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Armagh City was a United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland.

Armagh City
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Replaced by	Mid Armagh

Boundaries

This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Armagh in County Armagh. It was the successor constituency to the Armagh City constituency of the Parliament of Ireland.

The constituency was disenfranchised in the 1885 redistribution of parliamentary seats and incorporated into the county division of Mid Armagh.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1801, January 1	Patrick Duigenan	Tory	1801: Co-opted. 1816: Died.
	1816, May 8	Daniel Webb Webber	Tory
	1818, June 26	John Leslie Foster	Tory	Also returned for Lisburn
	1820, March 16	William Stuart	Tory
	1826, June 19	Rt Hon. Henry Goulburn	Tory[1]
	1831, May 10	Viscount Ingestre	Tory[1]	Resigned to contest Dublin
	1831, August 25	Sir John Brydges	Tory[1]
	1832, December 15	Leonard Dobbin	Whig[1]
	1837, August 7	William Curry	Whig[1][2]	Appointed Master in Chancery
	1840, May 22	John Rawdon	Whig[1][3][4]
	1852, July 9	Ross Stephenson Moore	Conservative[5]	Died
	1855, December 6	Joshua Bond	Conservative
	1857, April 2	Stearne Miller	Conservative
	1859, May 5	Joshua Bond	Conservative
	1865, July 17	Stearne Miller	Conservative	Appointed Judge in Bankruptcy
	1867, January 30	John Vance	Conservative	Died
	1875, October 18	George Beresford	Conservative	Last MP for the constituency
1885		Constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

General election, 11 August 1830: Armagh City[6][1][7]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Tory	Henry Goulburn	Unopposed
Registered electors			13
	Tory hold

General election, 10 May 1831: Armagh City[6][1][7]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Tory	Henry Chetwynd-Talbot	Unopposed
Registered electors			13
	Tory hold

Chetwynd-Talbot resigned to contest a by-election at Dublin City, causing a by-election.

By-election, 25 August 1831: Armagh City[6][1][7]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Tory	John Brydges (MP)	Unopposed
Registered electors			13
	Tory hold

General election, 15 December 1832: Armagh City[6][1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	Leonard Dobbin	218	53.0
	Tory	Arthur Irwin Kelly	193	47.0
Majority			25	6.0
Turnout			411	92.6
Registered electors			444
	Whig gain from Tory

General election, 15 January 1835: Armagh City[6][1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Leonard Dobbin	197	54.7	+1.7
	Conservative	Robert William Jackson	163	45.3	−1.7
Majority			34	9.4	+3.4
Turnout			360	66.5	−26.1
Registered electors			541
	Whig hold		Swing	+1.7

General election, 7 August 1837: Armagh City[6][1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	William Curry (MP)	235	53.7	−1.0
	Conservative	Joseph Kidd	203	46.3	+1.0
Majority			32	7.4	−2.0
Turnout			438	57.1	−9.4
Registered electors			767
	Whig hold		Swing	−1.0

Elections in the 1840s

Curry resigned after being appointed a Master in Chancery, causing a by-election.

By-election, 22 May 1840: Armagh City[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	John Rawdon	Unopposed
Registered electors
	Whig hold

General election, 5 July 1841: Armagh City[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	John Rawdon	Unopposed
Registered electors			892
	Whig hold

General election, 31 July 1847: Armagh City[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	John Rawdon	Unopposed
Registered electors			838
	Whig hold

Elections in the 1850s

General election, 9 July 1852: Armagh City[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Ross Stephenson Moore	Unopposed
Registered electors			318
	Conservative hold

Moore's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 6 December 1855: Armagh City[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joshua Bond	186	55.9	*N/A*
	Conservative	Thomas Ball Miller	147	44.1	N/A
Majority			39	11.8	N/A
Turnout			333	82.6	N/A
Registered electors			403
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General election, 2 April 1857: Armagh City[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stearne Miller	175	51.9	*N/A*
	Conservative	Joshua Bond	162	48.1	N/A
Majority			13	3.8	N/A
Turnout			337	83.6	N/A
Registered electors			403
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General election, 5 May 1859: Armagh City[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joshua Bond	201	59.5	+11.4
	Conservative	Stearne Miller	137	40.5	−11.4
Majority			64	19.0	+15.2
Turnout			338	82.8	−0.8
Registered electors			408
	Conservative hold		Swing	+11.4

Elections in the 1860s

General election, 17 July 1865: Armagh City[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stearne Miller	184	52.1	+11.6
	Liberal	William Kirk	169	47.9	New
Majority			15	4.2	−14.8
Turnout			353	86.3	+3.5
Registered electors			409
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Miller was appointed a judge in bankruptcy, causing a by-election.

By-election, 30 January 1867: Armagh City[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Vance	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

General election, 17 November 1868: Armagh City[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Vance	Unopposed
Registered electors			603
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1870s

General election 9 April 1874: Armagh City[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Vance	325	60.3	*N/A*
	Liberal	George C Cochrane	214	39.7	New
Majority			111	20.6	N/A
Turnout			539	90.4	N/A
Registered electors			596
	Conservative hold

Vance died, causing a by-election.

By-election, 18 Oct 1875: Armagh City[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Beresford	278	53.0	*N/A*
	Conservative	William Squire Barker Kaye	247	47.0	N/A
Majority			31	6.0	N/A
Turnout			525	88.1	−2.3
Registered electors			596
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1880s

General election 9 April 1880: Armagh City[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	George Beresford	Unopposed
Registered electors			657
	Conservative hold

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)

References

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"The Elections". Dublin Weekly Nation. 7 August 1847. pp. 8–9. Retrieved 15 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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"General Election". Cork Constitution. 13 July 1852. p. 4. Retrieved 15 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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Farrell, Stephen. "Armagh". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 9 May 2020.

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 3)
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Parliamentary constituencies in County Armagh

Parliament of Ireland
to 1800

Armagh Borough (1613–1800)
Armagh County (???–1800)
Charlemont (1613–1800)
Newry (???–1800)

Westminster 1801–present

Historic	Armagh (1801–85, 1922–83) Armagh City (1801–85) Newry (1801–1918) Mid Armagh (1885–1922) North Armagh (1885–1922) South Armagh (1885–1922)
Current	Newry & Armagh (1983—) Upper Bann (1983—)

Dáil Éireann
Revolutionary era 1919–22

First Dáil
1919–21

Seats taken	(none)
Seats not taken	Mid Armagh North Armagh South Armagh

Second Dáil
1921–22

One or more seats taken	Armagh
No seats taken	(none)

Parliament of Northern Ireland 1921–72

Armagh (1921–29)
Central Armagh (1929–72)
Mid Armagh (1929–72)
North Armagh (1929–72)
South Armagh (1929–72)

Northern Ireland Assemblies

Assembly 1973–74 Constitutional Convention 1975–76 Assembly 1982–86	Armagh
Northern Ireland Forum 1996–98 Assembly (1998–present)	Newry & Armagh Upper Bann

European Parliament
1979–2020

Northern Ireland

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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