Leitrim (UK Parliament constituency)

Leitrim was a Parliamentary constituency

United Kingdom constituencies

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in Ireland

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, represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) from 1801 to 1885 and one from 1918 to 1922.

1801-1885

Year	\|2nd Member	2nd Party
1801, 1 January United Kingdom general election, 1801 The United Kingdom general election, 1801 was not an election as such, but the co-option of members to serve in the first Parliament to be held after the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801...		Nathaniel Clements, Viscount Clements Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim, KP PC , styled The Honourable from 1783 to 1795, and then Viscount Clements to 1804, was an Irish nobleman and politician.... , later Earl of Leitrim	Theophilus Jones
1802, 24 July			Peter La Touche Peter La Touche Peter La Touch was an Irish politician.He became a Member of Parliament for County Leitrim 1802–1806.- References :...
1805, 5 February		Henry John Clements Henry John Clements Colonel Henry John Clements was an Irish Conservative politician.He was born at Ashfield Lodge in County Cavan, the eldest son of the Rt Hon Henry Theophilus Clements and Catharine Beresford. He became a Member of Parliament for County Leitrim 1805–1818, and County Cavan 1840–1843...
1806, 21 November			William Gore William Ormsby-Gore For his great-great grandson, see William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech.William Ormsby-Gore , known as William Gore until 1815, was a British Member of Parliament....
1807, 18 May			John La Touche John La Touche (politician) John La Touche was an Irish Whig politician.La Touche represented Newtownards in the Irish House of Commons from 1796 to 1798, Newcastle in 1798, and Harristown from 1797 until the Act of Union in 1801. Subsequently La Touche became a Member of Parliament in the new Parliament of the United...
1818, 15 July		Luke White Luke White (Irish politician) Luke White was an Irish bookseller, operator of a lottery and Whig politician.He started as an impecunious book dealer, first in the streets of Belfast, then from 1778 at an auction house in Dublin buying and reselling around the country...
1820, 21 March			John Marcus Clements
1824, 5 April		Samuel White	John Marcus Clements
1826, 20 June			Robert Clements, Viscount Clements
1830, 16 August			John Marcus Clements
1832, 24 December			Robert Clements, Viscount Clements
1839, 6 March			William Clements, Viscount Clements William Clements, 3rd Earl of Leitrim William Sydney Clements, 3rd Earl of Leitrim was an Anglo-Irish nobleman and landlord.Born in Dublin, he was educated at Sandhurst and was commissioned an Ensign in the 43rd Foot in 1824... , later Earl of Leitrim
1847, 12 August		Edward King Tenison	Charles Skeffington Clements
1852, 26 July		Hugh Lyons Montgomery	John Brady
1858, 17 April		William Ormsby-Gore William Ormsby-Gore, 2nd Baron Harlech William Richard Ormsby-Gore, 2nd Baron Harlech was an Anglo-Irish peer and Member of Parliament.Ormsby-Gore was the younger son of William Ormsby-Gore and Mary Jane Ormsby. He was educated at Eton College and later purchased an Ensigncy in the 53rd Foot... , later Baron Harlech
1876, 17 July		Francis O'Beirne
1880, 10 April United Kingdom general election, 1880 -Seats summary:-References:F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987 British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher *...		Arthur Loftus Tottenham Arthur Loftus Tottenham Arthur Loftus Tottenham was a landowner and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1887.-Biography:...
1885 Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was a piece of electoral reform legislation that redistributed the seats in the House of Commons, introducing the concept of equally populated constituencies, in an attempt to equalise representation across...	Constituency divided: see North Leitrim North Leitrim (UK Parliament constituency) North Leitrim was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland. From 1885 to 1918 it returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.... and South Leitrim South Leitrim (UK Parliament constituency) South Leitrim was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland. From 1885 to 1918 it returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland....

1918-1922

Election		Member	Party	Note
1918		Single member constituency created
	1918, December 14 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...	James Nicholas Dolan James Dolan (Irish politician) James Nicholas Dolan was an Irish politician. Dolan was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Sinn Féin Member of Parliament at the 1918 general election for Leitrim. He was elected again in 1921 for the constituency of Leitrim–Sligo and subsequently went on to support the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Dolan...	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...	Did not take his seat at Westminster Palace of Westminster The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, is the meeting place of the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom—the House of Lords and the House of Commons...
1922, October 26		UK constituency abolished

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