Sligo Borough (UK Parliament constituency)

Sligo Borough (UK Parliament constituency)

UK former constituency infobox
Name = Sligo Borough
Type = Borough
Year = 1801
Abolition = 1870
members = One

Sligo Borough is a former borough constituency in Ireland, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January, 1801, and returned one Member of Parliament (MP), elected by the first past the post system of election.

There were problems with the 20 November, 1868 election in the Borough. A petition was presented by the losing candidate, alleging corruption. As a result the election was declared void. Parliament then passed the Sligo and Cashel Disenfranchisement Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c.38). On 1 August, 1870 Sligo Borough lost the right to elect its own MP. The area was transferred to form part of the Sligo County constituency.

Boundaries

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Sligo in County Sligo.

Members of Parliament

Supplemental Note:-
* 1 Walker (like F. W. S. Craig in his compilations of election results for Great Britain) classifies Whig, Radical and similar candidates as Liberals from 1832. The name Liberal was gradually adopted as a description for the Whigs and politicians allied with them, before the formal creation of the Liberal Party shortly after the 1859 general election.

Elections

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)
*"British Electoral Facts 1832-1987", compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services, 5th edition, 1989)
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