Kilkenny City (UK Parliament constituency)

Kilkenny City
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1918
Number of members	One
Replaced by	North Kilkenny

Kilkenny City was an Irish Borough constituency in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament (MP). It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801, and remained in existence until its abolition for the 1918 general election.

Boundaries

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Kilkenny in County Kilkenny.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1 January 1801	William Talbot		1801: Co-opted. Resigned.
	2 March 1802	Richard Archdall
	22 July 1802	Hon. Charles Harward Butler	Whig	Resigned
	4 February 1809	Robert Williams
	24 October 1812	Overington Blunden		Resigned
	27 May 1814	Hon. Charles Harward Butler	Whig
	7 April 1820	Rt Hon. Denis Browne	Tory
	22 June 1826	John Doherty
	11 August 1830	Nicholas Philpot Leader	Whig
	13 December 1832	Richard Sullivan	Repeal Association	Re-elected as a candidate of a Liberal/Repealer pact
	10 January 1835		Liberal	Resigned
	17 May 1836	Daniel O'Connell	Repeal Association
	7 August 1837	Joseph Hume	Liberal
	3 July 1841	John O'Connell	Repeal Association	1847: Also returned by and elected to sit for Limerick
	18 December 1847	Michael Sullivan	Repeal Association	Re-elected as a Liberal candidate
	10 July 1852		Liberal	Joined the Independent Irish Party
	1852		Independent Irish	Re-elected as a Liberal candidate
	5 May 1859		Liberal
	13 July 1865	Sir John Gray	Liberal	Re-elected as a Home Rule League candidate
	2 February 1874		Home Rule League	Died
	28 April 1875	Benjamin Whitworth	Home Rule League	Resigned
	26 February 1880	John Francis Smithwick	Home Rule League
	1882		Irish Parliamentary Party
	1886	Thomas Quinn	Irish Parliamentary Party
	1890		Parnellite
	1891–1892		Anti-Parnellite
	1892–1895	Thomas Bartholomew Curran	Anti-Parnellite
	1895	Patrick O'Brien	Parnellite
	1900–1917		Irish Parliamentary Party
	1917	W. T. Cosgrave	Sinn Féin
1918		constituency abolished

Elections

1917 by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Sinn Féin	W. T. Cosgrave	772	66.3	N/A
	Irish Parliamentary	John Magennis	392	33.7	N/A
Majority			380	32.6	N/A
Turnout			1,164		N/A
	Sinn Féin gain from Irish Parliamentary		Swing	N/A

References

• The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2)