Dungannon (UK Parliament constituency)

Dungannon
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1801 (1801)–1885 (1885)
Replaced by	South Tyrone

Dungannon was a United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801.

Boundaries

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Dungannon in County Tyrone.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1801	John Knox[1]
	1801 by-election	Sir Charles Hamilton, Bt
	1802	George Knox[2]
	1803 by-election	Sir Charles Hamilton, Bt
	1806	George Knox[2]
	1807 by-election	James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton
	1807	Lord Claude Hamilton
	1809 by-election	Claude Scott
	1812	George Peter Holford
	1818	Hon. Thomas Knox
	28 December 1830	John James Knox	Conservative
	1837	Viscount Northland (2nd)	Conservative
	1838 by-election	Viscount Northland (3rd)	Conservative
	1851 by-election	William Stuart Knox	Conservative
	1874	Thomas Alexander Dickson	Liberal
	1880 by-election[3]	James Dickson	Liberal
1885		constituency abolished

Elections

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Notes

1. ^ Knox was returned in the ballot for Irish borough constituencies held in December 1800. However, he had been lost at sea the previous month while on his way to take up the post of Governor of Jamaica. This was not known at the time of the ballot. No writ to replace him was issued until 4 Nov 1801
2. ^ ^{a b} At both the 1802 and 1806 elections, George Knox was also returned for Dublin University, and chose to sit for that seat rather than for Dungannon.
3. ^ Thomas Alexander Dickson had been re-elected at the general election in April 1880, but his election was declared void on 10 June 1880

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 4 )