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Limerick City (UK Parliament constituency)
UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland, 1801–1922
UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland, 1801–1922
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Limerick City |
| type | borough |
| borough | Limerick |
| region | Ireland |
| county | County Limerick |
| parliament | uk |
| year | 1801 |
| abolished | 1922 |
| seats | |
| previous | Limerick City (IHC) |
| next | Limerick City–Limerick East |
|}}
Limerick City was a United Kingdom Parliament constituency in Ireland. It returned one MP 1801–1832, two MPs 1832–1885 and one thereafter. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801. It ceased to be represented in the United Kingdom Parliament in 1922.
Boundaries
This was a borough constituency, comprising the parliamentary borough of Limerick in County Limerick. After 1885, It was south of Clare East but was otherwise surrounded by Limerick East.
Members of Parliament
One member 1801–1832
| Election | Member | Party | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1801, 1 January | Henry Deane Grady | |||
| Tories (British political party)}}" | 1802, 16 July | Charles Vereker | Tory | |
| Tories (British political party)}}" | 1817, 25 July | Hon. John Vereker | Tory | |
| Whigs (British political party)}}" | 1820, 3 July | Thomas Spring Rice | Whig | |
| 1832 | Constituency allocated two seats |
Two members 1832–1885
| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Repeal Association}}" | Repeal Association}}" rowspan="2" | 1832, 21 December | William Roche | last1=Smith | first1=Henry Stooks | title=The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections | date=1842 | publisher=Simpkin, Marshall & Company | pages=232–233 | edition=Second | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VQgHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA232}} | ||
| Radicals (UK)}}" rowspan="2" | 1841, 6 July | John O'Brien | Radical | ||||||||||
| Repeal Association}}" | 1844, 9 July | James Kelly | Repeal Association | ||||||||||
| Repeal Association}}" rowspan="2" | Repeal Association}}" | 1847, 6 August | Repeal Association | John O'Connell a | |||||||||
| Independent Whig}}" | 1851, 1 August | Henry Fitzalan-Howard | Independent Whig | ||||||||||
| Independent Irish Party}}" | Whigs (British political party)}}" rowspan="4" | 1852, 15 July | Robert Potter b | Ind. Irish | |||||||||
| Whigs (British political party)}}" | 1854, 28 October | James O'Brien c | Whig | ||||||||||
| Independent Irish Party}}" | 1858, 15 February | George Gavin d | Ind. Irish | ||||||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | 1858, 21 May | James Spaight | Conservative | ||||||||||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" rowspan="2" | Liberal Party (UK)}}" | 1859, 5 May | George Gavin | Liberal | |||||||||
| Home Rule League}}" rowspan="2" | 1871, 20 September | Isaac Butt | Home Rule League | ||||||||||
| Home Rule League}}" rowspan="2" | 1874, 5 February | Richard O'Shaughnessy e | Home Rule League | ||||||||||
| Home Rule League}}" rowspan="2" | 1879, 20 September | Daniel Fitzgerald Gabbett | Home Rule League | ||||||||||
| Home Rule League}}" | 1883, 16 November | Edward McMahon | Home Rule League | ||||||||||
| 1885 | Constituency allocated one seat |
Notes:-
- a Resigned.
- b Died.
- c Appointed a Judge of the Irish Court of Queen's Bench.
- d Unseated on petition and new writ issued.
- e Appointed Registrar of Petty Sessions Clerk.
One member 1885–1922
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish Parliamentary Party}}" | 1885, 27 November | Henry Joseph Gill | |
| Irish Parliamentary Party}}" | 1888, 17 April | Francis Arthur O'Keefe | |
| Irish National Federation}}" | 1892, 7 July | Irish National Federation | |
| Irish National League}}" | 1895, 13 July | John Daly | |
| Irish National Federation}}" | 1895, 11 September | Francis Arthur O'Keefe | |
| Irish Parliamentary Party}}" | 1900, 4 October | Michael Joyce | |
| Sinn Féin}}" | 1918, 14 December | Michael Colivet | |
| 1922 | Constituency abolished |
Elections
In 1801–1832 and 1885–1922 the constituency used the first past the post electoral system to fill its one seat. In 1832–1885 the block vote was used to elect two members and first past the post to return one member at by-elections.
Elections in the 1830s
|reg. electors =
|reg. electors = 3,200
|reg. electors = 2,868
|reg. electors = 2,976
|reg. electors = 3,534
Elections in the 1840s
|reg. electors = 1,893
Roche resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.
|reg. electors = 2,063
Elections in the 1850s
O'Connell resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.
|reg. electors = 1,144
Potter's death caused a by-election.
|reg. electors = 1,913
O'Brien resigned after being appointed a judge of the Queen's Bench, causing a by-election.
|reg. electors = 1,913
On petition, Gavin was unseated, causing a by-election.
|reg. electors = 2,013
Elections in the 1860s
|reg. electors = 2,005
|reg. electors = 2,032
Elections in the 1870s
Russell's death caused a by-election.
|reg. electors = 2,193
|reg. electors = 2,004
Butt's death caused a by-election.
|reg. electors = 1,930
Elections in the 1880s
|reg. electors = 1,934
O'Shaughnessy resigned after being appointed a registrar of petty sessions clerk, causing a by-election.
|reg. electors = 1,964
For the 1885 election, the seat was reduced to one MP. |reg. electors = 6,010
Elections in the 1890s
|reg. electors = 5,084
Daly, who was serving a term of life imprisonment, was elected unopposed after the Official Nationalist candidate (O'Keefe) withdrew in his favour. As a convicted felon, Daly was not eligible to sit in the House of Commons, and the election was declared void.
|reg. electors = 5,407
Elections in the 1900s
|reg. electors = 5,297
Elections in the 1910s
|reg. electors = 4,686
|reg. electors = 4,686
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)
References
- (1842). "The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections". Simpkin, Marshall & Company.
- (1841). "The House of Commons: As Elected to the Fourteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom, Being the Second of Victoria". Saunders and Otley.
- (2 August 1847). "Freeman's Journal".
- {{cite DNB. Kent. William Charles Mark
- (24 March 1857). "Freeman's Journal".
- (11 March 1857). "Dublin Evening Mail".
- (24 January 1858). "Gavin and Ball". Kilkenny Journal, and Leinster Commercial and Literary Advertiser.
- "Limerick".
- (28 November 1868). "Limerick City". The Irishman.
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