James Leahy (1822–1896) was an Irish nationalist politician who took his seat in the United Kingdom House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for constituencies in County Kildare from 1880 to 1892.
[2] Leahy was first elected at the 1880 general election, as a Parnellite Home Rule League candidate for the Kildare constituency,[3] In the vital vote of 17 May 1880 in which Parnell displaced William Shaw as chairman of the Parliamentary Party, Leahy voted for Parnell.
However, at the 1892 general election he lost the seat by a wide margin to the Anti-Parnellite Irish National Federation candidate, Matthew Minch.
He was present at the nomination of James Laurence Carew as Parnellite candidate for Dublin College Green on 6 April 1896.
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