaced by East Cork

Youghal 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.

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Boundaries

This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Youghal in County Cork. A Topographical Directory of Ireland, published in 1837, describes the Parliamentary history of the borough.

The borough appears to have exercised the elective franchise by prescription, as, though no notice of that privilege appears in any of its charters, it continued to send two members to the Irish parliament from the year 1374 until the Union, since which period it has returned one member to the imperial parliament; the right of election was vested solely in the members of the corporation and the freemen, whether resident or not; but by the act of the 2nd of Wm. IV., cap. 88, it has been granted to the £10 householders, and the non-resident freemen have been disfranchised. A new boundary has been drawn round the town, including an area of 212 statute acres.

The new boundary of 1832, contained in the Parliamentary Boundaries (Ireland) Act 1832 was:

From the Point to the South of the Town where the new Road to Cork quits the Sea-shore, Northward, in a straight Line to the Point in Windmill Lane where the same is joined by a Bye Road from the North, about Two hundred Yards to the West of the House occupied by Mr. Flyn; thence in a straight Line to the South-western Angle of the Ordnance Ground on which the Barracks stand, near the old Cork Road; thence along the Western Fence of the Ordnance Ground to the North-western Angle of the same; thence, Northward in a straight Line to the Spot where the upper Edge of the great Quarry near Counsellor Feuge's House is cut by a Road which runs through the same to the Mount Uniacke Road; thence along the Road so running through the Quarry to the Point where the same meets the Mount Uniacke Road; thence, Northward, in a straight Line to the Point where a Bye Road which leads from the Mount Uniacke Road to the Waterford Road makes a Turn almost at Right Angles a little to the South of the House called Eustace's Folly; thence, Northward, along the same Road, passing to the West of Eustace's Folly, to the Spot where the same Road meets the Waterford Road; thence in a straight Line to the nearest Point of the Sea-shore; thence along the Sea-shore to the Point first described.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberPartyNote
1801, 1 January Sir John Keane, Bt Tory 1801: Co-opted. Created Baronet 1 August 1801.
1806, 10 November James Bernard, Viscount Bernard Tory
1807, 18 May Henry Boyle, Viscount Boyle Whig Became the 3rd Earl of Shannon
1807, 28 July Sir John Keane, Bt Tory First returned at a by-election
1818, 27 June James Bernard, Viscount Bernard Tory
1820, 15 March John Hyde
1826, 14 June Hon. George Ponsonby Whig [1] Not George Ponsonby (1755–1817), but his nephew.
1832, 15 December John O'Connell Repeal Association [1] [2] Re-elected as a candidate of a Liberal/Repealer pact
1837, 8 August Frederick John Howard Whig [1] [3]
1841, 3 July Hon. Charles Cavendish Whig [1] [4] [5] [6]
1847, 7 August Thomas Chisholm Anstey Irish Confederate [2] [7]
1852, 15 July Isaac Butt Conservative [2] Re-elected as a Liberal candidate
1857, 28 March Peelite [8] [9]
1859, 9 May Liberal [2]
1865, 18 July Joseph Neale McKenna Liberal [2]
1868, 23 November Christopher Weguelin Liberal [2] Unseated on petition and new writ issued
1869, 11 May Montague Guest Liberal [2] Returned at a by-election
1874, 4 February Sir Joseph Neale McKenna Home Rule League [2] Last MP for the constituency
1885 constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1830: Youghal [2] [1] [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Whig George Ponsonby 66 95.7
Nonpartisan Richard Smyth34.3
Majority6391.4
Turnout 69c. 28.5
Registered electors c. 242
Whig hold

Ponsonby was appointed as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, requiring a by-election.

By-election, 4 December 1830: Youghal [2] [1] [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Whig George Ponsonby Unopposed
Whig hold
General election 1831: Youghal [2] [1] [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Whig George Ponsonby Unopposed
Registered electors 242
Whig hold
General election 1832: Youghal [2] [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Irish Repeal John O'Connell 22 81.5
Tory Roger Green Davis518.5
Majority1763.0
Turnout 279.1
Registered electors 297
Irish Repeal gain from Whig
General election 1835: Youghal [2] [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Irish Repeal (Whig) John O'Connell 137 51.3 −30.2
Conservative Thomas Cusack-Smith 13048.7+30.2
Majority72.6−60.4
Turnout 26779.0+69.9
Registered electors 338
Irish Repeal hold Swing −30.2
General election 1837: Youghal [2] [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Frederick John Howard 158 51.3 N/A
Conservative William Nicol 15048.7±0.0
Majority82.6N/A
Turnout 30858.6−20.4
Registered electors 526
Whig gain from Irish Repeal Swing N/A

Elections in the 1840s

General election 1841: Youghal [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Charles Cavendish Unopposed
Registered electors 498
Whig hold
General election 1847: Youghal [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Irish Confederate Thomas Chisholm Anstey 110 61.8 New
Whig William Ponsonby6838.2N/A
Majority4223.6N/A
Turnout 17834.1N/A
Registered electors 522
Irish Confederate gain from Whig Swing N/A

Elections in the 1850s

General election 1852: Youghal [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Isaac Butt 111 50.5 New
Whig John Fortescue [11] [12] 10949.5+11.3
Majority21.0N/A
Turnout 22084.3+50.2
Registered electors 261
Conservative gain from Irish Confederate Swing N/A
General election 1857: Youghal [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Peelite Isaac Butt Unopposed
Registered electors 220
Peelite gain from Conservative
General election 1859: Youghal [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Isaac Butt 128 70.3 New
Conservative John Rowland Smyth 5429.7New
Majority7440.6N/A
Turnout 18277.8N/A
Registered electors 234
Liberal gain from Peelite Swing N/A

Elections in the 1860s

General election 1865: Youghal [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Joseph Neale McKenna 122 80.3 N/A
Liberal Isaac Butt 3019.7−50.6
Majority9260.6+20.0
Turnout 15264.1−13.7
Registered electors 237
Liberal hold Swing N/A
General election 1868: Youghal [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Christopher Weguelin 127 54.5 N/A
Liberal Joseph Neale McKenna 10645.5−34.4
Majority219.0−51.6
Turnout 23383.8+19.7
Registered electors 278
Liberal hold Swing N/A

On petition, Weguelin was unseated due to treating, and a by-election was called. [13]

By-election, 11 May 1869: Youghal [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Montague Guest 126 50.6 N/A
Conservative Charles Green12349.4New
Majority31.2−7.8
Turnout 24989.6+5.8
Registered electors 278
Liberal hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1870s

General election 1874: Youghal [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Home Rule Joseph Neale McKenna 124 53.9 +8.4
Conservative Robert Penrose-Fitzgerald 10646.1N/A
Majority187.8−1.2
Turnout 23083.3−0.5
Registered electors 276
Home Rule gain from Liberal Swing N/A

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1880: Youghal [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Home Rule Joseph Neale McKenna 133 52.6 −1.3
Conservative David Taylor Arnott 12047.4+1.3
Majority135.2−2.6
Turnout 25387.5+4.2
Registered electors 289
Home Rule hold Swing −1.3

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. p. 244. Retrieved 14 October 2018– via Google Books.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 246–247, 324. ISBN   0901714127.
  3. ↑ Churton, Edward (1838). The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer. pp. 126–127. Retrieved 21 August 2018– via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Fisher, David R. (1986). Thorne, R. (ed.). "CAVENDISH, Charles Compton (1793–1863), of Latimers, nr. Chesham, Bucks". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  5. ↑ Spencer, Howard; Salmon, Philip. Fisher, D. R. (ed.). "CAVENDISH, Charles Compton (1793–1863), of Latimers, nr. Chesham, Bucks". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  6. ↑ "Bucks Gazette" . 7 August 1847. p. 4. Retrieved 29 July 2018– via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ "The Confederation—Meeting in the Musical Hall" . The Pilot. 27 August 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 14 October 2018– via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ↑ "Birmingham Journal" . 28 March 1857. p. 8. Retrieved 14 October 2018– via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ↑ Boase, George Clement (1886). "Butt, Isaac"  . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 08. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  10. 1 2 3 Salmon, Philip. "Youghal". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  11. ↑ "General Election" . Dublin Evening Mail. 16 July 1852. p. 4. Retrieved 14 October 2018– via British Newspaper Archive.
  12. ↑ Sanders, Lloyd Charles (1912). "Fortescue, Hugh"  . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  13. ↑ "The Youghal Election Petition" . Bury and Norwich Post. 20 April 1869. p. 3. Retrieved 24 March 2018– via British Newspaper Archive.

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