Carrickfergus (UK Parliament constituency)

Carrickfergus
Carrickfergus
Former borough constituency; for the House of Commons
County	County Antrim
Borough	Carrickfergus
1801–1885
Seats	1
Created from	Carrickfergus
Replaced by	East Antrim

Carrickfergus was a United Kingdom Parliament constituency in Ireland represented from 1801 to 1885 by one MP.

History and boundaries

This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Carrickfergus which was a county corporate in County Antrim. It was disenfranchised under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, which took effect at the 1885 general election.^[1] The county of the town of Carrickfergus became part of the county division of East Antrim.^[2]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1801, January 1	Noah Dalway		1801: Co-opted
	1802, July 30	Lord Spencer Chichester	Tory	Resigned
	1807, April 29	James Craig	Whig	Initially elected four weeks earlier, in the 31 March 1807 Carrickfergus by-election
	1812, November 5	Arthur Chichester	Tory
	1818, July 1	Earl of Belfast	Tory
	1820, March 16	Sir Arthur Chichester, Bt	Tory^[3]	Created Baronet 13 September 1821
	1830, August 10	Lord George Hill	Whig^[4]
	1832, December 9	Conway Richard Dobbs	Tory^[5]	Election declared void on petition
1833, March		Writ suspended
	1835, January 10	Peter Kirk	Conservative^[5]
	1847, August 3	Hon. Wellington Stapleton-Cotton	Conservative
	1857, April 2	William Cary Dobbs	Conservative
	1859, May 6	Robert Torrens	Conservative
	1868, November 21	Marriott Dalway^{[n 1]}^[6]^[7]^[8]	Liberal-Conservative
	1880, April 2	Thomas Greer	Conservative	Last MP for the constituency
1885		Constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1830: Carrickfergus^[6]^[5]^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	George Hill	311	39.1
	Whig	Marcus Hill	241	30.3
	Tory	Charles Adair	198	24.9
	Tory	Arthur Chichester	46	5.8
Majority			70	8.8
Turnout			796	c. 92.6
Registered electors			c. 860
	Whig gain from Tory		Swing

General election 1831: Carrickfergus^[6]^[5]^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	George Hill	Unopposed
Registered electors			860
	Whig hold

General election 1832: Carrickfergus^[6]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Tory	Conway Richard Dobbs	495	52.2
	Whig	Arthur Chichester	447	47.2
	Tory	James Wills	6	0.6
Majority			48	5.0
Turnout			948	92.6
Registered electors			1,024
	Tory gain from Whig

On petition, the election was declared void and the writ for the seat was suspended.

General election 1835: Carrickfergus^[6]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Peter Kirk	Unopposed
Registered electors			1,431
	Conservative hold

General election 1837: Carrickfergus^[6]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Peter Kirk	446	51.6
	Whig	Matthew Boulton Rennie	418	48.4
Majority			28	3.2
Turnout			864	59.3
Registered electors			1,458
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1840s

General election 1841: Carrickfergus^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Peter Kirk	Unopposed
Registered electors			1,326
	Conservative hold

General election 1847: Carrickfergus^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Wellington Stapleton-Cotton	Unopposed
Registered electors			1,426
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1850s

General election 1852: Carrickfergus^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Wellington Stapleton-Cotton	311	51.3	*N/A*
	Whig	Warren Hastings Leslie Frith^[10]	295 Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Carrickfergus_(UK_Parliament_constituency) Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia. Navigácia: Veda > Analytika Antropológia Aplikované vedy Bibliometria Dejiny vedy Encyklopédie Filozofia vedy Forenzné vedy Humanitné vedy Knižničná veda Kryogenika Kryptológia Kulturológia Literárna veda Medzidisciplinárne oblasti Metódy kvantitatívnej analýzy Metavedy Metodika Metodológia vedy Náboženstvo a veda Náučná literatúra Podvody vo vede Popularizácia vedy Potravinárstvo Prírodné vedy Pseudoveda Scientometria Spoločenské vedy Teórie Teatrológia Technické vedy Technika Terminológia Umenie Výskum Veda Veda a technika podľa štátu Veda a technika podľa kontinentu Veda a technika podľa roka Veda v kozme Vedci Vedecká literatúra Vedecké databázy Vedecké experimenty Vedecké konferencie Vedecké metódy Vedecké ocenenia Vedecké organizácie Vedecké parky Vedeckí spisovatelia Vzdelávanie Záhady Príbuzné výrazy: Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia. www.astronomia.sk \| www.biologia.sk \| www.botanika.sk \| www.dejiny.sk \| www.economy.sk \| www.elektrotechnika.sk \| www.estetika.sk \| www.farmakologia.sk \| www.filozofia.sk \| Fyzika \| www.futurologia.sk \| www.genetika.sk \| www.chemia.sk \| www.lingvistika.sk \| www.politologia.sk \| www.psychologia.sk \| www.sexuologia.sk \| www.sociologia.sk \| www.veda.sk I www.zoologia.sk

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Carrickfergus
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	County Antrim
Borough	Carrickfergus
1801–1885
Seats	1
Created from	Carrickfergus
Replaced by	East Antrim