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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.
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%
Winner Party Constituency Date Parliament Outgoing Party Reason for vacancy Augustine Roche: IPP: North Louth: 15 March 1911 Richard Hazleton: IPP: Void election
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected at the January 1910 general election, held over several days from 15 January to 10 February 1910. [ 1 ] Contents
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.
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.
Results of the 1918 election in Ireland by MPs elected. Sinn Féin MPs refused to sit in the House of Commons and instead formed Dáil Éireann. The Irish Parliamentary Party, Irish Unionist Alliance, Labour Unionist Party and an independent Unionist MP remained in Westminster.
January 1910 United Kingdom general election; January 1910 United Kingdom general election in Ireland; December 1910 United Kingdom general election in Ireland; 1910 Dublin Harbour by-election; 1910 North Down by-election; 1910 North East Cork by-election; 1910 West Wicklow by-election