Background Information
Constituency business
County
Date Candidate Votes
10 Dec. 1832 JOHN MARTIN (Lib)
213
John Wynne (Con)
159
Gregory Cuffe Martin (Lib)
20
Robert Jones (Lib)
5
6 Jan. 1835 JOHN MARTIN (Lib)
24 July 1837 JOHN PATRICK SOMERS (Lib)
262
John Martin (Con)
208
29 June 1841 JOHN PATRICK SOMERS (R)
29 July 1847 JOHN PATRICK SOMERS (R)
1 July 1848 CHARLES TOWNELEY (Lib) Somers unseated on petition and new writ issued; Towneley unseated on petition and new writ issued
130
John Patrick Somers (R)
117
1 Aug. 1848 JOHN PATRICK SOMERS (R) Towneley unseated on petition and new writ issued
102
James Hartley (Con)
90
John Ball (Lib)
87
1 July 1850 SIR ROBERT GORE BOOTH, bt. (Con) Resignation of FFfolliott
7 July 1852 CHARLES TOWNELEY (L(Ind.))
147
John Patrick Somers (Lib)
108
1 July 1853 JOHN SADLEIR (Lib) Towneley unseated on petition; new writ issued
150
John Patrick Somers (Lib)
142
1 July 1856 RT. HON. JOHN ARTHUR WYNNE (Con) Death of Sadleir
148
John Patrick Somers (Lib)
117
27 Mar. 1857 JOHN PATRICK SOMERS (Lib)
150
RT. HON. JOHN ARTHUR WYNNE (Con)
144