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County Kildare is a former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two MPs to the United Kingdom House of Commons from 1801 to 1885.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Kildare.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

O'Ferrall was appointed as a Commissioner of the Treasury, requiring a by-election.

Elections in the 1840s

Elections in the 1850s

Bourke was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, requiring a by-election.

Elections in the 1860s

FitzGerald was appointed Treasurer of the Household, requiring a by-election.

Fitzgerald was appointed Comptroller of the Household, requiring a by-election.

Elections in the 1870s

Elections in the 1880s

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)

References

1. Salmon, Philip. "LATOUCHE, Robert (1773-1844), of Harristown, co. Kildare". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
2. Resigned, 1813
3. ^ Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. pp. 229–230. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via Google Books.
4. Re-elected in a by-election, on 26 May 1835, after being appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury.
5. Churton, Edward (1838). The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer. p. 169. Retrieved 22 August 2019 – via Google Books.
6. Re-elected in the 1835 general election, as a candidate of a Whig/Repealer electoral pact
7. ^ Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 220, 285–286. ISBN 0901714127.
8. Mosse, Richard Bartholomew (1837). The Parliamentary Guide: a concise history of the Members of both Houses, etc. p. 130. Retrieved 22 August 2019 – via Google Books.
9. ^ "County of Kildare". Dublin Evening Packet and Correspondent. 19 August 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
10. ^ The Protestant Elector. p. 197. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via Google Books.
11. ^ "General Election". London Evening Standard. 18 August 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
12. ^ "Ireland". London Evening Standard. 1 March 1852. p. 1. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
13. ^ "The Evening Freeman". 4 March 1852. pp. 2–3. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
14. "Defeat of the Ministry". Wexford Independent. 7 March 1857. p. 2. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
15. Became a Liberal on the formal creation of that party, soon after the 1859 general election.
16. Re-elected in a by-election, on 21 May 1866, after being appointed Treasurer of the Household. Re-elected in a by-election, on 11 January 1869, after being appointed Comptroller of the Household.
17. Became a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, when it was created in 1882.
18. A supporter of the Parnellite faction of the Home Rule League, at the 1880 general election. Became a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, when it was created in 1882.
19. ^ Salmon, Philip. "Co. Kildare". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
20. "The General Election". Freeman's Journal. 7 February 1874. p. 3. Retrieved 19 February 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.

• 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)
• Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 1)

• Westminster constituencies in County Kildare (historic)
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1801
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1885