North East Cork (UK Parliament constituency)

This article is about 1885–1922 constituency of the United Kingdom House of Commons and of the 1919–1921 First Dáil. For the 1961–1981 constituency, see Cork North-East (Dáil constituency).

North East Cork, a division of County Cork, was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1885 to 1922 it returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

North East Cork
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1922
Seats	1
Created from	County Cork and Mallow
Replaced by	Cork East and North East

Until the 1885 general election the area was part of the County Cork constituency. From 1922, on the establishment of the Irish Free State, it was not represented in the UK Parliament.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the north-eastern part of County Cork, consisting of the baronies of Condons and Clangibbon and Kinnatalloon, that part of the barony of Fermoy not contained within the constituency of North Cork, that part of the barony of Barrymore contained within the parishes of Ardnageehy, Britway, Castlelyons, Coole, Dunbulloge, Gortroe, Kilshanahan, Knockmourne, Rathcormack, Templebodan and Whitechurch, and that part of the barony of Barretts contained within the parish of Mourne Abbey.

Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1885	Edmund Leamy	Irish Parliamentary Party
	1887	William O'Brien	Irish Parliamentary Party
	1891		Irish National Federation
	February 1893	Michael Davitt	Irish National Federation
	June 1893	William Abraham	Irish National Federation
	1900		Irish Parliamentary Party
	January 1910	William O'Brien	All-for-Ireland League
	March 1910	Maurice Healy	All-for-Ireland League
	December 1910	Moreton Frewen	All-for-Ireland League
	1911	Tim Healy	All-for-Ireland League
	1918	Thomas Hunter	Sinn Féin
1922		constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

General election 28 November 1885: Cork North-East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	Edmund Leamy	Unopposed
Registered electors			8,175
	Irish Parliamentary win (new seat)

General election 7 July 1886: Cork North-East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	Edmund Leamy	Unopposed
Registered electors			8,175
	Irish Parliamentary hold

• Leamy resigns

By-election 16 May 1887: Cork North-East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	William O'Brien	Unopposed
Registered electors			8,812
	Irish Parliamentary hold

Elections in the 1890s

General election 7 July 1892: Cork North-East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish National Federation	William O'Brien	Unopposed
Registered electors			8,781
	Irish National Federation gain from Irish Parliamentary

In the 1892 United Kingdom general election William O'Brien (Irish Parliamentary Party) was returned for both North East Cork and Cork City. He chose to sit for Cork City, and a by-election was held for the vacant seat.

By-election 8 February 1893: Cork North-East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish National Federation	Michael Davitt	Unopposed
Registered electors			8,790
	Irish National Federation hold

Being the only nominated candidate in the by-election, Michael Davitt took the seat unopposed on 8 February 1893. He resigned in May (after being threatened with bankruptcy) and a further by-election was held for which William Abraham was returned unopposed on 28 June.

By-election 28 June 1893: Cork North-East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish National Federation	William Abraham	Unopposed
Registered electors			8,790
	Irish National Federation hold

General election 18 July 1895: Cork North-East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish National Federation	William Abraham	Unopposed
Registered electors			8,356
	Irish National Federation hold

Elections in the 1900s

General election 4 October 1900: Cork North-East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	William Abraham	Unopposed
Registered electors			7,393
	Irish Parliamentary hold

General election 18 January 1906: Cork North-East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	William Abraham	Unopposed
Registered electors			6,497
	Irish Parliamentary hold

Elections in the 1910s

General election 27 January 1910: Cork North-East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	All-for-Ireland	William O'Brien	2,984	66.4	N/A
	Irish Parliamentary	William Abraham	1,510	33.6	N/A
Majority			1,474	32.8	N/A
Turnout			4,494	67.7	N/A
Registered electors			6,634
	All-for-Ireland gain from Irish Parliamentary		Swing	N/A

In the January 1910 general election William O'Brien (All-for-Ireland League) was again returned for both North East Cork and Cork City. As usual, he chose to sit for Cork City, and a by-election was held for the vacant seat, which was taken unopposed by Maurice Healy (All-for-Ireland League) on 2 March 1910.

By-election 2 March 1910: Cork North-East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	All-for-Ireland	Maurice Healy	Unopposed
Registered electors			6,634
	All-for-Ireland hold

General election 8 December 1910: Cork North-East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	All-for-Ireland	Moreton Frewen	Unopposed
Registered electors			6,634
	All-for-Ireland hold

In the December 1910 general election North East Cork was won by Moreton Frewen (All-for-Ireland League) but his senior party colleague Tim Healy lost in North Louth. Frewen resigned so that Healy could stand in his vacated seat, and Healy was returned unopposed in the by-election on 16 July 1911.

By-election 15 July 1911: Cork North-East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	All-for-Ireland	Tim Healy	Unopposed
Registered electors			6,670
	All-for-Ireland hold

General Election 14 December 1918: Cork North-East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Sinn Féin	Thomas Hunter	Unopposed
Registered electors			18,239
	Sinn Féin gain from All-for-Ireland

References

• Walker, Brian M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922. Royal Irish Academy.
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 5)