Mid Cork (UK Parliament constituency)

For the 1961–1981 constituency, see Cork Mid (Dáil Éireann constituency).

Mid Cork
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1922
Number of members	One
Created from	County Cork

Mid Cork, a division of County Cork, was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1885 to 1922 it returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Until the 1885 general election the area was part of the Cork County constituency. From 1922 it was not represented in the UK Parliament, as it was no longer in the UK.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the central part of County Cork.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Charles Kearns Deane Tanner	Irish Parliamentary Party
	1891		Anti-Parnellite
	1900		Irish Parliamentary Party
	1901 by-election	Daniel Desmond Sheehan	Irish Parliamentary Party
	1906		Irish Parliamentary Party
	1906 by-election		Independent Labour
	1910 (Jan)		All-for-Ireland League
	1910 (Dec)		All-for-Ireland League
	1918	Terence Joseph McSwiney	Sinn Féin
	1920	vacant
	1922	constituency abolished

Elections

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1901

Charles Kearns Deane Tanner died in office and was succeeded by Daniel Desmond Sheehan (Irish Parliamentary Party) at a constituency by-election on 17 May 1901, where he stood unopposed.

1906

After being returned unopposed in the 1906 general election, Sheehan was expelled from the IPP on the grounds of being a "factionist" and, in protest and to re-emphasize his public support, he resigned the seat and re-stood as an Independent (Labour) candidate in the resulting by-election.

31 December 1906 (by-election)
Candidate	Party	Votes
Daniel Desmond Sheehan	Independent Labour	returned unopposed

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 "C" (part 5)