Queen's_County_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Queen's County
Queen's County
Former county constituency; for the House of Commons
County	Queen's County
1801–1885
Seats	2
Created from	Queen's County (IHC)
Replaced by	Queen's County Leix and Queen's County Ossory
1918–1922
Seats	1
Created from	Queen's County Leix and Queen's County Ossory (IHC)
Replaced by	Leix–Offaly

Queen's County (UK Parliament constituency)

UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland, 1801–1885

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

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Year	1st Member		1st Party		2nd Party
1801		Sir John Parnell, Bt		Charles Coote
1801, 28 December		Hon. William Wellesley-Pole	Tory^[1]	Charles Coote
1802, 5 April				Henry Parnell	Whig^[1]
1802, 23 July				Sir Eyre Coote
1806, 17 February				Sir Henry Parnell	Whig^[1]
1821, 27 August		Sir Charles Coote, Bt	Tory^[1]^[2]	Sir Henry Parnell	Whig^[1]
1832, 24 December			Tory^[1]^[2]	Patrick Lalor	Repeal Association^[2]
1834, 18 December			Conservative^[1]^[2]	Patrick Lalor	Repeal Association^[2]
1835, 20 January				Hon. Thomas Vesey	Conservative^[1]^[2]
1837, 15 August				John FitzPatrick	Whig^[1]^[3]^[4]
1841, 10 July				Hon. Thomas Vesey	Conservative^[1]^[2]
1847, 7 August		John FitzPatrick	Whig^[1]^[3]^[4]	Hon. Thomas Vesey	Conservative^[1]^[2]
1852, 19 July		Michael Dunne	Ind. Irish^[2]	Sir Charles Coote, Bt	Conservative^[2]
1857, 11 April			Whig	Sir Charles Coote, Bt	Conservative^[2]
1859, 10 May			Liberal^[2]	Francis Plunkett Dunne	Conservative^[2]
1865, 22 July		John FitzPatrick	Liberal^[2]	Francis Plunkett Dunne	Conservative^[2]
1868, 23 November		John FitzPatrick	Liberal^[2]	Kenelm Thomas Digby	Liberal^[2]
1870, 4 January		Edmund Dease^[5]	Liberal^[2]		Liberal^[2]
1874, 7 February		Edmund Dease^[5]	Home Rule League^[2]		Home Rule League^[2]
1880, 8 April		Richard Lalor	Parnellite Home Rule League^[2]	Arthur O'Connor	Parnellite Home Rule League^[2]
1885	Constituency divided: see Queen's County Leix and Queen's County Ossory

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	Henry Parnell	Unopposed
	Whig hold

Queen's County (UK Parliament constituency)

Queen's County
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
County	Queen's County
1801–1885
Seats	2
Created from	Queen's County (IHC)
Replaced by	Queen's County Leix and Queen's County Ossory
1918–1922
Seats	1
Created from	Queen's County Leix and Queen's County Ossory (IHC)
Replaced by	Leix–Offaly

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Repeal	Patrick Lalor	772	35.6	*New*
	Tory	Charles Coote	694	32.0	−2.9
	Irish Repeal	Peter Gale	683	31.5	New
	Whig	Edward Dunne	18	0.8	−64.3
Turnout			1,380	93.8	c. +56.0
Registered electors			1,471
Majority			78	3.6	N/A
	Irish Repeal gain from Whig
Majority			11	0.5	-13.2
	Tory hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Coote	787	28.2	+12.2
	Conservative	Thomas Vesey	695	24.9	+8.9
	Irish Repeal (Whig)	Patrick Lalor	673	24.2	−11.4
	Irish Repeal (Whig)	Robert Cassidy	631	22.6	−8.9
Majority			22	0.7	+0.2
Turnout			1,445	85.4	−8.4
Registered electors			1,692
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Irish Repeal		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Coote	1,224	39.4	+11.2
	Whig	John FitzPatrick	943	30.4	*N/A*
	Conservative	Thomas Vesey	894	28.8	+3.9
	Conservative	Sir Charles Henry Coote, 10th Baronet	40	1.3	N/A
	Whig	John Michael Henry Fock, 3rd Baron de Robeck	4	0.1	N/A
Turnout			1,885	78.6	−6.8
Registered electors			2,397
Majority			281	9.0	+8.3
	Conservative hold
Majority			49	1.6	N/A
	Whig gain from Conservative

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Coote	1,850	41.0	*N/A*
	Whig	Michael Dunne	1,424	31.6	*N/A*
	Whig	John FitzPatrick	1,239	27.5	N/A
Majority			611	13.5	N/A
Turnout			2,257 (est)	66.0 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			3,419
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A
	Whig gain from Independent Irish		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Francis Plunkett Dunne	1,800	42.5	*N/A*
	Liberal	John FitzPatrick	1,515	35.8	*N/A*
	Liberal	Patrick McDonald	916	21.6	N/A
Majority			285	6.7	N/A
Turnout			3,016 (est)	87.7 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			3,438
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Home Rule	Kenelm Thomas Digby	1,726	39.6	*New*
	Home Rule	Edmund Dease	1,639	37.6	*New*
	Liberal	George Dunne	993	22.8	N/A
Majority			646	14.8	N/A
Turnout			2,676 (est)	74.5 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			3,593
	Home Rule gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A
	Home Rule gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parnellite Home Rule League	Richard Lalor	1,686	39.8	*N/A*
	Parnellite Home Rule League	Arthur O'Connor	1,545	36.4	*N/A*
	Conservative	Robert Ashworth Godolphin Cosby	899	21.2	New
	Home Rule	Kenelm Thomas Digby	109	2.6	−37.0
Majority			646	15.2	+0.4
Turnout			2,585 (est)	81.0 (est)	+6.5
Registered electors			3,190
	Home Rule hold		Swing	N/A
	Home Rule hold		Swing	N/A