East Wicklow (UK Parliament constituency)

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

East Wicklow, a division of County Wicklow, was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1885 to 1922 it returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Until the 1885 general election the area was part of the Wicklow constituency. From 1922 it was not represented in the UK Parliament, as it was no longer in the UK.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the eastern part of County Wicklow.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	William Joseph Corbet	Nationalist
	1890		National League (Parnellite)
	1892	John Sweetman	National Federation (Anti-Parnellite)
	1895	Edward Peter O'Kelly	National Federation (Anti-Parnellite)
	1895	William Joseph Corbet	National League (Parnellite)
	1900	Denis Joseph Cogan	Nationalist
	1907	John Muldoon	Nationalist
	1911	Anthony John Charles Donelan	Nationalist
	1918	Seán Etchingham	Sinn Féin
1922		UK constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: East Wicklow^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Sinn Féin	Sean R Etchingham	5916	53.9	n/a
	Irish Unionist	Alexander P Keene	2600	23.7	n/a
	Irish Parliamentary	Denis Cogan	2466	22.4	n/a
Majority			3,316	30.2	n/a
Turnout			10,982	72.1	n/a
	Sinn Féin win

References

1. http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/h1918.htm

• The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
• 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 "W" (part 3)