[1] The candidates returned in contested elections are listed in the descending order of the number of votes received.
The Tory versus Whig party division, which had originated in the Exclusion Bill debates in the seventeenth century, was almost extinct by 1754.
Whilst some members were still identifiable as being of a Tory or Whig persuasion, few contested elections turned on party cries.
Peers of Ireland are differentiated from the holders of courtesy titles by including the succession number to the peerage, i.e.
The 1st Earl of Upper Ossory is an Irish peer and Viscount Dupplin is the holder of a courtesy title.