South Meath (UK Parliament constituency)

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

South Meath was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament (MP) 1885–1922.

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

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the southern part of County Meath.

United Kingdom general election, 1918^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Sinn Féin	Edmund John Duggan	6,371	70.4
	Irish Parliamentary	Thomas O'Donoghue	2,680	29.6
Majority			3,691	40.8
Turnout			9,051	61.5
	Sinn Féin gain from Irish Parliamentary		Swing

South Meath by-election, 1903
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Irish Parliamentary	David Sheehy	2,245	68.5
	Independent Nationalist	John Howard Parnell	1,031	31.5
Majority			1,214	1.8
Turnout
	Irish Parliamentary gain from Independent Nationalist		Swing

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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 "M" (part 2)

Parliamentary constituencies in County Meath

Dáil Éireann
1918–present

Historic	Louth–Meath (1921–23) Meath (1923–37, 1948–2007) Meath–Westmeath (1937–48)

Current	Meath East (2007–) Meath West (2007–)

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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