Carrickfergus (UK Parliament constituency)

Carrickfergus
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Replaced by	East Antrim
Created from	Carrickfergus

Carrickfergus is a 19th-century United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Northern Ireland, represented, between 1801 and 1885, by one MP.

Boundaries

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Carrickfergus in County Antrim.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1801, January 1	Noah Dalway		1801: Co-opted
	1802, July 30	Lord Spencer Chichester	Tory	Resigned
	1807, April 29	James Craig	Whig	Initially elected four weeks earlier, in the 31 March 1807 Carrickfergus by-election
	1812, November 5	Arthur Chichester	Tory
	1818, July 1	Earl of Belfast	Tory
	1820, March 16	Sir Arthur Chichester, Bt	Tory	Created Baronet 13 September 1821
	1830, August 10	Lord George Augusta Hill	Whig
	1832, December 9	Conway Richard Dobbs	Conservative 1	Election declared void on petition and writ suspended March 1833
	1835, January 10	Peter Kirk	Conservative
	1847, August 3	Hon. Wellington Stapleton-Cotton	Conservative
	1857, April 2	William Cary Dobbs	Conservative
	1859, May 6	Robert Torrens	Conservative
	1868, November 21	Marriott Robert Dalway	Liberal	Stood as Conservative in 1874 but opposed in 1880 for supporting Gladstone
	1880, April 2	Thomas Greer	Conservative	Last MP for the constituency
1885		Constituency abolished

Supplemental Note:-

• ¹ Walker (like F. W. S. Craig in his compilations of election results for Great Britain) classifies Tory candidates as Conservatives from 1832. The name Conservative was gradually adopted as a description for the Tories. The party is deemed to be named Conservative from the 1835 general election.

References

• Smith, Henry Stooks (1844–50). The Parliaments of England (1st edition published in three volumes)
• Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1973). The Parliaments of England (2nd edition published in one volume). Political Reference Publications
• Walker, B. M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Royal Irish Academy
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 3)