County Donegal | |
Type: | county |
County: | County Donegal |
Region: | Ireland |
Parliament: | ihc |
Abolished: | 1801 |
Next: | County Donegal (UKHC) |
Seats: | 2 |
County Donegal was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition on 1 January 1801. The county received two seats at Westminster thereafter.
In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, County Donegal was not represented. Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote.
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | |||
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1613 | Sir John Vaughan | Sir William Stewart[1] | |||||
1634 | |||||||
1639 | Sir Ralph Gore | Sir Paul Davys | |||||
1656 | Sir Tristram Beresford, 1st Baronet | Thomas Newburgh | |||||
1661 | Charles Hamilton[2] | Richard Perkins | |||||
1689 | County Donegal was not represented in the Patriot Parliament | ||||||
1692 | < | -- party --> | |||||
1695 | |||||||
1707 | Frederick Hamilton[3] | Whig | |||||
1713 | Whig | ||||||
1716 | < | -- party --> | |||||
1727 | |||||||
1730 | The Hon. Henry Hamilton | < | -- party --> | ||||
1735 | George Knox | ||||||
1741 | Sir St George Gore-St George, 5th Bt | < | -- party --> | ||||
1743 | < | -- party --> | |||||
1747 | Sir Ralph Gore, 6th Bt | ||||||
1765 | Robert Clements | ||||||
1768 | Patriot | ||||||
1776 | Robert Clements | ||||||
1783 | < | -- party --> | |||||
1790 | |||||||
1800 | Viscount Sudley | ||||||
1801 | Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Donegal |