Dublin St James's (UK Parliament constituency)
Dublin St James's | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1918–1922 | |
Seats | 1 |
Created from | Dublin St Patrick's and South Dublin |
Replaced by | Dublin North-West |
St James's, a division of Dublin, was a UK
From the dissolution of 1922, the area was no longer represented in the UK Parliament.
Boundaries
The St James's was a division of the parliamentary borough of Dublin defined as:[1]
theNew Kilmainhamand Usher's Quay Wards of the Borough
History
Dublin St James's was created under the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918 following recommendations of the 1917 Boundary Commission, which increased the parliamentary representation of the county borough of Dublin from four divisions to seven.[2] Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the city had been divided into four constituencies: the Dublin College Green, Dublin Harbour, Dublin St Patrick's and Dublin St Stephen's Green constituencies. In 1918, the city was allocated seven seats: the existing four constituencies, and three new constituencies of Dublin St James's, Dublin Clontarf and Dublin St Michan's. The increase in seats reflected both the increase in population and the expansion of the city area. The Kilmainham area had been brought into the city under the Dublin Corporation Act 1900.
The constituency was used at only one election, the
Under the
Under s. 1(4) of the Irish Free State (Agreement) Act 1922, no writ was to be issued "for a constituency in Ireland other than a constituency in Northern Ireland".[4] Therefore, no vote was held in Dublin North-West at the 1922 United Kingdom general election on 15 November 1922, shortly before the Irish Free State left the United Kingdom on 6 December 1922.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[5] | Party | |
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1918
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Joseph McGrath | Sinn Féin | |
1922 | constituency abolished |
Election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Sinn Féin | Joseph McGrath | 6,256 | 80.08 | ||
Independent Nationalist | John Saturnus Kelly | 1,556 | 19.92 | ||
Majority | 4,700 | 60.16 | |||
Turnout | 7,812 | 59.54 | |||
Sinn Féin win (new seat) |
References
- ^ "Report of the Boundary Commission (Ireland)". Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland. DIPPAM: Documenting Ireland, Parliament, People and Migration. p. 35. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
- ^ "Redistribution of seats (Ireland) Act, 1918". Retrieved 28 September 2022.
- ^ "Government of Ireland Act 1920: Fifth Schedule". legislation.gov.uk. The National Archives. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
- ^ "Irish Free State (Agreement) Act 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 4)". Historical Documents. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 1)
- Walker, Brian M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. p. 388. ISBN 0901714127.
- Boundary Commission (Ireland) established in 1917 to redistribute seats in the House of Commons under the terms of the Representation of the People Bill, 1917 (1917). "Schedule 10 : Parliamentary borough of Dublin" (PDF). Report. Vol. CSO/RP/1917/29520/36. National Archives of Ireland. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 December 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
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