South Kildare (UK Parliament constituency) explained

South Kildare
Type:	county
Parliament:	uk
Year:	1885
Abolished:	1922
Seats:	1
Previous:	Kildare
Next:	Kildare–Wicklow

South Kildare was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament from 1885 to 1922.

Prior to the 1885 general election the area was part of the Kildare constituency. From 1922, on the establishment of the Irish Free State, it was not represented in the UK Parliament.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the southern part of County Kildare.

1885–1922: The baronies of East Offaly, Kicullen, Kilkea and Moone, Narragh and Reban East, and Narragh and Reban West, and that part of the barony of South Naas not contained within the North Kildare constituency.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1885, November 26	James Leahy	Irish Parliamentary	Party split
	1890, December ¹	James Leahy	Irish National League
	1892, July 13	Matthew Minch	Irish National Federation
	1900, October 3	Matthew Minch	Irish Parliamentary	Resigned
	1903, May 23	Denis Kilbride	Irish Parliamentary
	1918, December 14 ²	Art O'Connor	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.

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

References

Book: Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922. Brian M.. Walker. Royal Irish Academy. 1978. Dublin. 0901714127.