East_Tipperary_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
East Tipperary (UK Parliament constituency)
Former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland
East Tipperary 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 Tipperary (UK Parliament constituency). From 1922, on the establishment of the Irish Free State, it was not represented in the UK Parliament.
| East Tipperary | |
|---|---|
| Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
| 1885–1922 | |
| Seats | 1 |
| Created from | Tipperary |
| Replaced by | Waterford–Tipperary East |
This constituency comprised the eastern part of County Tipperary. In 1918, the boundaries were extended to include those parts of the urban districts of Clonmel and Carrick-on-Suir that had been transferred to South Tipperary from County Waterford as a result of the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.
1885–1918: The baronies of Iffa and Offa East and Middlethird, and that part of the barony of Slievardagh not contained within the constituency of Mid Tipperary.
1918–1922: The existing constituency of East Tipperary, together with that part of the existing East Waterford constituency contained in the administrative county of Tipperary.
| Election | Member | Party | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885, December 1 | Thomas Condon | Irish Parliamentary | Party split | |
| 1890, December[lower-alpha 1] | Anti-Parnellite | Joined new organisation | ||
| 1891, March 1 | Irish National Federation | Re-elected as an IPP candidate | ||
| 1900, October 2 | Irish Parliamentary | |||
| 1918, December 14[lower-alpha 2] | Pierce McCan | Sinn Féin | Did not take his seat at Westminster | |
| 1919, March 6[lower-alpha 3] | vacant | |||
| 1922, October 26 | UK constituency abolished | |||
- Notes
- 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.
Elections in the 1880s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish Parliamentary | Thomas Condon | 4,064 | 95.5 | ||
| Irish Conservative | Fitzgibbon Trant | 192 | 4.5 | ||
| Majority | 3,872 | 91.0 | |||
| Turnout | 4,256 | 61.7 | |||
| Registered electors | 6,899 | ||||
| Irish Parliamentary win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish Parliamentary | Thomas Condon | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 6,899 | ||||
| Irish Parliamentary hold | |||||
Elections in the 1890s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish National Federation | Thomas Condon | 2,998 | 77.1 | N/A | |
| Irish National League | Patrick Richard Dennehy | 891 | 22.9 | N/A | |
| Majority | 2,107 | 54.2 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 3,889 | 54.2 | N/A | ||
| Registered electors | 7,180 | ||||
| Irish National Federation gain from Irish Parliamentary | Swing | N/A | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish National Federation | Thomas Condon | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 6,521 | ||||
| Irish National Federation hold | |||||
Elections in the 1900s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish Parliamentary | Thomas Condon | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 6,366 | ||||
| Irish Parliamentary hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish Parliamentary | Thomas Condon | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 5,279 | ||||
| Irish Parliamentary hold | |||||
Elections in the 1910s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish Parliamentary | Thomas Condon | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 5,610 | ||||
| Irish Parliamentary hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish Parliamentary | Thomas Condon | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 5,610 | ||||
| Irish Parliamentary hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sinn Féin | Pierce McCan | 7,487 | 61.0 | New | |
| Irish Parliamentary | Thomas Condon | 4,794 | 39.0 | N/A | |
| Majority | 2,693 | 22.0 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 12,281 | 75.7 | N/A | ||
| Registered electors | 16,232 | ||||
| Sinn Féin gain from Irish Parliamentary | Swing | N/A | |||
- Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 375, 396. ISBN 0901714127.
- Walker, Brian M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922. Royal Irish Academy.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 1)
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