Queen's County (UK Parliament constituency)

Queen's County was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament from 1801 to 1885 and one from 1918 to 1922.

Boundaries This constituency comprised the whole of Queen's County, now known as County Laois, except for the parliamentary borough of Portarlington 1801–1885.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1801–1885 Year1st Member1st Party2nd Member2nd Party 1801 Sir John Parnell, Bt Charles Coote 1801, 28 December Hon. William Wellesley-Pole Tory 1802, 5 April Henry Parnell Whig 1802, 23 July Sir Eyre Coote 1806, 17 February Sir Henry Parnell Whig 1821, 27 August Sir Charles Coote, Bt Tory 1832, 24 December Patrick Lalor Repeal Association 1834, 18 December Conservative 1835, 20 January Hon. Thomas Vesey Conservative 1837, 15 August John FitzPatrick Whig 1841, 10 July Hon. Thomas Vesey Conservative 1847, 7 August John FitzPatrick Whig 1852, 19 July Michael Dunne Ind. Irish Sir Charles Coote, Bt Conservative 1857, 11 April Whig 1859, 10 May Liberal Francis Plunkett Dunne Conservative 1865, 22 July John FitzPatrick Liberal 1868, 23 November Kenelm Thomas Digby Liberal 1870, 4 January Edmund Dease Liberal 1874, 7 February Home Rule League Home Rule League 1880, 8 April Richard Lalor Arthur O'Connor 1885 Constituency divided: see Queen's County Leix and Queen's County Ossory

MPs 1918–1922 ElectionMemberPartyNote1918 Single member constituency created 1918, 14 December 1 Kevin O'Higgins Sinn Féin Did not take his seat at Westminster1922, 26 October UK constituency abolished

Note:- 1 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 1830s

Parnell was appointed as Secretary of State for War, requiring a by-election.

Elections in the 1840s

Elections in the 1850s

Elections in the 1860s

Elections in the 1870s FitzPatrick was made Lord Castletown, causing a by-election.

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Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1910s

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)