County Leitrim was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It returned two MPs from 1801 to 1885 and one from 1918 to 1922.
Boundaries This constituency comprised the whole of County Leitrim.
Members of Parliament MPs 1801–85 Election1st Member1st Party2nd Member2nd Party 1801 Nathaniel Clements, Viscount Clements, later Earl of Leitrim Whig Theophilus Jones Tory 1802 Peter La Touche Whig 1805 by-election Henry John Clements Tory 1806 William Gore 1807 John La Touche Whig 1818 Luke White Tory 1820 John Marcus Clements Tory 1824 by-election Samuel White Whig 1826 Robert Clements, Viscount Clements Whig 1830 John Marcus Clements Tory 1832 Robert Clements, Viscount Clements Whig 1839 by-election William Clements, Viscount Clements, later Earl of Leitrim Whig 1847 Edward King-Tenison Whig Charles Skeffington Clements Whig 1852Hugh Lyons-Montgomery Conservative John Brady Ind. Irish 1858 by-election William Ormsby-Gore, later Baron Harlech Conservative 1859 Liberal 1865 1868 1874 Home Rule 1876 by-election Francis O'Beirne Home Rule 1880 Arthur Loftus Tottenham Conservative 1885 Constituency divided: see North Leitrim and South Leitrim
MPs 1918–22 ElectionMemberPartyNote1918 Single member constituency created 1918, December 1414 December was the 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. James Dolan Sinn Féin Did not take his seat at Westminster1922, October 26 UK constituency abolished
Elections Elections in the 1830s
Clements' death caused a by-election.
Elections in the 1840s
Elections in the 1850s
Montgomery resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Manor of Hempholme, causing a by-election.
Elections in the 1860s
Elections in the 1870s
Gore succeeded to the peerage, becoming Lord Harlech, and causing a by-election.
Elections in the 1880s
Elections in the 1910s
Notes
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)