Dublin St Stephen's Green (UK Parliament constituency)

Dublin 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
Number of members	1
Created from	Dublin

St Stephen's Green, a division of Dublin, was a UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the British House of Commons 1885–1922.

Prior to the 1885 general election, the city was the undivided two member Dublin City constituency. In 1885, Dublin was divided into four constituencies: the St Stephen's Green, Dublin College Green, Dublin Harbour and Dublin St Patrick's constituencies.

In 1918, the city was allocated seven seats: in addition to the four existing constituencies, the new divisions were Dublin Clontarf, Dublin St James's and Dublin St Michan's.

From the dissolution of 1922, the area was no longer represented in the UK Parliament.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised parts of the south-east of the city of Dublin, including the area containing its namesake; St Stephen's Green.

Politics

Dublin St Stephen's Green gave Sinn Féin almost two-thirds of its votes. The minority was fairly evenly divided between the Irish Parliamentary Party and the Unionists.

In common with other Sinn Féiners, elected in 1918, the Deputy did not take his seat at Westminster but instead participated in the revolutionary Dáil Éireann.

Members of Parliament

Key to parties: APN Anti-Parnellite Nationalist (Irish Parliamentary Party), Ind N Independent Nationalist, Ind N-H Independent Nationalist (supporter of Timothy Healy), Lab Irish Labour Party, N Nationalist (Irish Parliamentary Party), PN Parnellite Nationalist (Irish Parliamentary Party), SF Sinn Féin, U Unionist, LU Liberal Unionist, L Liberal Party.

	To	Member	Party	Born	Died
1885	1888	Edmund Dwyer Gray	Irish Parliamentary Party	1845	27 March 1888
1888	1892	Thomas Alexander Dickson	Liberal	1833	17 June 1909
1892	1898	William Kenny	Liberal Unionist	14 January 1846	4 February 1921
1898	1900	James Henry Mussen Campbell	Unionist	4 April 1851	22 March 1931
1900^[1]^[2]^[3]	1904	James McCann	Irish Parliamentary Party	1840	14 February 1904
1904^[4]	1910	Laurence Ambrose Waldron	Irish Parliamentary Party	14 November 1858	27 December 1923
1910	1918	Patrick Joseph Brady	Irish Parliamentary Party	1868	20 May 1943
1918	1922	Thomas Kelly	Sinn Féin	13 September 1868	20 April 1942

Elections

This constituency elected its MP using the first past the post electoral system.

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Dublin St Stephen's Green^[5]^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Sinn Féin	Thomas Kelly	8,461	59.93	n/a
	Irish Parliamentary	Patrick Joseph Brady	2,902	20.56	n/a
	Irish Unionist	Henry Hanna	2,755	19.51	n/a
Majority			5,559	39.38	n/a
Turnout			14,118	71.45	n/a
	Sinn Féin win

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1910 (December): Dublin St Stephen's Green^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Irish Parliamentary	P. J. Brady	3,594
	Irish Unionist	Lord Reginald Herbert	2,765
Majority
Turnout
	Irish Parliamentary hold		Swing

General Election 1910 (January): Dublin St Stephen's Green^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Irish Parliamentary	P. J. Brady	3,681
	Irish Unionist	H. D. Connor, K.C.	3,021
Majority
Turnout
	Irish Parliamentary hold		Swing

General Election 1906: Dublin St Stephen's Green^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Irish Parliamentary	Laurence Ambrose Waldron	4,055
	Irish Unionist	William Ireland	2,581
Majority
Turnout
	Irish Parliamentary hold		Swing

Dublin St Stephen's Green by-election, 1904^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Irish Parliamentary	Laurence Ambrose Waldron	3,457
	Irish Unionist	C. L. Matheson, K.C.	2,821
Majority
Turnout
	Irish Parliamentary hold		Swing

General Election 1900: Dublin St Stephen's Green^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Irish Parliamentary	James McCann	3,429
	Irish Unionist	J. H. M. Campbell Q.C.	2,873
Majority
Turnout
	Irish Parliamentary gain from Irish Unionist		Swing

Elections in the 1890s

Dublin St Stephen's Green by-election, 1898^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Irish Unionist	J. H. M. Campbell Q.C.	3,525
	Parnellite Nationalist	Count Plunkett	3,387
Majority
Turnout
	Irish Unionist win

Dublin St Stephen's Green by-election, 1895^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Unionist	William Kenny Q.C.	3,325
	Parnellite Nationalist	Pierce Mahoney	2,893
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1895: Dublin St Stephen's Green^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Unionist	William Kenny Q.C.	3,661
	Parnellite Nationalist	Count Plunkett	3,205
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1892: Dublin St Stephen's Green^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Unionist	William Kenny Q.C.	2,893	45.3	11.4
	Parnellite Nationalist	Joseph Michael Meade LL.D.	2,878	45.1
	Irish National Federation	William Lovell Pearson	615	9.6
Majority			15	0.2
Turnout			6,386	77.3	2.9
	Liberal Unionist win

Elections in the 1880s

Dublin St Stephen's Green by-election, 1888^[8]
Registered electors 10,530^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Thomas Alexander Dickson	4,819	62.3	3.8
	Irish Conservative	Robert Sexton	2,920	37.7	3.8
Majority			1,899	24.5	7.7
Turnout			7,739	73.5	0.9
	Liberal win

General Election 1886: Dublin St Stephen's Green^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Irish Parliamentary	Edmund Dwyer Gray	5,008	66.1	4.8
	Liberal Unionist	Sir Edward Sullivan, bt	2,565	33.9	n/a
Majority			2,443	32.3	9.7
Turnout			7,573	74.4	10.2
	Irish Parliamentary hold		Swing

General Election 1885: Dublin St Stephen's Green^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Irish Parliamentary	Edmund Dwyer Gray	5,277	61.3	n/a
	Irish Conservative	Sir Edward Cecil Guinness, bt	3,334	38.7	n/a
Majority			1,943	22.6	n/a
Turnout			8,611	84.6	n/a
	Irish Parliamentary win

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References

↑ 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
↑ 'Unionist abstentionism helped to unseat Campbell' - see Alvin Jackson, 'Ireland 1798-1998: War, Peace and Beyond',page 226
↑ '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',
↑ '[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 Great Southern 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',
↑ http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/h1918.htm
↑ General Election: 14 December 1918 – Dublin St Stephen's, ElectionsIreland.org
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Walker, B. M. Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Royal Irish Academy. p. 346.
↑ The Constitutional Year Book, 1904, published by Conservative Central Office, page 194 (218 in web page)
↑ Walker, Brian Mercer (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. p. 142. ISBN 0 901714 12 7.
↑ Walker, B. M. Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Royal Irish Academy. p. 138.
↑ Walker, B. M. Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Royal Irish Academy. p. 132.

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 "S" (part 1)

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