Waterford was one of the 31 boroughs which were selected to retain parliamentary representation, and a ballot was held to choose which of each borough's MPs should be co-opted as the initial holder of the single seat which would be allocated to them in the new parliament.
Alcock was chosen by ballot as Waterford's first Westminster MP, in preference to his colleague Robert Shapland Carew.
[4] He had beaten Sir John Newport by 471 votes to 470,[5] but an election petition was lodged.
The petition was upheld, and on 1 December 1803 Alcock was unseated and Newport declared elected.
You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This article about a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, for a constituency in Ireland between 1801 and 1922 is a stub.