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The Irish component of the December 1910 United Kingdom general election took place between 3 and 19 December, concurrently with the polls in Great Britain. Though the national result was a deadlock between the Conservatives and the Liberals, the result in Ireland was, as was the trend by now, a large victory for the Irish Parliamentary Party.
This is a list of the 103 MPs who were elected for Irish seats at the 1910 United Kingdom general election (December). ... Irish Parliamentary: Membership changes
Irish Parliamentary: Irish Unionist: All-for-Ireland: Leader since 1900 1910 15 January 1910 Leader's seat Waterford City: Dublin University: Cork City: Seats before 81 16 New Party: Seats won 71: 20 8 Seat change 10 4 New Party: Popular vote 74,047 68,982 23,605 Percentage 35.1% 32.7% 11.2%
The Liberal Party under Asquith remained in government with the support of the Irish Parliamentary Party. This was the last election in which the Liberals won the highest number of seats in the House of Commons. It was also the last United Kingdom general election in which a party other than Labour or the Conservatives won the most seats.
11 September – English-born actor-aviator Robert Loraine made an aeroplane flight from Wales across the Irish Sea but landed some 200 feet (60 metres) short of the Irish coast in Dublin Bay. [3] [4] 20 October – RMS Olympic was launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast. At 45,324 gross tons, she was the largest ship afloat.
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected at the December 1910 general election, held over several days from 3 December to 19 December 1910. Table of contents: Floor crossings · By-elections
The results set up members from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael for relatively straightforward negotiations, with the two parties securing a combined 86 seats out of the 88 required to govern.
1910 Barnstaple by-election; December 1910 United Kingdom general election; List of MPs elected in the December 1910 United Kingdom general election; 1910 Govan by-election; List of United Kingdom MPs who only sat in the February–November 1910 Parliament; 1910 Reading by-election; 1910 Rotherham by-election; 1910 Shipley by-election