Queen's County (UK Parliament constituency)

Queen's County
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Replaced by	Queen's County Leix and Queen's County Ossory
1918–1922
Created from	Queen's County Leix and Queen's County Ossory

Queen's County was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament 1801–1885 and one in 1918–1922.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of Queen's County now known as County Laois, except for the Parliamentary borough of Portarlington 1801–1885.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1801–1885

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1801		Sir John Parnell, Bt			Charles Coote
1801, 28 December		Hon. William Wellesley-Pole	Tory
1802, 5 April					Henry Parnell	Whig
1802, 23 July					Sir Eyre Coote
1806, 17 February					Sir Henry Parnell	Whig
1821, 27 August		Sir Charles Coote, Bt	Conservative
1832, 24 December					Patrick Lalor	Repeal Association
1835, 20 January					Hon. Thomas Vesey	Conservative
1837, 15 August					John FitzPatrick	Whig
1841, 10 July		Hon. Thomas Vesey	Conservative		Sir Charles Coote, Bt	Conservative
1847, 7 August					John FitzPatrick	Whig
1852, 19 July		Michael Dunne	Irish Brigade		Sir Charles Coote, Bt	Conservative
1859, 10 May			Liberal		Francis Plunkett Dunne	Conservative
1865, 22 July		John FitzPatrick	Liberal
1868, 23 November					Kenelm Thomas Digby	Liberal
1870, 4 January		Edmund Dease
1880, 8 April		Richard Lalor	Home Rule League		Arthur O'Connor	Irish Parliamentary Party
1885	Constituency divided: see Queen's County Leix and Queen's County Ossory

MPs 1885–1918

Election		Member	Party	Note
1918		Single member constituency created
	1918, December 14 1	Kevin Christopher O'Higgins	Sinn Féin	Did not take his seat at Westminster
1922, October 26		UK constituency abolished

Note:-

• ¹ Date of polling day. The result was declared on 28 December 1918, to allow time for votes cast by members of the armed forces to be included in the count.

Elections

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References

• The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844–50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
• 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 "Q"