Background Information
Constituency business
County
Date Candidate Votes
10 Dec. 1832 LORD ARTHUR CHICHESTER (Lib)
834
JAMES EMERSON TENNENT (Lib)
723
Robert James Tennent (L(R))
625
William Sharman Crawford (Lib)
616
6 Jan. 1835 JAMES EMERSON TENNENT (Con)
773
JOHN MCCANCE (Lib)
719
Lord Arthur Chichester (Con)
713
John French (Lib)
3
1 July 1835 GEORGE DUNBAR (Con) Death of McCance
162
Robert James Tenment (Lib)
82
24 July 1837 JAMES GIBSON (Lib)
941
EARL OF BELFAST (GEORGE HAMILTON CHICHESTER) (Lib)
922
James Emerson Tennent (Con)
901
George Dunbar (Con)
869
29 June 1841 JAMES EMERSON TENNENT (Con)
927
WILLIAM GILLILAN JOHNSON (Con)
913
Earl Of Belfast (George Hamilton Chichester) (Lib)
821
David Robert Ross (Lib)
792
1 July 1842 DAVID ROBERT ROSS (Lib) Tennent and Johnson unseated on petition; new writ issued
886
JAMES EMERSON TENNENT (Con)
859
Lord Hamilton Francis Chichester (Con)
500
1 July 1845 LORD JOHN LUDFORD CHICHESTER (Con) Resignation of Tennent
29 July 1847 ROBERT JAMES TENNENT (Lib)
929
LORD JOHN LUDFORD CHICHESTER (P)
747
George Suffern (Con)
689
7 July 1852 RICHARD DAVISON (Con)
1,259
HUGH MCCALMONT CAIRNS (Con)
1,193
Robert James Tennent (Lib)
904
27 Mar. 1857 HUGH MCCALMONT CAIRNS, Q.C. (Con)
1,479
RICHARD DAVISON (Con)
1,410
John Robinson McClean (Lib)
995
John Francis Ferguson (Lib)
733
Thomas McClure (Lib)
566
1 July 1858 CAIRNS (Con) Appt. of Cairns as S.G.
28 Apr. 1859 SIR HUGH MCCALMONT CAIRNS, Q.C. (Con)
RICHARD DAVISON (Con)
1 July 1860 SAMUEL GIBSON GETTY (Con) Resignation of Davison
11 July 1865 SIR HUGH MCCALMONT CAIRNS, Q.C. (Con)
1,822
SAMUEL GIBSON GETTY (Con)
1,728
Lord John Hay (Lib)
991
1 July 1866 CAIRNS (Con) Appt. of Cairns as A.G. for England
1 Aug. 1866 CHARLES LANYON (Con) Appt. of Cairns as lord justice of appeal in chancery, England
1,263
William McMechan (Con)
13