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.

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

General Election 26 November 1885: Kildare South
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Irish Nationalist	James Leahy	unopposed
Turnout			5,070
	Irish Nationalist gain from new seat		Swing

General Election 13 July 1892: Kildare South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Irish National Federation	Matthew Joseph Minch	2,642	73.0	N/A
	Parnellite Nationalist	James Leahy	975	27.0	N/A
Majority			1,667	46.0	N/A
Turnout			5,973	60.6	N/A
	Irish National Federation gain from Irish Nationalist		Swing

General Election 18 July 1895: Kildare South
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Irish National Federation	Matthew Joseph Minch	unopposed
Turnout			6,011
	Irish National Federation hold		Swing

General Election 3 October 1900: Kildare South
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Irish Nationalist	Matthew Joseph Minch	unopposed
Turnout			7,573
	Irish Nationalist gain from Irish National Federation		Swing

General Election 14 December 1918: Kildare South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Sinn Féin	Art O'Connor	7,104	82.1
	Irish Nationalist	Denis Kilbride	1,545	17.9
Majority			5,559	64.2	N/A
Turnout			13,925	62.1
	Sinn Féin gain from Irish Nationalist		Swing

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"

Parliamentary constituencies in County Kildare

Dáil Éireann
1921–present

Historic	Kildare–Wicklow (1921–23) Kildare (1923–37, 1948–2002) Carlow–Kildare (1937–48)

Current	Kildare North (2002–) Kildare South (2002–)

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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