North Kildare (UK Parliament constituency)

North Kildare was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament from 1885 to 1922.

North Kildare
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1922
Seats	1
Created from	Kildare
Replaced by	Kildare–Wicklow

Prior to the 1885 United Kingdom general election the area was part of the Kildare constituency. From 1922, on the establishment of the Irish Free State, it was not represented in the UK Parliament.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the northern part of County Kildare.

1885–1922: The baronies of Carbury, Clane, Connell, Ikeathy and Oughterany, North Naas, North Salt and South Salt, and that part of the barony of South Naas contained within the parishes of Kill, Killashee and Tipperkevin.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1885, November 28	James Laurence Carew	Irish Parliamentary	Party split
	1890, December 1		Irish National League
	1892, July 9	Patrick Kennedy	Irish National Federation
	1895, July 20	Charles John Engledow	Irish National Federation
	1900, October 10	Edmund Leamy	Irish Parliamentary	Died 10 December 1904
	1905, February 14	John O'Connor	Irish Parliamentary
	1918, December 14 2	Domhnall Ua Buachalla	Sinn Féin	Did not take his seat at Westminster
1922, October 26		UK constituency abolished

Notes:-

• ¹ Not an election, but the date of a party change. The Irish Parliamentary Party had been created in 1882, on the initiative of Charles Stewart Parnell's Irish National League. Both the IPP and the INL split into Parnellite and Anti-Parnellite factions, in December 1890. The Parnellites remained members of the Irish National League after the split and the Anti-Parnellites organised the Irish National Federation in March 1891. The two organisations and the United Irish League merged in 1900, to re-create the Irish Parliamentary Party.
• ² Date of polling day. The result was declared on 28 December 1918, to allow time for votes cast by members of the armed forces to be included in the count.

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

1885 general election: North Kildare

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	James Laurence Carew	3,168	87.2
	Irish Conservative	John Fock	467	12.8
Majority			2,701	74.4
Turnout			3,635	71.2
Registered electors			5,108
	Irish Parliamentary win (new seat)

1886 general election: North Kildare

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	James Laurence Carew	Unopposed
	Irish Parliamentary hold

Elections in the 1890s

1892 general election: North Kildare

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish National Federation	Patrick Kennedy	2,153	55.8	N/A
	Irish National League	James Laurence Carew	1,707	44.2	N/A
Majority			446	11.6	N/A
Turnout			3,860	65.4	N/A
Registered electors			5,901
	Irish National Federation gain from Irish Parliamentary		Swing	N/A

1895 general election: North Kildare

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish National Federation	Charles John Engledow	1,944	53.2	−2.6
	Irish National League	James Laurence Carew	1,712	46.8	+2.6
Majority			232	6.4	−5.2
Turnout			3,656	73.0	+7.6
Registered electors			5,007
	Irish National Federation hold		Swing	−2.6

Elections in the 1900s

1900 general election: North Kildare

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	Edmund Leamy	1,461	54.3	N/A
	Healyite Nationalist	Charles John Engledow	1,229	45.7	−7.5
Majority			232	8.6	+2.2
Turnout			2,690	46.0	−27.0
Registered electors			5,845
	Irish Parliamentary hold		Swing

By-election, 1905: North Kildare

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	John O'Connor	Unopposed
	Irish Parliamentary hold

1906 general election: North Kildare

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	John O'Connor	Unopposed
	Irish Parliamentary hold

Elections in the 1910s

January 1910 general election: North Kildare

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	John O'Connor	Unopposed
	Irish Parliamentary hold

December 1910 general election: North Kildare

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	John O'Connor	Unopposed
	Irish Parliamentary hold

1918 general election: North Kildare

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Sinn Féin	Domhnall Ua Buachalla	5,979	68.7	New
	Irish Parliamentary	John O'Connor	2,722	31.3	N/A
Majority			3,257	37.4	N/A
Turnout			8,701	65.5	N/A
Registered electors			13,274
	Sinn Féin gain from Irish Parliamentary		Swing	N/A

References

• Walker, Brian M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 1)