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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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22 December 1832		1,160/1,246	93.10
Walter Blackney	Irish Repeal	657	56.64
Thomas Wallace	Whig	657	56.64
Henry Bruen	Tory	483	41.64
Thomas Kavanagh	Tory	470	40.52
Majority		174	15.00

20 May 1833 Petition - dismissed.

12 January 1835		1,144/1,269	90.15
Henry Bruen	Conservative Party	588	51.40
Thomas Kavanagh	Conservative Party	587	51.31
Maurice O'Connell	Irish Repeal (Whig)	554	48.43
Michael Cahill	Irish Repeal (Whig)	553	48.34
Majority		33	2.88

27 May 1835 Petition - Henry Bruen and Thomas Kavanagh unseated and a new writ issued.

15 June 1835		1,198/1,269	94.41
Dr Nicholas Aylward Vigors	Irish Repeal (Whig)	627	52.34
Alexander Raphael	Whig	626	52.25
Thomas Kavanagh	Conservative Party	572	47.75
Henry Bruen	Conservative Party	571	47.66
Majority		54	4.51

19 August 1835 Petition - Nicholas Vigors and Alexander Raphael unseated and Thomas Kavanagh and Henry Bruen declared elected. 105 votes for Vigors and Raphael were discounted.

20 January 1837 Death of Thomas Kavanagh.

18 February 1837		1,302/1,718	75.79
Dr Nicholas Aylward Vigors	Irish Repeal (Whig)	669	51.38
Thomas Bunbury	Conservative Party	633	48.62
Majority		36	2.76

11 August 1837		1,373/1,779	77.18
Dr Nicholas Aylward Vigors	Irish Repeal (Whig)	730	53.17
John Ashton Yates	Whig	730	53.17
Henry Bruen	Conservative Party	643	46.83
Thomas Bunbury	Conservative Party	643	46.83
Majority		87	6.34

26 October 1840 Death of Dr Nicholas Vigors.

5 December 1840		1,277/1,759	72.60
Henry Bruen	Conservative Party	722	56.54
Hon Frederick Ponsonby	Whig	555	43.46
Majority		167	13.08

17 July 1841		1,401/1,759	79.65
Henry Bruen	Conservative Party	705	50.32
Thomas Bunbury	Conservative Party	704	50.25
John Ashton Yates	Whig	697	49.75
Daniel O'Connell	Irish Repeal	696	49.68
Majority		7	0.50

28 May 1846 Death of Thomas Bunbury.

1 July 1846
William Bunbury McClintock	Conservative Party	Unopposed

10 August 1847		1,984
Henry Bruen	Conservative Party	Unopposed
William Bunbury McClintock Bunbury	Conservative Party	Unopposed

26 July 1852		1,773/2,090	84.83
John Ball	Independent Irish	895	50.48
Henry Bruen	Conservative Party	893	50.37
William Bunbury McClintock Bunbury	Conservative Party	880	49.63
John Henry Keogh	Whig	877	49.46
Majority		13	0.73

5 November 1852 Death of Henry Bruen.

25 April 1853		2,039
William Bunbury McClintock Bunbury	Conservative Party	Unopposed

4 April 1857		2,381
William Bunbury McClintock Bunbury	Conservative Party	Unopposed
Henry Bruen	Conservative Party	Unopposed

10 May 1859		2,418
William Bunbury McClintock Bunbury	Conservative Party	Unopposed
Henry Bruen	Conservative Party	Unopposed

24 July 1862 Resignation of William McClintock Bunbury. (Hempholme)

7 August 1862		2,520
Denis William Pack Beresford	Conservative Party	Unopposed

17 July 1865		2,449
Henry Bruen	Conservative Party	Unopposed
Denis William Pack Beresford	Conservative Party	Unopposed

18 November 1868		2,309
Henry Bruen	Conservative Party	Unopposed
Arthur McMurrough Kavanagh	Conservative Party	Unopposed

2 February 1874		2,180
Henry Bruen	Conservative Party	Unopposed
Arthur McMurrough Kavanagh	Conservative Party	Unopposed

10 April 1880		1,857/2,212	83.95
Edmund William Dwyer Gray	Home Rule	1,224	65.91
Donald Horne Macfarlane	Home Rule	1,143	61.55
Arthur McMurrough Kavanagh	Conservative Party	714	38.45
Henry Bruen	Conservative Party	633	34.09
Majority		429	23.10