Dublin St Patrick's (UK Parliament constituency)

Dublin St Patrick's
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Dublin St Patrick's constituency within Dublin, as it existed from 1885 to 1918.
Dublin within Ireland. Map utilises the modern administrative boundaries.
1885–1922
Seats	1
Created from	Dublin

Dublin St Patrick's, 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. It had three wards – Merchant's Quay, Usher's Quay and Wood Quay.

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 Patrick's, Dublin College Green, Dublin Harbour and Dublin St Stephen's Green 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 part of the city of Dublin.

Politics

Dublin St Patrick's in 1918 gave Sinn Féin about two-thirds of its votes. Countess Markievicz was the first woman to win a Parliamentary election in Britain and Ireland, at the first election where women were allowed to be candidates.

In common with other Sinn Féin members, elected in 1918, the MP did not take her seat at Westminster but instead participated in the revolutionary Dáil Éireann.

Members of Parliament

From	To	Name	Party		Born	Died
1885	1892	William Martin Murphy	style="background: Template:Irish Parliamentary Party/meta/color;" |	Nationalist (IPP)¹	November 21, 1844	26 June 1919
1892	1918	William Field	style="background: Template:Irish Parliamentary Party/meta/color;" |	Parnellite Nationalist (IPP)	June 1843	29 April 1935
1918	1922	Constance Markievicz	style="background: Template:Sinn Féin/meta/color;" |	Sinn Féin	4 February 1868	15 July 1927

Notes

1. Anti-Parnellite Nationalist (IPP) from December 1890.

Elections

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

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Dublin St Patrick's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Sinn Féin	Constance Markievicz	7,835	65.85	n/a
	Irish Parliamentary	William Field	3,752	31.53	n/a
	Independent Nationalist	James Joseph Kelly	312	2.62	n/a
Majority			4,083	34.31	n/a
Turnout			11,899	63.34	n/a
	Sinn Féin win

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 "S" (part 1)