South County Dublin (UK Parliament constituency)

For the 1969–1981 constituency, see Dublin County South (Dáil Éireann constituency).

South Dublin
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1922
Number of members	1

South Dublin was a county constituency in Ireland from 1885 to 1922. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, using the first past the post voting system.

Prior to the 1885 general election the area was part of the Dublin County constituency. From 1922 it was not represented in the UK Parliament.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the south-eastern part of County Dublin.

From 1885–1918, it was a strip along the coast south of the city of Dublin to the county boundary. The constituency was bounded by the city of Dublin to the north, North Dublin to the west, East Wicklow to the south and the sea to the east. It included Dalkey, Kingstown, Blackrock, Stillorgan, Glencullen.

In 1918–1922 South Dublin was the southernmost of three constituencies south of the city of Dublin. The constituency boundary was also pushed a little further west than that of its previous incarnation had been. The other two successor constituencies to the 1885–1918 South Dublin were Rathmines, south of the city of Dublin, and Pembroke to the north of South Dublin. The other surrounding constituencies were unchanged.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde	Irish Parliamentary Party
	1891		Anti-Parnellite
	1892	Horace Plunkett	Unionist
	1900	John Joseph Mooney	Irish Parliamentary Party
	1906	Walter Hume Long	Unionist
	Jan. 1910	Bryan Cooper	Unionist
	Dec. 1910	William Francis Cotton	Irish Parliamentary Party
	1917 by-election	Michael Louis Hearn	Irish Parliamentary Party
	1918	George Gavan Duffy	Sinn Féin
	1922	constituency abolished

Elections

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Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: South County Dublin

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Sinn Féin	George Gavan Duffy	5,133	38.58	n/a
	Irish Unionist		4,354	32.72	n/a
	Irish Parliamentary		3,819	28.70	n/a
Majority					n/a
Turnout			13,306		n/a
	Sinn Féin win

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1886: South County Dublin Registered electors 11,316
(Population 72,636)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	Sir T. H. G. Esmonde	5,022	60.69	2.9
	Liberal Unionist	J. T. Pim	3,254	39.32	n/a
Turnout			8,276	73.14	5.07
	Irish Parliamentary hold		Swing

General Election 1885: South County Dublin

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	Sir T. H. G. Esmonde	5,114	57.79	n/a
	Irish Conservative	Ion. T. Hamilton	3,736	42.21	n/a
Majority			1,378	15.58	n/a
Turnout			8,850	78.21	n/a
	Irish Parliamentary 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 "D" (part 3)