Queen's County (UK Parliament constituency)

Queen's County
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Replaced by	Queen's County Leix and Queen's County Ossory
1918–1922
Created from	Queen's County Leix and Queen's County Ossory

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

Boundaries

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

Year	1st Member		1st Party		2nd Party
1801		Sir John Parnell, Bt		Charles Coote
1801, 28 December		Hon. William Wellesley-Pole	Tory	Charles Coote
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	Conservative	Sir Henry Parnell	Whig
1832, 24 December				Patrick Lalor	Repeal Association
1835, 20 January				Hon. Thomas Vesey	Conservative
1837, 15 August				John FitzPatrick	Whig
1841, 10 July		Hon. Thomas Vesey	Conservative	Sir Charles Coote, Bt	Conservative
1847, 7 August		Hon. Thomas Vesey	Conservative	John FitzPatrick	Whig
1852, 19 July		Michael Dunne	Irish Brigade	Sir Charles Coote, Bt	Conservative
1859, 10 May		Michael Dunne	Liberal	Francis Plunkett Dunne	Conservative
1865, 22 July		John FitzPatrick	Liberal	Francis Plunkett Dunne	Conservative
1868, 23 November		John FitzPatrick	Liberal	Kenelm Thomas Digby	Liberal
1870, 4 January		Edmund Dease^[1]		Kenelm Thomas Digby	Liberal
1880, 8 April		Richard Lalor	Home Rule League	Arthur O'Connor	Irish Parliamentary Party
1885	Constituency divided: see Queen's County Leix and Queen's County Ossory

Election		Member	Party	Note
1918		Single member constituency created
	1918, December 14 ¹	Kevin Christopher O'Higgins	Sinn Féin	Did not take his seat at Westminster
1922, October 26		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.

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↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 20, 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2007. The Gratton Connection

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 "Q"

Parliamentary constituencies in County Laois

Portarlington (1801–85)
Queen's County (1801–85)
Queen's County Leix (1885–1918)
Queen's County Ossory (1885–1918)
Queen's County (1918–22)

Dáil Éireann
1921–present

Constituencies in Ireland by county

Republic of Ireland	Carlow Cavan Clare Cork Donegal Dublin Galway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Laois Leitrim Limerick Longford Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan Offaly Roscommon Sligo Tipperary Waterford Westmeath Wexford Wicklow

Northern Ireland	Antrim Armagh Down Fermanagh Londonderry Tyrone

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