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Meath
Meath
	; Former County constituency; for the House of Commons;
; 1801–1885;
Number of members	; Two
Replaced by	; North Meath and South Meath;

Meath 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.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Meath.

Members of Parliament

Election	1st Member		1st Party		2nd Party
1801		Hamilton Gorges		Sir Marcus Somerville, 4th Baronet
1802		Thomas Cherburgh Bligh
1812		Thomas Taylour,Earl of Bective (later Marquess of Headfort)
Feb 1830		Arthur Plunkett, Baron Killeen, later Earl of Fingall
Aug 1831		Arthur Plunkett, Baron Killeen, later Earl of Fingall		Henry Grattan
1832		Morgan O'Connell	Repealer		Repealer
1835		Morgan O'Connell	Liberal Repealer		Liberal Repealer
Feb 1840		Matthew Corbally	Whig		Liberal Repealer
1841		Daniel O'Connell^[1]	Repealer		Repealer
Jun 1842		Matthew Corbally	Whig		Repealer
1852			Independent Irish Party	Frederick Lucas	Liberal
1855			Independent Irish Party	Edward McEvoy	Irish Independent
1859			Liberal		Liberal
1871		John Martin	Home Rule League		Liberal
1874		John Martin	Home Rule League	Nicholas Ennis	Home Rule League
1875		Charles Stewart Parnell^[2]	Home Rule League	Nicholas Ennis	Home Rule League
Apr 1880		Charles Stewart Parnell^[2]	Home Rule League	Robert Henry Metge	Home Rule League
May 1880		Alexander Martin Sullivan	Home Rule League
Feb 1882		Michael Davitt^[3]	Home Rule League
Apr 1882		Edward Sheil	Home Rule League
Feb 1884		Edward Sheil	Home Rule League	William Meagher	Home Rule League
1885	Constituency divided: see South Meath and North Meath

Elections

Elections in the 1860s

General Election 1865: Meath^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Matthew Corbally	Unopposed
	Liberal	Edward McEvoy	Unopposed
Registered electors			4,155
	Liberal hold
	Liberal hold

General Election 1868: Meath^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Matthew Corbally	1,696	49.3	*N/A*
	Liberal	Edward McEvoy	1,655	48.1	*N/A*
	Liberal	John Thomas Hinds	88	2.6	N/A
Majority			1,567	45.6	N/A
Turnout			1,720 (est)	42.8 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			4,018
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1870s

Corbally's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 17 Jan 1871: Meath^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent Nationalist	John Martin	1,140	62.5	*N/A*
	Conservative	George John Plunkett	684	37.5	N/A
Majority			456	25.0	N/A
Turnout			1,824	43.6	+0.8
Registered electors			4,179
	Independent Nationalist gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A

General Election 1874: Meath^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Home Rule	Nicholas Ennis	1,716	38.8	*N/A*
	Home Rule	John Martin	1,709	38.7	*N/A*
	Conservative	James Lennox Napier	992	22.5	N/A
Majority			717	16.2	N/A
Turnout			2,705 (est)	66.5 (est)	+20.9
Registered electors			4,069
	Home Rule gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A
	Home Rule gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A

Martin's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 17 Apr 1875: Meath^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Home Rule	Charles Stewart Parnell	1,771	62.8	−14.7
	Conservative	James Lennox Napier	912	32.3	+9.8
	Home Rule	John Thomas Hinds	138	4.9	N/A
Majority			859	30.5	+14.3
Turnout			2,821	68.2	+1.7
Registered electors			4,139
	Home Rule hold		Swing	−12.3

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1880: Meath^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Home Rule (Parnellite)	Charles Stewart Parnell	2,283	45.2	+6.4
	Home Rule	Robert Henry Metge	2,252	44.6	+5.9
	Conservative	Henry Lorton Bourke	514	10.2	−12.3
Majority			1,738	34.4	+18.2
Turnout			2,797 (est)	72.1 (est)	+5.6
Registered electors			3,877
	Home Rule hold		Swing	+6.3
	Home Rule hold		Swing	+6.0

Parnell was also elected MP for Cork City and opted to sit there, causing a by-election.

By-election, 20 May 1880: Meath^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Home Rule	Alexander Martin Sullivan	Unopposed
Registered electors			3,877
	Home Rule hold

Sullivan resigned, causing a by-election.

By-election, 22 Feb 1882: Meath^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Home Rule	Michael Davitt	Unopposed
Registered electors			3,711
	Home Rule hold

Davitt was disqualified because he was in prison, causing a by-election.

By-election, 14 Apr 1882: Meath^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Home Rule	Edward Sheil	Unopposed
Registered electors			3,711
	Home Rule hold

Metge resigned, causing a by-election.

By-election, 21 Feb 1884: Meath^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Home Rule	William Meagher	Unopposed
Registered electors			3,660
	Home Rule hold

Notes

^ O'Connell was also returned for County Cork and chose to sit for Cork

^ At the 1880 general election, Parnell was also returned for both Mayo and Cork City. He chose to sit for Cork

^ As a convicted felon, Davitt was held to be incapable of taking his seat. A by-election was held in April 1882

^ ^a^b^c^d^e^f^g^hⁱ^j Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.

References

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)

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 2)

[1] O'Connell was also returned for County Cork and chose to sit for Cork

[2] At the 1880 general election, Parnell was also returned for both Mayo and Cork City. He chose to sit for Cork

[3] As a convicted felon, Davitt was held to be incapable of taking his seat. A by-election was held in April 1882

[“walker”-4] ⁱ^j Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.

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