Kilkenny City (UK Parliament constituency)

Kilkenny City
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1801 (1801)–1918 (1918)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	North Kilkenny

Kilkenny City was an Irish Borough constituency in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament (MP). It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801, and remained in existence until its abolition for the 1918 general election.

Boundaries

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1801, January 1	William Talbot		1801: Co-opted. Resigned.
	1802, March 2	Richard Archdall
	1802, July 22	Hon. Charles Harward Butler	Whig	Resigned
	1809, February 4	Robert Williams
	1812, October 24	Overington Blunden		Resigned
	1814, May 27	Hon. Charles Harward Butler	Whig
	1820, April 7	Rt Hon. Denis Browne	Tory
	1826, June 22	John Doherty
	1830, August 11	Nicholas Philpot Leader	Whig
	1832, December 13	Richard Sullivan	Repeal Association	Re-elected as a candidate of a Liberal/Repealer pact
	1835, January 10	Richard Sullivan	Liberal	Resigned
	1836, May 17	Daniel O'Connell	Repeal Association
	1837, August 7	Joseph Hume	Liberal
	1841, July 3	John O'Connell	Repeal Association	1847: Also returned by and elected to sit for Limerick
	1847, December 18	Michael Sullivan	Repeal Association	Re-elected as a Liberal candidate
	1852, July 10		Liberal	Joined the Independent Irish Party
	1852		Independent Irish	Re-elected as a Liberal candidate
	1859, May 5		Liberal
	1865, July 13	Sir John Gray	Liberal	Re-elected as a Home Rule League candidate
	1874, February 2	Sir John Gray	Home Rule League	Died
	1875, April 28	Benjamin Whitworth	Home Rule League	Resigned
	1880, February 26	John Francis Smithwick	Home Rule League
	1882	John Francis Smithwick	Irish Parliamentary Party
	1886	Thomas Quinn	Irish Parliamentary Party
	1890		Parnellite
	1891–1892		Anti-Parnellite
	1892–1895	Thomas Bartholomew Curran	Anti-Parnellite
	1895	Patrick O'Brien	Parnellite
	1900–1917	Patrick O'Brien	Irish Parliamentary Party
	1917	W. T. Cosgrave	Sinn Féin
1918		constituency abolished

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)
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2)

Parliamentary constituencies in County Kilkenny

Parliament of Ireland to 1800	Callan (????–1800) · Gowran (????–1800) · Inistioge (????–1800) · Knocktopher (????–1800) · Kilkenny City (????–1800) · Kilkenny County (????–1800) · St Canice (????–1800) · Thomastown (????–1800)

Westminster 1801–1922 and First Dáil 1918	County Kilkenny (1801–1885) · Kilkenny City (1801–1885) · North Kilkenny (1885–1922) · South Kilkenny (1885–1922)

Dáil Éireann 1918–present	Carlow–Kilkenny (1921–1937, 1948– ) · Kilkenny (1937–1948)

European Parliament 1979–present	Leinster (1979–2004) · East (2004– )

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