East Cork, a division of County Cork

County Cork

County Cork is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and is also part of the province of Munster. It is named after the city of Cork . Cork County Council is the local authority for the county...

, was a parliamentary constituency

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  in Ireland

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, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom

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. From 1885 to 1922 it returned one Member of Parliament

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 (MP) to the House of Commons

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 of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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.

Until the 1885 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1885

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 the area was part of the Cork County

Cork County (UK Parliament constituency)

Cork County was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1801 to 1885 it returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland....

 constituency. From 1922 it was not represented in the UK Parliament

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, as it was no longer in the UK.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885 United Kingdom general election, 1885 -Seats summary:-See also:*List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1885*Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885–1918*Representation of the People Act 1884*Redistribution of Seats Act 1885-References:...	William John Lane William John Lane William John Lane was an Irish nationalist politician. A member of Cork Corporation in 1884, he was elected at the 1885 general election as the Member of Parliament for the newly-created Eastern division of County Cork. Lane was re-elected unopposed in 1886, but did not stand again at the 1892...	Irish Parliamentary Party Irish Parliamentary Party The Irish Parliamentary Party was formed in 1882 by Charles Stewart Parnell, the leader of the Nationalist Party, replacing the Home Rule League, as official parliamentary party for Irish nationalist Members of Parliament elected to the House of Commons at...
	1891		Anti-Parnellite
	1892 United Kingdom general election, 1892 The 1892 United Kingdom general election was held from 4 July to 26 July 1892. It saw the Conservatives, led by Lord Salisbury, win the greatest number of seats, but not enough for an overall majority as William Ewart Gladstone's Liberals won many more seats than in the 1886 general election...	Anthony John Charles Donelan	Anti-Parnellite
	1900 United Kingdom general election, 1900 -Seats summary:-See also:*MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1900*The Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885-1918-External links:***-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987**...		Irish Parliamentary Party Irish Parliamentary Party The Irish Parliamentary Party was formed in 1882 by Charles Stewart Parnell, the leader of the Nationalist Party, replacing the Home Rule League, as official parliamentary party for Irish nationalist Members of Parliament elected to the House of Commons at...
	1911 by-election	John Muldoon John Muldoon (Irish politician) John Muldoon was an Irish barrister and nationalist politician. He was a Member of Parliament for most of the period between 1905 and 1918, representing three different constituencies in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.-Early life:Muldoon was the third son...	Irish Parliamentary Party Irish Parliamentary Party The Irish Parliamentary Party was formed in 1882 by Charles Stewart Parnell, the leader of the Nationalist Party, replacing the Home Rule League, as official parliamentary party for Irish nationalist Members of Parliament elected to the House of Commons at...
	1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 The United Kingdom general election of 1918 was the first to be held after the Representation of the People Act 1918, which meant it was the first United Kingdom general election in which nearly all adult men and some women could vote. Polling was held on 14 December 1918, although the count did...	David Kent David Kent (politician) David Rice Kent was an Irish Sinn Féin politician.He was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin MP for the Cork East constituency at the 1918 general election...	Sinn Féin Sinn Féin Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...
	1922 United Kingdom general election, 1922 The United Kingdom general election of 1922 was held on 15 November 1922. It was the first election held after most of the Irish counties left the United Kingdom to form the Irish Free State, and was won by Andrew Bonar Law's Conservatives, who gained an overall majority over Labour, led by John...	constituency abolished

Elections

The election of December 1910 was declared void after petition. The resultant by-election was won by John Muldoon

John Muldoon (Irish politician)

John Muldoon was an Irish barrister and nationalist politician. He was a Member of Parliament for most of the period between 1905 and 1918, representing three different constituencies in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.-Early life:Muldoon was the third son...

 (Irish Parliamentary Party

Irish Parliamentary Party

The Irish Parliamentary Party was formed in 1882 by Charles Stewart Parnell, the leader of the Nationalist Party, replacing the Home Rule League, as official parliamentary party for Irish nationalist Members of Parliament elected to the House of Commons at...

) on 15 July 1911.