East Tipperary (UK Parliament constituency)

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East Tipperary
County constituency
Created: 1885
Abolished: 1922
Type: House of Commons
Members: One

East Tipperary was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament 1885-1922.

Prior to the United Kingdom general election, 1885 the area was part of the Tipperary (UK Parliament constituency). From 1922 it was not represented in the UK Parliament.

Contents

[edit] Boundaries

This constituency comprised the eastern part of County Tipperary.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election Member Party Note
1885, December 1 Thomas Joseph Condon Irish Parliamentary Party split
1890, December 1 Anti-Parnellite Joined new organisation
1891, March 1 Irish National Federation Re-elected as an IPP candidate
1900, October 2 Irish Parliamentary
1918, December 14 2 Pierce McCann Sinn Féin Did not take his seat at Westminster
1922, October 26 UK constituency abolished

Notes:-

  • 1 Not an election, but the date of a party change. The Irish Parliamentary Party had been created in 1882, on the initiative of Charles Stewart Parnell's Irish National League. Both the IPP and the INL split into Parnellite and Anti-Parnellite factions, in December 1890. The Parnellites remained members of the Irish National League after the split and the Anti-Parnellites organised the Irish National Federation in March 1891. The two organisations and the United Irish League merged in 1900, to re-create the Irish Parliamentary Party.
  • 2 Date of polling day. The result was declared on 28 December 1918, to allow time for votes cast by members of the armed forces to be included in the count.

[edit] Elections

[edit] References

  • Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)