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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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| 13 December 1832 | 562 | ||
| Irish Repeal | Unopposed | ||
| 10 January 1835 | 7/599 | 1.17 | |
| Irish Repeal (Whig) | 7 | 100.00 | |
| Majority | 7 | 100.00 | |
| May 1836 Resignation of Richard Sullivan. (Chiltern Hundreds) | |||
| 17 May 1836 | |||
| Irish Repeal | Unopposed | ||
| 7 August 1837 | 125/775 | 16.13 | |
| Radical | 57 | 45.60 | |
| Irish Repeal (Whig) | 50 | 40.00 | |
| Radical | 18 | 14.40 | |
| Majority | 7 | 5.60 | |
| 3 July 1841 | 580 | ||
| Irish Repeal | Unopposed | ||
| 4 August 1847 | 443 | ||
| Irish Repeal | Unopposed | ||
| 1847 John O'Connell elects to sit for Limerick City. | |||
| 18 December 1847 | |||
| Irish Repeal | Unopposed | ||
| 10 July 1852 | 384/664 | 57.83 | |
| Independent Irish | 213 | 55.47 | |
| Whig | 171 | 44.53 | |
| Majority | 42 | 10.94 | |
| 12 April 1857 | 531 | ||
| Independent Irish | Unopposed | ||
| 5 May 1859 | 446/585 | 76.24 | |
| Liberal Party | 236 | 52.91 | |
| Liberal Party | 210 | 47.09 | |
| Majority | 26 | 5.83 | |
| 13 July 1865 | 574 | ||
| Liberal Party | Unopposed | ||
| 17 November 1868 | 740 | ||
| Liberal Party | Unopposed | ||
| 2 February 1874 | 620 | ||
| Home Rule | Unopposed | ||
| 9 April 1875 Death of Sir John Gray. | |||
| 29 April 1875 | 544/690 | 78.84 | |
| Liberal Party | 307 | 56.43 | |
| Home Rule | 125 | 22.98 | |
| Home Rule | 112 | 20.59 | |
| Majority | 182 | 33.46 | |
| 18 February 1880 Resignation of Benjamin Whitworth in order to contest Drogheda. (Northstead) | |||
| 27 February 1880 | 675 | ||
| Home Rule | Unopposed | ||
| 3 April 1880 | 522/675 | 77.33 | |
| Home Rule | 318 | 60.92 | |
| Home Rule | 204 | 39.08 | |
| Majority | 114 | 21.84 | |
| 24 November 1885 | 1,899 | ||
| Nationalist | Unopposed | ||
| 2 July 1886 | 1,899 | ||
| Nationalist | Unopposed | ||
| July 1892 | 1,348/1,348 | 100.00 | |
| Nationalist | 744 | 55.19 | |
| Parnellite Nationalist | 604 | 44.81 | |
| Majority | 140 | 10.39 | |
| 17 July 1895 | 1,348/1,769 | 76.20 | |
| Nationalist | 681 | 50.52 | |
| Anti-Parnellite Nationalist | 667 | 49.48 | |
| Majority | 14 | 1.04 | |
| 2 October 1900 | 2,556 | ||
| Nationalist | Unopposed | ||
| 13 January 1906 | 1,533 | ||
| Nationalist | Unopposed | ||
| 15 January 1910 | 1,742 | ||
| Nationalist | Unopposed | ||
| 4 December 1910 | 1,742 | ||
| Nationalist | Unopposed | ||
| 12 July 1917 Death of Patrick O'Brien. | |||
| 10 August 1917 | 1,164/1,702 | 68.39 | |
| Sinn Féin | 772 | 66.32 | |
| Nationalist | 392 | 33.68 | |
| Majority | 380 | 32.65 | |