Waterford City (UK Parliament constituency) (original) (raw)

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UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland, 1801–1922

Waterford City
Former borough constituencyfor the House of Commons
County County Waterford
Borough Waterford
1801–1922
Seats 1 (1801–1832)2 (1832–1885)1 (1885–1922)
Created from Waterford City (IHC)
Replaced by Waterford–Tipperary East

Waterford City was a United Kingdom parliamentary constituency, in southeast Ireland.[1]

Boundaries and boundary changes

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As the constituency for the parliamentary borough of Waterford in County Waterford, it returned one MP from 1801 to 1832, two from 1832 to 1885 and one from 1885 to 1922.[2] It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801.[3]

In 1918, the boundary was redefined to exclude the Kilculliheen area which had been transferred to County Kilkenny[4] under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 37).[5] It was defined as consisting of the county borough of Waterford and the district electoral divisions of Ballynakill, Kilbarry, Killoteran and Waterford Rural in the rural district of Waterford.

Following the dissolution of parliament in 1922 the area was no longer represented in the United Kingdom House of Commons.[6]

The constituency was a predominantly Nationalist area in 1918.[7] The seat was contested by William Redmond, the son of the IPP leader John Redmond whom he replaced in the Waterford City constituency in a by-election held in March 1918.[8] In the general election of December 1918, it was the only Irish seat the IPP won outside Ulster.[9]

Sinn Féin contested the general election of 1918 on the platform that instead of taking up any seats they won in the United Kingdom Parliament, they would establish a revolutionary assembly in Dublin.[10] In republican theory every MP elected in Ireland was a potential Deputy to this assembly. In practice only the Sinn Féin members accepted the offer.

The revolutionary First Dáil assembled on 21 January 1919 and last met on 10 May 1921.[11] The First Dáil, according to a resolution passed on 10 May 1921, was formally dissolved on the assembling of the Second Dáil. This took place on 16 August 1921.

In 1921 Sinn Féin used the UK authorised elections for the Northern Ireland House of Commons and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland as a poll for the Irish Republic's Second Dáil. This area was part of the five-seat Dáil constituency of Waterford–Tipperary East.

Members of Parliament

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Election Member Party Life
1801 William Congreve Alcock Tory[12]
1803 Sir John Newport, Bt.[13] Whig[12]

Representation increased to two members

Election 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party
1832 Henry Barron Repeal Association[14] William Christmas Tory[12][14]
1834 Conservative[12][14]
1835 Thomas Wyse Whig[12][15][16]
1841 William Christmas Conservative[12][14] William Morris Reade Conservative[12][14]
1841 Henry Barron Whig[12][15][16] Thomas Wyse Whig[12][15][16]
1847 Thomas Meagher Repeal Association[14] Daniel O'Connell Jnr Repeal Association[14]
1848 by-election Henry Barron Whig[12][15][16]
1852 Ind. Irish[14] Robert Keating Ind. Irish[14]
1857 John Aloysius Blake Ind. Irish[14] Michael D. Hassard Conservative[14]
1859 Liberal[14]
1865 Henry Barron Liberal[14]
1868 James Delahunty Liberal[14]
1869 Henry Barron Liberal[14]
1870 by-election Ralph Bernal Osborne Liberal[14]
1874 Richard Power Home Rule League[14] Purcell O'Gorman Home Rule League[14]
1880 Edmund Leamy Parnellite Home Rule League[14]
1882 Irish Parliamentary Party[14] Irish Parliamentary Party[14]
1885 Reduced to 1 seat

Representation reduced to one member

Election Member Party
1885 Richard Power
1890 Parnellite
1892 by-election John Redmond
1900 Nationalist
1918 by-election William Redmond
1922 UK constituency abolished

The single-member elections in this constituency took place using the first past the post electoral system. Multi-member elections used the plurality-at-large voting system.[17]

Elections in the 1830s

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Wyse was appointed as a Commissioner of the Treasury, requiring a by-election.

Elections in the 1840s

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On petition, Christmas and Reade were unseated and Wyse and Barron were declared elected on 13 June 1842.

O'Connell resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.

Elections in the 1850s

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Elections in the 1860s

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Blake resigned after he was appointed inspector of Irish fisheries, causing a by-election.

Elections in the 1870s

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Barron was unseated on petition, causing a by-election.

Elections in the 1880s

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Elections in the 1890s

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Power died, causing a by-election.

Elections in the 1900s

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Elections in the 1910s

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  13. ^ On petition Alcock was unseated and Newport was declared elected, 7 December 1803.
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