County Westmeath is a former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament from 1801 to 1885 and one from 1918 to 1922.
Boundaries This constituency comprised County Westmeath, except for the parliamentary borough of Athlone 1801–1885.
Members of Parliament MPs 1801–1885 YearFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party1801, 1 JanuaryWilliam SmythResigned, 1808 Gustavus Hume RochfortDied in office, 1824 Tory1808, 27 February Hon. Hercules Robert Pakenham Tory1812, 24 October Tory 1824, 3 March Robert Smyth Tory1826, 22 June Gustavus Rochfort Tory Hugh Morgan Tuite Whig1830, 12 August Sir Montagu Chapman, Bt Whig1832, 20 DecemberSir Richard Nagle, BtRe-elected as a candidate of a Whig Party/Repeal Association electoral pact, in 1835 and 1837. Repeal Association 1841, 12 July Hugh Morgan Tuite Whig Benjamin Chapman Whig 1847, 10 August William Henry Magan Repeal Association Sir Percy Nugent, Bt Whig 1852, 22 July Ind. Irish William Pollard-Urquhart Ind. Irish 1857, 3 April Whig Sir Richard Levinge, Bt. Ind. Irish 1859, 10 May William Pollard-Urquhart Liberal Liberal 1865, 20 July Hon. Algernon Greville-Nugent (later Baron Greville) Liberal 1871, 17 July Patrick James Smyth Home Rule 1874, 13 February Lord Robert Montagu Home Rule 1880, 13 April Timothy Daniel Sullivan Henry Joseph Gill Oct 1882 Irish ParliamentaryIrish Parliamentary 1883, 27 February Timothy Harrington Irish Parliamentary 1885 Constituency abolished: see North Westmeath and South Westmeath
MPs 1918–1922
ElectionMemberParty 1918 Laurence Ginnell Sinn Féin 1922 constituency abolished
Elections Elections in the 1830s
Elections in the 1840s
Elections in the 1850s
Elections in the 1860s
Greville-Nugent was appointed a Groom in Waiting to Queen Victoria, requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1870s Pollard-Urquhart's death caused a by-election.
Elections in the 1880s
Gill resigned, causing a by-election.
Election in the 1910s
Notes
References The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844–50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)