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Dublin St Stephen's Green (UK Parliament constituency)

St Stephen's Green, a division of Dublin, was a borough constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the United Kingdom House of Commons from 1885 until 1922 on the first past the post electoral system.

St Stephen's Green
Former borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Dublin St Stephen's Green constituency within Dublin, as it existed from 1885 to 1918.
Dublin within Ireland. Map utilises the modern administrative boundaries.
1885–1922
Seats1
Created fromDublin City
Replaced byDublin South

From the dissolution of 1922, shortly before the establishment of the Irish Free State, the area was no longer represented in the UK Parliament.

Boundaries

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This constituency was named for St Stephen's Green and comprised parts of the south-east of the city of Dublin.[1]

From 1885 to 1918, it was defined as:[2]

Exchange Ward, Fitzwilliam Ward, Mansion House Wards, and those parts of the South Dock and Trinity wards not contained within the Dublin Harbour constituency, and that part of the parliamentary borough outside of the municipal borough boundary not contained within the Dublin Harbour constituency.

From 1918 to 1922, it was defined as:[3]

the Royal Exchange, Fitzwilliam and Mansion House wards and those parts of the South Dock and Trinity wards not contained within the Dublin Harbour constituency.

History

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Prior to the 1885 general election, the city was the undivided two-member Dublin City constituency. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Dublin was divided into four divisions: College Green, Dublin Harbour, St Stephen's Green, and St Patrick's. Under the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918, the city was allocated seven seats: in addition to the four existing constituencies, the new divisions were Clontarf, St James's and St Michan's.[4]

Sinn Féin used the 1918 general election to elect members of Dáil Éireann, inviting all those elected in Ireland to sit as a Teachta Dála (known in English as a Deputy) in the Dáil rather than at Westminster, although only the Sinn Féin members attended. Thomas Kelly sat as a member of the First Dáil.

Under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, the area was combined with the St Patrick's Division to form Dublin South, a 4-seat constituency for the Southern Ireland House of Commons and a single constituency at Westminster.[5] At the 1921 election for the Southern Ireland House of Commons, the four seats were won uncontested by Sinn Féin, who treated it as part of the election to the Second Dáil. Thomas Kelly was one of the four TDs for Dublin South.

Under s. 1(4) of the Irish Free State (Agreement) Act 1922, no writ was to be issued "for a constituency in Ireland other than a constituency in Northern Ireland".[6] Therefore, no vote was held in Dublin South at the 1922 United Kingdom general election on 15 November 1922, shortly before the Irish Free State left the United Kingdom on 6 December 1922.

Members of Parliament

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FromToMember[7]Party
18851888Edmund Dwyer GrayIrish Parliamentary
18881892Thomas Alexander DicksonLiberal
18921898William KennyLiberal Unionist
18981900James Henry Mussen CampbellIrish Unionist
1900[8][9][10]1904James McCannIrish Parliamentary
1904[11]1910Laurence Ambrose WaldronIrish Parliamentary
19101918Patrick Joseph BradyIrish Parliamentary
19181922Thomas KellySinn Féin

Elections

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Elections in the 1910s

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1918 general election: Dublin St Stephen's Green[12][13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Sinn FéinThomas Kelly 8,461 59.9 New
Irish ParliamentaryPatrick Joseph Brady2,90220.6 35.9
Irish UnionistHenry Hanna2,75519.5 24.0
Majority5,55939.3N/A
Turnout14,11871.5 8.9
Registered electors19,759
Sinn Féin gain from Irish ParliamentarySwingN/A
December 1910 general election: Dublin St Stephen's Green[14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Irish ParliamentaryP. J. Brady 3,594 56.5 1.6
Irish UnionistReginald Herbert2,76543.5 1.6
Majority82913.0 3.2
Turnout6,35980.4 4.4
Registered electors7,909
Irish Parliamentary holdSwing 1.6
January 1910 general election: Dublin St Stephen's Green[14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Irish ParliamentaryP. J. Brady 3,683 54.9 6.2
Irish UnionistHenry Daniel Connor3,02145.1 6.2
Majority6629.8 12.4
Turnout6,70484.8 9.5
Registered electors7,909
Irish Parliamentary holdSwing 6.2

Elections in the 1900s

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1906 general election: Dublin St Stephen's Green[14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Irish ParliamentaryLaurence Ambrose Waldron 4,055 61.1 6.7
Irish UnionistWilliam Ireland2,58138.9 6.7
Majority1,47422.2 13.4
Turnout6,63675.3 3.0
Registered electors8,816
Irish Parliamentary holdSwing 6.7
1904 Dublin St Stephen's Green by-election[14][11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Irish ParliamentaryLaurence Ambrose Waldron 3,457 55.1 0.7
Irish UnionistCharles Louis Matheson2,82144.9 0.7
Majority63610.2 1.4
Turnout6,27878.3 6.0
Registered electors8,018
Irish Parliamentary holdSwing 0.7

Death of McCann

1900 general election: Dublin St Stephen's Green[14][8][9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Irish ParliamentaryJames McCann 3,429 54.4 7.7
Irish UnionistJames Campbell2,87345.6 7.7
Majority5568.8N/A
Turnout6,30272.3 6.6
Registered electors8,714
Irish Parliamentary gain from Liberal UnionistSwing 7.7

Elections in the 1890s

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1898 Dublin St Stephen's Green by-election[14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Irish UnionistJames Campbell 3,525 51.0 2.3
Irish National LeagueGeorge Plunkett3,38749.0 2.3
Majority1382.0N/A
Turnout6,91279.1 0.2
Registered electors8,735
Irish Unionist gain from Liberal UnionistSwing 2.3

Kenny appointed a Judge of the High Court

1895 Dublin St Stephen's Green by-election[14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal UnionistWilliam Kenny 3,325 53.5 0.2
Irish National LeaguePierce Mahoney2,89346.5 0.2
Majority4327.0 0.4
Turnout6,21878.9
Registered electors8,697
Liberal Unionist holdSwing 0.2

Kenny appointed Solicitor-General

1895 general election: Dublin St Stephen's Green[14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal UnionistWilliam Kenny 3,661 53.3 8.0
Irish National LeagueGeorge Plunkett3,20546.7 1.6
Majority4566.6 6.4
Turnout6,86678.9 9.0
Registered electors8,697
Liberal Unionist holdSwing 3.2
1892 general election: Dublin St Stephen's Green[14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal UnionistWilliam Kenny 2,893 45.3 11.4
Irish National LeagueJoseph Meade2,87845.1New
Irish National FederationWilliam Lovell Pearson6159.6New
Majority150.2N/A
Turnout6,38687.9 13.5
Registered electors7,261
Liberal Unionist gain from Irish ParliamentarySwingN/A

Elections in the 1880s

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1888 Dublin St Stephen's Green by-election[15]
Registered electors 10,530[16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LiberalThomas Alexander Dickson 4,819 62.2 New
Irish ConservativeRobert Sexton2,93237.8 3.9
Majority1,88724.4N/A
Turnout7,75173.6 0.8
Registered electors10,530
Liberal gain from Irish ParliamentarySwingN/A

Death of Gray

1886 general election: Dublin St Stephen's Green[17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Irish ParliamentaryEdmund Dwyer Gray 5,008 66.1 4.8
Liberal UnionistSir Edward Sullivan, 2nd Baronet2,56533.9 4.8
Majority2,44332.2 9.6
Turnout7,57374.4 10.2
Registered electors10,184
Irish Parliamentary holdSwing 4.8
1885 general election: Dublin St Stephen's Green[18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Irish ParliamentaryEdmund Dwyer Gray 5,277 61.3
Irish ConservativeEdward Guinness3,33438.7
Majority1,94322.6
Turnout8,61184.6
Registered electors10,184
Irish Parliamentary win (new seat)

Notes, citations and sources

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Citations

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  1. ^ "Report of the Boundary Commission (Ireland): Map". Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland. DIPPAM: Documenting Ireland, Parliament, People and Migration. p. 18. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict., c. 23)". Archive.org. Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales. p. 143. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Report of the Boundary Commission (Ireland)". Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland. DIPPAM: Documenting Ireland, Parliament, People and Migration. p. 35. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Redistribution of seats (Ireland) Act, 1918". Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  5. ^ "Government of Ireland Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 67): Fifth Schedule". legislation.gov.uk. The National Archives. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Irish Free State (Agreement) Act 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 4)". Historical Documents. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012.
  7. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 1)
  8. ^ a b Campbell was defeated 'very largely because of the actions of die-hard unionists' - see D.George Boyce, Alan O'Day (editors) 'Defenders of the Union: A Survey of British and Irish Unionism Since 1801', page 123 Archived 15 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ a b 'Unionist abstentionism helped to unseat Campbell' - see Alvin Jackson, 'Ireland 1798-1998: War, Peace and Beyond',page 226 Archived 15 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ 'He lost the seat partly because middle-class Protestants, like their Catholic counterparts, were involved in a widespread flight to the suburbs, where the air was cleaner and the rates lower.' - Pádraig Yeates, 'A City in Wartime – Dublin 1914–1918: The Easter Rising 1916', [1] Archived 15 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ a b '[This] by-election ... revealed how deep the divisions in unionist ranks ran, but it was also a harbinger of the future. Senior figures within the Unionist Party were not inclined to contest the seat, especially as the new nationalist-backed ‘independent’ candidate, Laurence Waldron, was a stockbroker and former unionist who would be a moderating influence in the House of Commons. Several leading business figures, including Sir William Goulding, chairman of the GreatSouthern and Western Railway, and Lord Iveagh, head of the Guinness dynasty, resigned from the Unionist Representative Association in protest at a grass-roots revolt that led to the association supporting the candidacy of Norris Godard, a Crown solicitor. It was a foolish nomination, as Godard could stand only by relinquishing his lucrative government post, which he declined to do. The former Unionist MP for the constituency, James Campbell KC, was available to stand and had the added advantage of being wealthy enough to finance his own campaign, but the Unionist Representative Association would not have him. There followed an unseemly row about the rival candidacies of another lawyer, C. L. Matheson, and Michael McCarthy, a colourful renegade nationalist from Cork who was popular with militant unionists because of his books denouncing the evils of Catholicism. Matheson secured the nomination but, as expected, was defeated by Waldron.' - Pádraig Yeates, 'A City in Wartime – Dublin 1914–1918: The Easter Rising 1916', [2] Archived 15 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine In fact, Campbell had been elected as one of the MPs for Dublin University in 1903. McCarthy's article is at Michael McCarthy (Irish lawyer)
  12. ^ "The Irish General Election of 1918". Ark.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 24 August 2006. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  13. ^ General Election: 14 December 1918 – Dublin St Stephen's Archived 24 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, ElectionsIreland.org
  14. ^ a b c d e f g h i Walker, B. M. Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Royal Irish Academy. p. 346.
  15. ^ The Constitutional Year Book, 1904, published by Conservative Central Office, page 194 (218 in web page)
  16. ^ Walker, Brian Mercer (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. p. 142. ISBN 0-901714-12-7.
  17. ^ Walker, B. M. Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Royal Irish Academy. p. 138.
  18. ^ Walker, B. M. Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Royal Irish Academy. p. 132.

Sources

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  • Walker, Brian M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 345–346, 388. ISBN 0901714127.
  • Boundary Commission (Ireland) established in 1917 to redistribute seats in the House of Commons under the terms of the Representation of the People Bill, 1917 (1917). "Schedule 10 : Parliamentary borough of Dublin" (PDF). Report. Vol. CSO/RP/1917/29520/36. National Archives of Ireland. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 December 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2018.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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