East Tipperary (UK Parliament constituency)

East Tipperary was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament 1885–1922. Prior to the 1885 United Kingdom general election the area was part of the Tipperary (UK Parliament constituency). From 1922 it was not represented in the UK Parliament.

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

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the eastern part of County Tipperary. In 1918, the boundaries were extended to include those parts of the urban districts of Clonmel and Carrick-on-Suir that had been transferred to the South Riding of Tipperary from County Waterford as a result of the 1898 Local Government (Ireland) Act.

1885–1918: The baronies of Iffa and Offa East and Middlethird, and that part of the barony of Slievardagh not contained within the constituency of Mid Tipperary.

1918–1922: The existing constituency of East Tipperary, together with that part of the existing East Waterford constituency contained in the administrative county of Tipperary.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1885, December 1	Thomas Joseph Condon	Irish Parliamentary	Party split
	1890, December ^1		Anti-Parnellite	Joined new organisation
	1891, March ^1		Irish National Federation	Re-elected as an IPP candidate
	1900, October 2		Irish Parliamentary
	1918, December 14 ^2	Pierce McCan	Sinn Féin	Did not take his seat at Westminster
1919, March 6 ^3		vacant
1922, October 26		UK constituency abolished

Notes:-

• ¹ Not an election, but the date of a party change. The Irish Parliamentary Party had been created in 1882, on the initiative of Charles Stewart Parnell's Irish National League. Both the IPP and the INL split into Parnellite and Anti-Parnellite factions, in December 1890. The Parnellites remained members of the Irish National League after the split and the Anti-Parnellites organised the Irish National Federation in March 1891. The two organisations and the United Irish League merged in 1900, to re-create the Irish Parliamentary Party.
• ² 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.
• ³ Not an election. McCan died.

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1885: East Tipperary[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	Thomas Joseph Condon	4,064	95.5
	Irish Conservative	Fitzgibbon Trant	192	4.5
Majority			3,872	91.0
Turnout			4,256	61.7
Registered electors			6,899
	Irish Parliamentary win (new seat)

General election 1886: East Tipperary[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	Thomas Joseph Condon	Unopposed
Registered electors			6,899
	Irish Parliamentary hold

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1892: East Tipperary[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish National Federation	Thomas Joseph Condon	2,998	77.1	N/A
	Irish National League	Patrick Richard Dennehy	891	22.9	N/A
Majority			2,107	54.2	N/A
Turnout			3,889	54.2	N/A
Registered electors			7,180
	Irish National Federation gain from Irish Parliamentary		Swing	N/A

General election 1895: East Tipperary[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish National Federation	Thomas Joseph Condon	Unopposed
Registered electors			6,521
	Irish National Federation hold

Elections in the 1900s

General election 1900: East Tipperary[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	Thomas Joseph Condon	Unopposed
Registered electors			6,366
	Irish Parliamentary hold

General election 1906: East Tipperary[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	Thomas Joseph Condon	Unopposed
Registered electors			5,279
	Irish Parliamentary hold

Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: East Tipperary[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	Thomas Joseph Condon	Unopposed
Registered electors			5,610
	Irish Parliamentary hold

General election December 1910: East Tipperary[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	Thomas Joseph Condon	Unopposed
Registered electors			5,610
	Irish Parliamentary hold

General election 1918: East Tipperary[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Sinn Féin	Pierce McCan	7,487	61.0	New
	Irish Parliamentary	Thomas Joseph Condon	4,794	39.0	N/A
Majority			2,693	22.0	N/A
Turnout			12,281	75.7	N/A
Registered electors			16,232
	Sinn Féin gain from Irish Parliamentary		Swing	N/A

References

1. Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.

• 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 "T" (part 1)