South Wexford (UK Parliament constituency)

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South Wexford County constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1922
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	One

South Wexford was a former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament 1885-1922.

Prior to 1885 the area was part of the Wexford County (UK Parliament constituency). After 1922 the area was not represented in the UK Parliament.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

This constituency comprised the southern part of County Wexford.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1885, November 25	John Barry	Irish Parliamentary	Party split
	1890, December 1		Anti-Parnellite	Joined new organisation
	1891, March 1		Irish National Federation	Resigned
	1893, November 30	Peter Ffrench	Irish National Federation	Re-elected as an IPP candidate
	1900, October 4		Irish Parliamentary	Resigned
	1918, December 14 2	Dr James Ryan	Sinn Féin	Did not take his seat at Westminster
1922, October 26		UK constituency abolished

Note:-

• 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

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