page_title: 1899 Dublin Corporation election
section_title: Post-election boundary extensions
hierarchical_section_title: 1899 Dublin Corporation election / Post-election boundary extensions
caption_attribution_description: English: 1836 map of Dublin City.
context_page_description: An election to Dublin Corporation took place in March 1899 as part of that year's Irish local elections.
context_section_description: At the time of the election Dublin council at the time was composed of 60 members, and was still restricted in area to its historic boundaries, contained to the south by the Grand Canal. This was despite the fact that proposals for extending the municipal borough had existed since the 1880s, in part to deal with the issue whereby residents of the Dublin suburbs had access to and benefited from city services, but were not subject to Dublin municipal taxation. By 1899 Dublin was the only major city in the United Kingdom which had not seen an expansion of its municipal boundaries.
  A private members bill was raised in parliament, proposing to extend Dublins municipal boundaries to include several neighboring townships, and was fiercely opposed by Irish Unionists, although the incumbent Conservative government took a neutral position. The majority of councillors for the townships, who were also Unionists, opposed the plan, and several petitions opposed to the plan were submitted to parliament. Ultimately a deal was made whereby New Kilmainham, Drumcondra, Clonliffe, Glasnevin, and some county land was added to the borough, although the more populous southern townships of Pembroke and Rathmines were not.
  This resulted in the creation of some 5 extra wards, and the total number of councillors was increased to 80. Twenty new members were thus elected in January 1901, of whom 9 were Unionists, thereby bringing Unionist representation up to 16. This meant that by January 1901 Unionists were returned to the 20% representation they enjoyed prior to 1899.
caption: Map of the area contained by the unreformed municipal boundaries.
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