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 ElectionMemberPartyNote 1801-01-01 Arthur Moore 1802-07-24 Rt Hon. George Canning Appointed Treasurer of the Navy 1804-06-04 1806-11-17 Rt Hon. Maurice FitzGerald(The 18th Knight of Kerry) Also returned by and elected to sit for County Kerry 1807-01-17 Samuel Boddington 1807-05-21 Sir Arthur Wellesley Also returned by and elected to sit for Newport (Isle of Wight) 1807-07-27 Evan Foulkes Tory Resigned 1808-02-25 James Stephen 1812-10-27 Henry Arthur Herbert Resigned 1813-06-17 James Evan Baillie 1818-06-29 Edward Denny Later 4th Baronet. Resigned. 1819-05-29 James Cuffe Died 29 July 1828 1820-03-20 1826 1828-09-12 Sir Edward Denny, Bt 3rd Baronet. Resigned. 1829-06-09 Robert Vernon Smith 1831-05-07 Walker Ferrand Tory 1832-12-14 Maurice O'Connell 1837-08-07 John Bateman Conservative Unseated on petition 1838-03-12 Maurice O'Connell 1852-07-15 Died 18 June 1853 1853-07-04 Daniel O'Connell Jnr 1859-05-02 Resigned 1863-05-15 Rt Hon. Thomas O'Hagan Appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland 1865-02-14 Daniel O'Donoghue(The O'Donoghue) 1880-04-01 1885-11-18 Constituency abolished
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 Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Parliament constituencies/Historic constituency names
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)