Leitrim (UK Parliament constituency)

Leitrim
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Replaced by	North Leitrim, South Leitrim
1918–1922
Created from	North Leitrim, South Leitrim

Leitrim was a Parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) from 1801 to 1885 and one from 1918 to 1922.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Leitrim.

Election	1st Member		1st Party		2nd Party
1801		Nathaniel Clements, Viscount Clements, later Earl of Leitrim	Whig	Theophilus Jones	Tory
1802			Whig	Peter La Touche
1805 by-election		Henry John Clements	Tory	Peter La Touche
1806				William Gore
1807				John La Touche
1818		Luke White		John La Touche
1820		Luke White		John Marcus Clements
1824 by-election		Samuel White	Liberal/Whig	John Marcus Clements
1826				Robert Clements, Viscount Clements
1830				John Marcus Clements	Liberal/Whig
1832				Robert Clements, Viscount Clements	Liberal
1839 by-election				William Clements, Viscount Clements, later Earl of Leitrim	Liberal
1847		Edward King Tenison	Liberal	Charles Skeffington Clements	Liberal
1852		Hugh Lyons Montgomery	Conservative	John Brady	Independent Liberal
1857		Hugh Lyons Montgomery	Conservative		Independent Opposition
1858 by-election		William Ormsby-Gore, later Baron Harlech	Conservative		Independent Opposition
1859					Liberal
1865
1868
1874					Home Rule
1876 by-election		Francis O'Beirne	Home Rule		Home Rule
1880		Francis O'Beirne	Home Rule	Arthur Loftus Tottenham	Conservative
1885	Constituency divided: see North Leitrim and South Leitrim

Election		Member	Party	Note
1918		Single member constituency created
	1918, December 14^[1]	James Nicholas Dolan	Sinn Féin	Did not take his seat at Westminster
1922, October 26		UK constituency abolished

↑ December 14 was the 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.

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 "L" (part 2)

Parliamentary constituencies in County Leitrim

Dáil Éireann
1918–present

Historic	Leitrim–Roscommon North (1921–23) Leitrim–Sligo (1923–37) Leitrim (1937–48) Donegal–Leitrim (1969–77) Roscommon–Leitrim (1969–81) Sligo–North Leitrim (2007–16) Roscommon–South Leitrim (2007–16)
Current	Sligo–Leitrim (1948–2007, 2016–)

Constituencies in Ireland by county
Republic of Ireland	Carlow Cavan Clare Cork Donegal Dublin Galway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Laois Leitrim Limerick Longford Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan Offaly Roscommon Sligo Tipperary Waterford Westmeath Wexford Wicklow
Northern Ireland	Antrim Armagh Down Fermanagh Londonderry Tyrone

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