East Clare (UK Parliament constituency)

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East Clare County constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1922
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	One

East Clare was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament 1885-1922.

Prior to the United Kingdom general election, 1885 the area was part of the Clare constituency. From 1922 it was not represented in the UK Parliament.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

This constituency comprised the eastern part of County Clare.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Years	Member	Party
1885–1892	Joseph Richard Cox	Irish Parliamentary Party
1892–1900	Willie Redmond	Parnellite Nationalist
1900–1917		Irish Parliamentary Party
1917–1922	Éamon de Valera	Sinn Féin

[edit] Elections

Clare East by-election 10 July 1917
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Sinn Féin	Éamon de Valera	5,010		N/A
	Irish Parliamentary	Patrick Lynch	2,035		N/A
Majority			2,975		N/A
Turnout					N/A
	Sinn Féin gain from Irish Parliamentary		Swing	N/A

Note: The 1917 by-election was the first electoral contest in the constituency in 22 years.

[edit] References

• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)