West Cavan (UK Parliament constituency)

West Cavan
West Cavan
	Former County constituency; for the House of Commons
1885–1922
Number of members	One
Created from	Cavan

West Cavan was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which from 1885 to 1922 returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Prior to 1885 the area was part of the Cavan constituency. After 1922 the area was not represented in the UK Parliament.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the western part of County Cavan.

Election	Member		Party
1885		Joseph Biggar	Nationalist
1890(b)		Edmund Vesey Knox	Nationalist
1892		Edmund Vesey Knox	Anti-Parnellite Nationalist
1895(b)^[1]		James Patrick Farrell	Anti-Parnellite Nationalist
1900		Thomas McGovern	Nationalist
1904(b)		Vincent Kennedy	Nationalist
1918		Paul Galligan	Sinn Féin
1922	Constituency abolished: See Cavan (Dáil constituency).

General Election 8 December 1885: Cavan West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Irish Parliamentary	Joseph Biggar	6,425	78.3	N/A
	Irish Conservative	Samuel Saunderson	1,779	21.7	N/A
Majority			4,646	56.6	N/A
Turnout			8,204	81.2	N/A
Registered electors			10,109
	Irish Parliamentary win (new seat)

General Election 14 July 1892: Cavan West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Irish National Federation	Edmund Vesey Knox	6,458	76.8	N/A
	Irish Unionist	Nugent Talbot Everard	1,950	23.2	N/A
Majority			4,508	53.6	N/A
Turnout			8,408	77.5	N/A
Registered electors			10,856
	Irish National Federation gain from Irish Parliamentary		Swing	N/A

General Election 16 July 1895: Cavan West
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Irish National Federation	Edmund Vesey Knox	Unopposed
Registered electors			10,439
	Irish National Federation hold

By-election 2 August 1895: Cavan West
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Irish National Federation	James Patrick Farrell	Unopposed
Registered electors			10,439
	Irish National Federation hold

General Election 14 December 1918: Cavan West
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Sinn Féin	Peter Paul Gilligan	Unopposed
Registered electors			22270
	Sinn Féin gain from Irish Parliamentary

↑ At the 1895 general election, Knox was elected for both West Cavan and for Londonderry City. He chose to sit for Londonderry, triggering a by-election in West Cavan.

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 3)
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)
The Anglo-Celt 150th Anniversary Souvenir Supplement (dated 30 May 1996).

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