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Tralee (UK Parliament constituency)

Tralee is a former borough constituency in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, returning one Member of Parliament (MP) for the parliamentary borough of Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland from 1801 to 1885.

History

Tralee was a two-seat constituency in the Irish House of Commons. Under the Acts of Union 1800, which came into effect on 1 January 1801, it was one of the constituencies represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, with its representation reduced to one seat. The member who sat in the First Parliament of the United Kingdom was chosen by lot. The borough was disfranchised under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, which took effect at the 1885 general election. The area was thereafter represented by the county constituency of West Kerry.

Notable MPs included George Canning, later Prime Minister in 1827, Arthur Wellesley, later Prime Minister from 1828 to 1830 (as the Duke of Wellington), and Thomas O'Hagan, later Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1868 to 1874 and 1880 to 1881.

Boundaries

The Parliamentary Boundaries (Ireland) Act 1832 defined the boundaries of the parliamentary borough as:

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

Vernon Smith was appointed as a Commissioner of the Treasury, requiring a by-election.

  • On petition, tendered votes were allowed, altering total votes to 133 for O'Connell and 111 for Bateman, allowing O'Connell to be declared elected.

Elections in the 1840s

Elections in the 1850s

O'Connell's death caused a by-election.

Elections in the 1860s

O'Connell resigned, causing a by-election.

O'Hagan resigned after being appointed a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, causing a by-election.

Elections in the 1870s

Elections in the 1880s

See also

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)