South Kildare (UK Parliament constituency)

South Kildare
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1922
Number of members	One
Created from	Kildare

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

Prior to the 1885 general election the area was part of the Kildare constituency. From 1922 it was not represented in the UK Parliament.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the southern part of County Kildare.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1885, November 26	James Leahy	Irish Parliamentary	Party split
	1890, December 1		Irish National League
	1892, July 13	Matthew Joseph Minch	Irish National Federation
	1900, October 3		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

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References

• 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 "K"