WATCH Pathe Newsreel "Countess Markievicz the only woman candidate returned "
(The first women to take her seat was, in fact, Viscountess Nancy Astor, after a by-election in December 1919).
14th December 1918
In the General Election of 1918 Constance (née Gore-Booth) Markiewicz was the first woman to be elected to the British House of Commons (elected as MP for the St. Patrick’s Division of Dublin). However, as a member of Sinn Féin, she refused to take her seat.
