Kildare (UK Parliament constituency)

County Kildare
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
County	County Kildare
1801–1885
Seats	2
Created from	County Kildare (IHC)
Replaced by	North Kildare and South Kildare

County Kildare is a former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two MPs to the United Kingdom House of Commons from 1801 to 1885.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Kildare.

Members of Parliament

Date			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				Whig [1]
		1807, 21 May	Lord Henry FitzGerald [2]	Whig
		1814, 23 March	Lord William FitzGerald	Whig [3]
		1830, 18 August			Richard More O'Ferrall [4]	Whig [3] [5]
		1831, 9 May	Sir Josiah Hort, Bt	Whig [3]
		1832, 21 December	Edward Ruthven [6]	Repeal Association [3] [7]
		1837, 11 August	Robert Archbold	Whig [3] [8]
		1847, 18 August	Charles FitzGerald	Whig [9] [10] [11]	Richard Bourke	Conservative [7] [9] [10] [11]
		1852, 13 March			William H. F. Cogan	Radical [12] [13]
		1852, 26 July	David O'Connor Henchy	Ind. Irish [7]		Ind. Irish [7]
		1857, 7 April		Whig [14]		Radical [12] [13]
		1859, 19 May	Richard More O'Ferrall [15]	Whig
		1859, 6 June		Liberal		Liberal
		1865, 19 July	Lord Otho FitzGerald [16]	Liberal
		1874, 12 February	Charles Henry Meldon [17]	Home Rule League
		1880, 5 April			James Leahy [18]	Home Rule League
		1882		Irish Parliamentary		Irish Parliamentary

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1830: Kildare ^{[7] [3] [19]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	Lord William FitzGerald	178	47.1
	Whig	Richard More O'Ferrall	119	31.5
	Whig	Marmaduke Cramer Roberts	81	21.4
Majority			38	10.1
Turnout			286	57.7
Registered electors			496
	Whig hold
	Whig hold

General election 1831: Kildare ^{[7] [3] [19]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	Richard More O'Ferrall	Unopposed
	Whig	Josiah Hort	Unopposed
Registered electors			496
	Whig hold
	Whig hold

General election 1832: Kildare ^{[7] [3]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Irish Repeal	Edward Ruthven	262	48.3
	Whig	Richard More O'Ferrall	216	39.9
	Whig	Josiah Hort	64	11.8
Turnout			327	29.4
Registered electors			1,112
Majority			198	36.5
	Irish Repeal gain from Whig
Majority			152	28.1
	Whig hold

General election 1835: Kildare ^{[7] [3]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Richard More O'Ferrall	446	38.2	−1.7
	Irish Repeal (Whig)	Edward Ruthven	389	33.3	−15.0
	Whig	Frederick Ponsonby	333	28.5	+16.7
Turnout			c. 584	c. 50.7	c. +21.3
Registered electors			1,152
Majority			57	4.9	−23.2
	Whig hold		Swing	+2.9
Majority			56	4.8	−31.7
	Irish Repeal hold		Swing	−15.0

O'Ferrall was appointed as a Commissioner of the Treasury, requiring a by-election.

By-election, 26 May 1835: Kildare ^{[7] [3]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	Richard More O'Ferrall	Unopposed
	Whig hold

General election 1837: Kildare ^{[7] [3]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Richard More O'Ferrall	762	44.3	+6.1
	Whig	Robert Archbold	728	42.3	+13.8
	Conservative	Robert Burke	226	13.1	New
	Irish Repeal (Whig)	Edward Ruthven	2	0.1	−33.2
	Conservative	Anthony George Lefroy	2	0.1	New
Turnout			990	70.3	c. +19.6
Registered electors			1,408
Majority			502	29.2	+24.3
	Whig hold		Swing	+11.4
	Whig gain from Irish Repeal		Swing	+15.2

Elections in the 1840s

General election 1841: Kildare ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Richard More O'Ferrall	Unopposed
	Whig	Robert Archbold	Unopposed
Registered electors			978
	Whig hold
	Whig hold

General election 1847: Kildare ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Charles FitzGerald	544	43.2	N/A
	Conservative	Richard Bourke	413	32.8	New
	Irish Repeal	John Augustus O'Neill	301	23.9	New
Turnout			629 (est)	22.6 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			2,788
Majority			131	10.4	N/A
	Whig hold		Swing	N/A
Majority			112	8.9	N/A
	Conservative gain from Whig		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1850s

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

By-election, 13 March 1852: Kildare ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Radical	William H. F. Cogan	Unopposed
	Radical gain from Conservative

General election 1852: Kildare ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Irish	William H. F. Cogan	1,431	41.6	New
	Independent Irish	David O'Connor Henchy	1,392	40.5	New
	Conservative	Sir Charles Edward Bayly Kennedy, 2nd Baronet	616	17.9	−14.9
Majority			776	22.6	N/A
Turnout			2,028 (est)	73.1 (est)	+50.5
Registered electors			2,774
	Independent Irish gain from Whig		Swing	N/A
	Independent Irish gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A

General election 1857: Kildare ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Radical	William H. F. 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 ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William H. F. Cogan	Unopposed
	Liberal	Richard More O'Ferrall	Unopposed
Registered electors			3,143
	Liberal hold
	Liberal hold

Elections in the 1860s

General election 1865: Kildare ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William H. F. 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 ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Otho FitzGerald	Unopposed
Registered electors			3,055
	Liberal hold

General election 1868: Kildare ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William H. F. 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 ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Otho FitzGerald	Unopposed
Registered electors			2,999
	Liberal hold

Elections in the 1870s

General election 1874: Kildare ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Home Rule	Charles Henry Meldon	1,296	40.3	New
	Liberal	William H. F. Cogan	964	30.0	N/A
	Liberal	Otho FitzGerald	727	22.6	N/A
	Home Rule	Hill Falconer Morgan [20]	226	7.0	New
Turnout			1,607 (est)	54.8 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			2,930
Majority			569	17.7	N/A
	Home Rule gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A
Majority			738	7.4	N/A
	Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1880: Kildare ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Home Rule	Charles Henry Meldon	1,245	38.6	−1.7
	Parnellite Home Rule League	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	N/A
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

1. Salmon, Philip. "LATOUCHE, Robert (1773-1844), of Harristown, co. Kildare". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
2. Resigned, 1813
3. 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.
4. Re-elected in a by-election, on 26 May 1835, after being appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury.
5. Churton, Edward (1838). The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer. p. 169. Retrieved 22 August 2019– via Google Books.
6. Re-elected in the 1835 general election, as a candidate of a Whig/Repealer electoral pact
7. Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 220, 285–286. ISBN   0901714127.
8. Mosse, Richard Bartholomew (1837). The Parliamentary Guide: a concise history of the Members of both Houses, etc. p. 130. Retrieved 22 August 2019– via Google Books.
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15. Became a Liberal on the formal creation of that party, soon after the 1859 general election.
16. 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.
17. Became a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, when it was created in 1882.
18. 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.
19. Salmon, Philip. "Co. Kildare". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
20. "The General Election" . Freeman's Journal . 7 February 1874. p. 3. Retrieved 19 February 2018– via British Newspaper Archive.

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