Cavan (UK Parliament constituency)

Cavan
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	East Cavan and West Cavan

Cavan was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which from 1801 to 1885 returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Cavan.

Members of Parliament

From 1801 to 1885 County Cavan was one constituency with two Members of Parliament who both represented the whole of the county.

Election	1st Member		1st Party		2nd Party
1801		Francis Saunderson	Whig	Nathaniel Sneyd	Tory
1802		Francis Saunderson	Whig
1806		John Maxwell-Barry	Tory
1807
1812
1818
1820
1824		Henry Maxwell	Tory
1826				Alexander Saunderson	Tory
1830				Alexander Saunderson	Tory
1831				Sir John Young, Bt.	Tory
1832					Tory
1835			Conservative		Conservative
1837			Conservative
1839		Somerset Richard Maxwell	Conservative
1840		Henry John Clements	Conservative
1841
1841
1843		James Pierce Maxwell	Conservative
1847					Peelite
1852					Peelite
1853					Conservative
1855				Robert Burrowes	Conservative
1857				Hugh Annesley	Conservative
1859
1865		Edward James Saunderson	Palmerstonian Liberal
1868		Edward James Saunderson	Conservative
1874		Charles Joseph Fay	Home Rule League	Joseph Gillis Biggar	Home Rule League
1880		Charles Joseph Fay	Home Rule League	Joseph Gillis Biggar	Home Rule League
1885	constituency abolished: see Cavan East and Cavan West

Election results

Elections in the 1800s

1 January 1801 (co-option)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	Francis Saunderson	Whig	nominated
	Nathaniel Sneyd	Tory	nominated

16 July 1802 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	Francis Saunderson	Whig	unopposed
	Nathaniel Sneyd	Tory	unopposed

17 November 1806 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	Nathaniel Sneyd	Tory	unopposed
	John Maxwell-Barry	Tory	unopposed

18 May 1807 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	Nathaniel Sneyd	Tory	unopposed
	John Maxwell-Barry	Tory	unopposed

Elections in the 1810s

21 October 1812 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	Nathaniel Sneyd	Tory	unopposed
	John Maxwell-Barry	Tory	unopposed

29 June 1818 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	Nathaniel Sneyd	Tory	unopposed
	John Maxwell-Barry	Tory	unopposed

Elections in the 1820s

18 March 1820 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	Nathaniel Sneyd	Tory	unopposed
	John Maxwell-Barry	Tory	unopposed

1824 (By-election)
John Maxwell-Barry, who had succeeded as 5th Baron Farnham on the 23 July 1823, was replaced by Henry Maxwell on the 24 February 1824.

28 June 1826 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	Henry Maxwell	Tory	2,854 - elected
	Alexander Saunderson	Tory	2,673 - elected
	Robert Henry Southwell		1,917 - defeated
	Charles Coote		1,901 - defeated

Elections in the 1830s

12 August 1830 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	Henry Maxwell	Tory	786 - elected
	Alexander Saunderson	Tory	452 - elected
	Sir William Young, Bt.		287 - defeated

19 May 1831 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	Henry Maxwell	Tory	664 - elected
	John Young	Tory	614 - elected
	Robert Henry Southwell		331 - defeated

17 December 1832 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	Henry Maxwell	Tory	unopposed
	John Young	Tory	unopposed

14 January 1835 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	Henry Maxwell	Conservative	unopposed
	John Young	Conservative	unopposed

10 August 1837 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	Henry Maxwell	Conservative	unopposed
	John Young	Conservative	unopposed

1839 and 1840 (By-elections)
Henry Maxwell, who had succeeded as 7th Baron Farnham on the 19 October 1838, was replaced by Somerset Richard Maxwell on the 18 February 1839, however, he resigned the next year and was replaced by Henry John Clements on the 12 August 1840.

Elections in the 1840s

1841 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	John Young	Conservative	unopposed
	Henry John Clements	Conservative	unopposed

1841 (By-election)
John Young was appointed on the 30 September 1841 as a Commissioner of the Treasury and resigned as M.P. for Cavan, but was re-elected later the same year.

1843 (By-election)
Henry John Clements died on the 12 January 1843 and was replaced by James Pierce Maxwell on the 17 February 1843.

9 August 1847 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	James Pierce Maxwell	Conservative	unopposed
	John Young*	Peelite	unopposed
* He succeeded a baronetcy in 1848 and became Sir John Young, Bt.

Elections in the 1850s

16 July 1852 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	James Pierce Maxwell	Conservative	2,252 - elected
	Sir John Young, Bt.	Peelite	2,049 - elected
	Hercules Ellis	Liberal	727 - defeated

1853 (By-election)
Sir John Young was appointed in 1853 as Chief Secretary of Ireland and resigned as M.P. for Cavan, but was re-elected on the 10 January 1853, but this time for the Conservative Party. Two years later a by-election was created when Sir John Young resigned as M.P. for the last time and took up the appointment as Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands.

1855 (By-election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	Robert Burrowes	Conservative	2,163 - elected
	Henry George Hughes, Q.C.	Liberal	1,866 - defeated

13 April 1857 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	James Pierce Maxwell	Conservative	3,164 - elected
	Hugh Annesley	Conservative	2,164 - elected
	Matthew O'Reilly Dease	Liberal	1,409 - defeated

9 May 1859 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	James Pierce Maxwell	Conservative	unopposed
	Hugh Annesley	Conservative	unopposed

Elections in the 1860s

1865 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	Hugh Annesley	Conservative	unopposed
	Edward James Saunderson	Palmerstonian Liberal	unopposed

23 November 1868 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	Hugh Annesley	Conservative	unopposed
	Edward James Saunderson	Conservative	unopposed

Elections in the 1870s

1874 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	Charles Joseph Fay	Home Rule League	elected
	Joseph Gillis Biggar	Home Rule League	elected
	Edward James Saunderson	Conservative	defeated

Elections in the 1880s

9 April 1880 (General election)
Candidate		Party	Votes
	Charles Joseph Fay	Home Rule League	3,097 - elected
	Joseph Gillis Biggar	Home Rule League	3,061 - elected
	Somerset Henry Maxwell	Conservative	2,233 - defeated

References

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 3)
The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973).
Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978).
The Anglo-Celt 150th Anniversary Souvenir Supplement (dated 30 May 1996).

Parliamentary constituencies in County Cavan and Borough

Parliament of Ireland
to 1800

Belturbet (1614–1800)
Cavan Borough (1611–1800)
Cavan County (????–1800)

Westminster 1801–1922
and First Dáil 1918

Cavan County (1801–85)
East Cavan (1885–1922)
West Cavan (1885–1922)

Dáil Éireann
1918–present

Historic	Cavan (1921–77)

Current	Cavan–Monaghan (1977–)

European Parliament
1979–present

Connacht–Ulster (1979–2004)
North-West (2004–14)
Midlands–North-West (2014–)

Constituencies in Ireland by county

Republic of Ireland	Carlow Cavan Clare Cork Donegal Dublin Galway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Laois Leitrim Limerick Longford Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan Offaly Roscommon Sligo Tipperary Waterford Westmeath Wexford Wicklow

Northern Ireland	Antrim Armagh Down Fermanagh Londonderry Tyrone

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