Queen's County was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament from 1801 to 1885 and one from 1918 to 1922.
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This constituency comprised the whole of Queen's County, now known as County Laois, except for the parliamentary borough of Portarlington 1801–1885.
MPs 1801–1885
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1801 |
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Sir John Parnell, Bt |
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Charles Coote |
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1801, 28 December |
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Hon. William Wellesley-Pole |
Tory[1] |
1802, 5 April |
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Henry Parnell |
Whig[1] |
1802, 23 July |
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Sir Eyre Coote |
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1806, 17 February |
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Sir Henry Parnell |
Whig[1] |
1821, 27 August |
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Sir Charles Coote, Bt |
Tory[1][2] |
1832, 24 December |
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Patrick Lalor |
Repeal Association[2] |
1834, 18 December |
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Conservative[1][2] |
1835, 20 January |
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Hon. Thomas Vesey |
Conservative[1][2] |
1837, 15 August |
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John FitzPatrick |
Whig[1][3][4] |
1841, 10 July |
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Hon. Thomas Vesey |
Conservative[1][2] |
1847, 7 August |
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John FitzPatrick |
Whig[1][3][4] |
1852, 19 July |
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Michael Dunne |
Ind. Irish[2] |
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Sir Charles Coote, Bt |
Conservative[2] |
1857, 11 April |
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Whig |
1859, 10 May |
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Liberal[2] |
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Francis Plunkett Dunne |
Conservative[2] |
1865, 22 July |
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John FitzPatrick |
Liberal[2] |
1868, 23 November |
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Kenelm Thomas Digby |
Liberal[2] |
1870, 4 January |
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Edmund Dease[5] |
Liberal[2] |
1874, 7 February |
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Home Rule League[2] |
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Home Rule League[2] |
1880, 8 April |
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Richard Lalor |
Parnellite Home Rule League[2] |
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Arthur O'Connor |
Parnellite Home Rule League[2] |
1885 |
Constituency divided: see Queen's County Leix and Queen's County Ossory |
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MPs 1918–1922
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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 in the 1830s
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Parnell was appointed as Secretary of State for War, requiring a by-election.
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Elections in the 1840s
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Elections in the 1860s
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Elections in the 1870s
FitzPatrick was made Lord Castletown, causing a by-election.
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Elections in the 1910s
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Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 235–236, 308–309, 395. ISBN 0901714127.
Salmon, Philip. "Queen's Co". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 21 May 2020.