Scottish and Irish Whigs and Tories

Does anyone know in the parliament of first Great Britain and then the UK, what was the balance of Whigs and Tories in (a) Scottish constituencies and (b) Irish constituencies. I'm trying to work out which party gained political advantage from the unions.
 
Here is information in respect of general elections from 1832 to 1918 inclusive which I have taken from the book British Electoral Facts 1832-1987, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig.

Scotland: The Whigs/Liberals won a majority of Scottish seats in all general elections from 1832 to 1895 inclusive. The Tories/Conservatives won a bare majority - 36 to 34 - in the general election of 1900. The Liberals had a majority in general elections from 1906 to December 1910 inclusive. In the general election of 1918 the Conservatives won 30 seats, the Coalition Liberals 25 seats, and the Independent Liberals 8 seats.

Ireland: 1832 - Tory 28 seats, Whig 33 seats, Repeal candidates 42 seats
1835 and 1837 the Whigs won a majority of the seats
1841 - Conservative 41 seats, Whig 42 seats, Repeal 20 seats
1847 - Conservative [including Peelites] 40 seats, Whig 25 seats, Repeal 36 seats, others 2 seats
1852 the Whigs won an overall majority of seats
1857 - Conservative [including Peelites] 42 seats, Whigs - 48 seats, Others - 13 seats
1859 - Conservative majority of seats
1865 and 1868 - Liberal majority of seats
1874 to 1918 inclusive - Home Rule/Irish Nationalist/Sinn Fein candidates won a majority of seats. In all these elections more Conservatives than Liberals were elected.
 
Pipisme - you're a star! So it seems like the Whigs benefitted much more from Scotland and Ireland's incorporation into the union, at least from 1832. I wonder what the situation was before the Reform Act?
 

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I wonder what the situation was before the Reform Act?

After the Act of Union and before the Reform Act it is difficult to talk of Whigs and Tories, as the Tories degraded to a useless appendix for the most part (the Tories pipisme mentions above were an unrelated party given the same name initially as an insult by their opponents) and partisanship was more based on different factions within the Whigs.

Some brave soul on Wikipedia has made a map of the unusually decisive post-American Revolution British election of 1784, and puts it in terms of 'Government and Opposition'. The Government led by William Pitt the Younger described itself as a Whig faction, but eventually became the new Tories as the Opposition tarred them with that name.

Red-- Government (Pittite Whigs)
Buff-- Opposition (Other Whigs)
Blue-grey-- Independent/Nonpartisan
Purple-- Party identity uncertain
Grey-- Seat vacant

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After the Act of Union and before the Reform Act it is difficult to talk of Whigs and Tories, as the Tories degraded to a useless appendix for the most part (the Tories pipisme mentions above were an unrelated party given the same name initially as an insult by their opponents) and partisanship was more based on different factions within the Whigs.

Some brave soul on Wikipedia has made a map of the unusually decisive post-American Revolution British election of 1784, and puts it in terms of 'Government and Opposition'. The Government led by William Pitt the Younger described itself as a Whig faction, but eventually became the new Tories as the Opposition tarred them with that name.

Red-- Government (Pittite Whigs)
Buff-- Opposition (Other Whigs)
Blue-grey-- Independent/Nonpartisan
Purple-- Party identity uncertain
Grey-- Seat vacant

Ah, Britain. Birthplace of decisive, FPTP parliamentary democracy.
 
Pipisme - you're a star! So it seems like the Whigs benefitted much more from Scotland and Ireland's incorporation into the union, at least from 1832. I wonder what the situation was before the Reform Act?

Thank you for the compliment.

In Scotland a majority of candidates were elected unopposed in the general elections of 1841, 1847, 1852, 1857, 1859 [45 out of 53] and 1865. In Ireland a majority of candidates were elected unopposed in the general elections of 1837, 1841, 1847, 1859, 1865, 1868, 1886 and from 1895 to December 1910 inclusive.

In Ireland the Liberal vote collapsed with the formation of the Home Rule Party. In 1868 it was 57.9% of the Irish vote, in 1874 it had fallen to 18.4%, rising to 22.7% in 1880, then collapsing to 6.8% in 1885.
 
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