Kildare (UK Parliament constituency)

Kildare
Kildare
	Former County constituency; for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	North Kildare and South Kildare

A former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Kildare.

Members of Parliament

	First member	First party	Second member	Second party
1801, 1 January	Maurice Keatinge		John La Touche	Whig
1802, 20 July	Lord Robert FitzGerald	Whig	Robert La Touche
1806, 21 November	Lord Robert FitzGerald	Whig		Whig
1807, 21 May	Lord Henry FitzGerald ^[1]	Whig
1813, 23 March	Lord William FitzGerald	Whig^[2]
1830, 18 August	Lord William FitzGerald	Whig^[2]	Richard More O'Ferrall ^[3]	Whig^[2]
1831, 9 May	Sir Josiah Hort, Bt	Whig^[2]
1832, 21 December	Edward Ruthven ^[4]	Repeal Association^[2]^[5]
1837, 11 August	Robert Archbold	Whig^[2]
1847, 18 August	Charles FitzGerald	Whig^[6]^[7]^[8]	Richard Bourke	Conservative^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]
1852, 13 March	Charles FitzGerald	Whig^[6]^[7]^[8]	William Cogan	Radical^[9]^[10]
1852, 26 July	David O'Connor Henchy	Ind. Irish^[5]		Ind. Irish^[5]
1857, 7 April	David O'Connor Henchy	Whig^[11]		Radical^[9]^[10]
1859, 19 May	Richard More O'Ferrall ^[12]	Whig		Radical^[9]^[10]
1859, 6 June	Richard More O'Ferrall ^[12]	Liberal		Liberal
1865, 19 July	Lord Otho FitzGerald ^[13]	Liberal
1874, 12 February	Charles Henry Meldon ^[14]	Home Rule League
1880, 5 April		Home Rule League	James Leahy ^[15]	Home Rule League
1882		Irish Parliamentary	James Leahy ^[15]	Irish Parliamentary

↑ Resigned, 1813
1 2 3 4 5 Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. pp. 229–230. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via Google Books.
↑ Re-elected in a by-election, on 26 May 1835, after being appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury.
↑ Re-elected in the 1835 general election, as a candidate of a Whig/Repealer electoral pact
1 2 3 4
1 2 "County of Kildare". Dublin Evening Packet and Correspondent. 19 August 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
1 2 The Protestant Elector. p. 197. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via Google Books.
1 2 "General Election". London Evening Standard. 18 August 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
1 2 "Ireland". London Evening Standard. 1 March 1852. p. 1. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
1 2 "The Evening Freeman". 4 March 1852. pp. 2–3. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
↑ "Defeat of the Ministry". Wexford Independent. 7 March 1857. p. 2. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
↑ Became a Liberal on the formal creation of that party, soon after the 1859 general election.
↑ Re-elected in a by-election, on 21 May 1866, after being appointed Treasurer of the Household. Re-elected in a by-election, on 11 January 1869, after being appointed Comptroller of the Household.
↑ Became a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, when it was created in 1882.
↑ A supporter of the Parnellite faction of the Home Rule League, at the 1880 general election. Became a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, when it was created in 1882.

Elections

Elections in the 1850s

Bourke was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, requiring a by-election.

By-election, 13 March 1852: Kildare^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Radical	William Cogan	Unopposed
	Radical gain from Conservative

General Election 1852: Kildare^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent Irish	William Cogan	1,431	41.6
	Independent Irish	David O'Connor Henchy	1,392	40.5
	Conservative	Charles Edward Bayly Kennedy	616	17.9
Majority			776	22.6
Turnout			2,028 (est)	73.1 (est)
Registered electors			2,774
	Independent Irish gain from Whig		Swing
	Independent Irish gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1857: Kildare^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Radical	William Cogan	Unopposed
	Whig	David O'Connor Henchy	Unopposed
Registered electors			3,080
	Radical gain from Independent Irish
	Whig gain from Independent Irish

General Election 1859: Kildare^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	William Cogan	Unopposed
	Liberal	Richard More O'Ferrall	Unopposed
Registered electors			3,143
	Liberal hold
	Liberal hold

Elections in the 1860s

General Election 1865: Kildare^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	William Cogan	Unopposed
	Liberal	Otho FitzGerald	Unopposed
Registered electors			3,055
	Liberal hold
	Liberal hold

FitzGerald was appointed Treasurer of the Household, requiring a by-election.

By-election, 21 May 1866: Kildare^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Otho FitzGerald	Unopposed
Registered electors			3,055
	Liberal hold

General Election 1868: Kildare^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	William Cogan	Unopposed
	Liberal	Otho FitzGerald	Unopposed
Registered electors			2,999
	Liberal hold
	Liberal hold

Fitzgerald was appointed Comptroller of the Household, requiring a by-election.

By-election, 11 January 1869: Kildare^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Otho FitzGerald	Unopposed
Registered electors			2,999
	Liberal hold

Elections in the 1870s

General Election 1874: Kildare^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Home Rule	Charles Henry Meldon	1,296	40.3
	Liberal	William Cogan	964	30.0
	Liberal	Otho FitzGerald	727	22.6
	Home Rule	Hill Falconer Morgan^[2]	226	7.0
Turnout			1,607 (est)	54.8 (est)
Registered electors			2,930
Majority			332	10.3	N/A
	Home Rule gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A
Majority			738	23.0
	Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1880: Kildare^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Home Rule	Charles Henry Meldon	1,245	38.6	−1.7
	Home Rule League (Parnellite)	James Leahy	1,004	31.1	+24.1
	Liberal	Richard More O'Ferrall	684	21.2	−8.8
	Home Rule	Alfred W Harris	295	9.1	−13.5
Majority			320	9.9	−0.4
Turnout			1,929 (est)	69.1 (est)	+14.3
Registered electors			2,793
	Home Rule hold		Swing	+3.6
	Home Rule gain from Liberal		Swing	+18.8

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)
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" (part 1)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.
↑ "The General Election". Freeman's Journal. 7 February 1874. p. 3. Retrieved 19 February 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).

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[1] Resigned, 1813

[stookssmith1842-2] 1 2 3 4 5 Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. pp. 229–230. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via Google Books.

[3] Re-elected in a by-election, on 26 May 1835, after being appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury.

[4] Re-elected in the 1835 general election, as a candidate of a Whig/Repealer electoral pact

[walker-5] 1 2 3 4

[dublin1847-6] 1 2 "County of Kildare". Dublin Evening Packet and Correspondent. 19 August 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).

[protestant1847-7] 1 2 The Protestant Elector. p. 197. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via Google Books.

[standard1847-8] 1 2 "General Election". London Evening Standard. 18 August 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).

[standard1852-9] 1 2 "Ireland". London Evening Standard. 1 March 1852. p. 1. Retrieved 2 October 2018.

[freeman1852-10] 1 2 "The Evening Freeman". 4 March 1852. pp. 2–3. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).

[11] "Defeat of the Ministry". Wexford Independent. 7 March 1857. p. 2. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).

[12] Became a Liberal on the formal creation of that party, soon after the 1859 general election.

[13] Re-elected in a by-election, on 21 May 1866, after being appointed Treasurer of the Household. Re-elected in a by-election, on 11 January 1869, after being appointed Comptroller of the Household.

[14] Became a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, when it was created in 1882.

[15] A supporter of the Parnellite faction of the Home Rule League, at the 1880 general election. Became a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, when it was created in 1882.

[walker-16] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.

[17] "The General Election". Freeman's Journal. 7 February 1874. p. 3. Retrieved 19 February 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).

Kildare
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	North Kildare and South Kildare