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Portarlington was a rotten borough and is a former United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January, 1801.

Boundaries

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Portarlington in Queen's County now called County Laois.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1801	Frederick Trench
	Mar. 1801	William Elliot
	Jul. 1802	Henry Brook Parnell	Whig
	Dec. 1802	Thomas Tyrwhitt
	Mar. 1806	John Langston
	Nov. 1806	Sir Oswald Mosley, Bt
	1807	Hon. William Lamb	Whig
	1812	Arthur Shakespeare
	1816	Richard Sharp
	1819	David Ricardo	Whig
	1824	James Farquhar	Tory
	1830	Sir Charles Ogle, Bt	Tory
	1831	Sir William Rae, Bt	Tory
	1832	Thomas Gladstone	Conservative
	1835	George Lionel Dawson-Damer	Conservative
	1847	Francis Plunket Dunne	Liberal
	1852	Francis Plunket Dunne	Conservative
	1857	Lionel Dawson-Damer	Conservative
	1865	James Anthony Lawson	Liberal
	1868	Lionel Dawson-Damer	Conservative
	1880	Bernard FitzPatrick	Conservative
	1883	Robert Abraham Brewster French-Brewster	Conservative
1885		constituency abolished

Elections

References

The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)