North Kildare (UK Parliament constituency)

North Kildare
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1922
Number of members	One
Created from	Kildare

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

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

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the northern part of County Kildare.

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 James 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	Donal Buckley (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

References

• 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 1)