Drogheda (UK Parliament constituency)

Drogheda
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1801 (1801)–1885 (1885)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	South Louth

Drogheda was a parliamentary borough constituency in Ireland, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to 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, replacing the Drogheda constituency in the Parliament of Ireland.

Boundaries

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Drogheda in County Louth.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1801, January 1	Edward Hardman		1801: Co-opted
	1806, November 14	Henry Meade Ogle	Tory
	1807, November 14	Hon. Thomas Foster	Whig
	1812, October 21	Henry Meade Ogle	Tory
	1820, March 28	Henry Metcalfe	Tory	Died
	1822, March 9	William Meade Smyth	Tory
	1826, June 17	Peter Van Homrigh
	1830, August 13	John Henry North	Tory	Died
	1831, October 20	Thomas Wallace	Whig
	1832, December 15	Andrew Carew O'Dwyer	Repeal Association	Re-elected as the candidate of a Liberal/Repealer pact
	1835, January 12		Liberal	Unseated on petition. New writ issued.
	1835, April 24			Unseated on petition
	1835, June 21	Hon. Randal Edward Plunkett	Conservative	Declared elected on petition
	1837, August 3	Rt Hon. Sir William Somerville, Bt	Liberal
	1852, July 13	James McCann	Liberal	Became a member of the Independent Irish Party
	1852		Independent Irish	Re-elected as a Liberal candidate
	1857, April 4		Liberal
	1865, July 17	Benjamin Whitworth	Liberal	Unseated on petition. New writ issued.
	1869, March 15	Thomas Whitworth	Liberal
	1874, February 5	Dr William Hagarty O'Leary	Home Rule League	Died
	1880, March 2	Benjamin Whitworth	Home Rule League	Last MP for the constituency
1885		Constituency abolished

Elections

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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 "D" (part 3)