East Clare (UK Parliament constituency)

For other parliamentary constituencies in County Clare, see Clare (constituency).

East Clare
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1885 (1885)–1922 (1922)
Number of members	One
Created from	Clare and Ennis

East Clare was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament (MP) 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.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the eastern part of County Clare.

Members of Parliament

Years	Member [1]	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

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.

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Notes

1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 4)

References

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