West Limerick (UK Parliament constituency)

West Limerick
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1922
Created from	County Limerick

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

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the western part of County Limerick.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1885, December 1	William Abraham	Irish Parliamentary	Party split
	1890, December ^1		Anti-Parnellite	Joined new organisation
	1891, March ^1		Irish National Federation
	1892, July 13	Michael Austin	Irish National Federation
	1900, October 5	Patrick Joseph O'Shaughnessy	Irish Parliamentary
	1918, December 14 ^2	Cornelius Collins	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 "L" (part 3)