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1917 Kilkenny City by-election
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UK Parliamentary by-election
August 2019
August 2019
The 1917 Kilkenny City by-election was held on 10 August 1917. It followed the death of the incumbent Irish Parliamentary Party MP, Pat O'Brien. It was won by the Sinn Féin candidate W. T. Cosgrave,May 2021 who defeated John Magennis, a three-time Mayor of Kilkenny. Cosgrave won while he was in prison for his role in the Easter Rising.
Magennis went on to be Mayor on three more occasions, while Cosgrave went on to serve for ten years as President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.
Result
Kilkenny City by-election, 1917
Sinn Féin
W. T. Cosgrave
772
66.3
New
Irish Parliamentary Party
John Magennis
392
33.7
N/A
380
32.6
N/A
1,164
68.4
N/A
Sinn Féin
Irish Parliamentary Party
N/A
References
Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in County Kilkenny constituencies
Category:1917 elections in the United Kingdom
Category:1917 elections in Ireland
Category:August 1917 in the United Kingdom