South Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)
South Tyrone | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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1885–1922 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Fermanagh and Tyrone |
Created from | Dungannon and Tyrone |
South Tyrone was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland which returned one Member of Parliament from 1885 to 1922, using the first past the post electoral system.
Contents
Boundaries and Boundary Changes
This county constituency comprised the southern part of County Tyrone.
Prior to the 1885 redistribution the area was part of the Tyrone constituency. From 1922 it formed part of the Fermanagh and Tyrone constituency.
Politics
The constituency was a majority unionist area. Sinn Féin and the Independent Nationalist candidate together polled about 2,500 votes less than the Unionist received in 1918.
The First Dáil
Sinn Féin contested the general election of 1918 on the platform that instead of taking up any seats they won in the United Kingdom Parliament, they would establish a revolutionary assembly in Dublin. In republican theory every MP elected in Ireland was a potential Deputy to this assembly. In practice only the Sinn Féin members accepted the offer.
The revolutionary First Dáil assembled on 21 January 1919 and last met on 10 May 1921. The First Dáil, according to a resolution passed on 10 May 1921, was formally dissolved on the assembling of the Second Dáil. This took place on 16 August 1921.
In 1921 Sinn Féin decided to use the UK authorised elections for the Northern Ireland House of Commons and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland as a poll for the Irish Republic's Second Dáil. This area, in republican theory, was incorporated in an eight-member Dáil constituency of Fermanagh and Tyrone of which Sinn Féin won three.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1885 | William O'Brien | Nationalist | |
1886 | Thomas Wallace Russell | Liberal Unionist | |
1902 | Russellite Unionist | ||
1907 | Liberal | ||
Jan 1910 | Andrew Long Horner | Irish Unionist | |
1916 (b) | William Coote | Irish Unionist | |
May 1921 | Ulster Unionist | ||
1922 | constituency abolished |
Elections
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Irish Nationalist | William O'Brien | 3435 | 50.4 | ||
Conservative | Capt. Somerset Henry Maxwell | 3382 | 49.6 | ||
Majority | 53 | 0.8 | |||
Turnout | 7725 | 88.2 | |||
Irish Nationalist gain from new seat | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | Thomas Wallace Russell | 3481 | 50.7 | ||
Irish Nationalist | William O'Brien | 3382 | 49.3 | ||
Majority | 99 | 1.4 | |||
Turnout | 7725 | 88.8 | |||
Liberal Unionist gain from Irish Nationalist | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | Thomas Wallace Russell | 3468 | 52.8 | ||
Liberal | Thomas Alexander Dickson | 3096 | 47.2 | ||
Majority | 372 | 5.6 | |||
Turnout | 7070 | 92.8 | |||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | Thomas Wallace Russell | 3239 | 51.5 | ||
Independent Nationalist | Thomas Shillington | 3046 | 48.5 | ||
Majority | 193 | 3.0 | |||
Turnout | 6730 | 93.4 | |||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | Thomas Wallace Russell | 2499 | 48.0 | ||
Independent Nationalist | Dr Edward Charles Thompson | 2409 | 46.0 | ||
Independent Unionist | Major Robert James Howard | 303 | 5.8 | ||
Majority | 90 | 2.0 | |||
Turnout | 6220 | 83.8 | |||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Russellite Unionist | Thomas Wallace Russell | 2954 | 52.5 | ||
Irish Unionist | Andrew Long Horner KC | 2671 | 47.5 | ||
Majority | 283 | 5.0 | |||
Turnout | 5982 | 94.0 | |||
Russellite Unionist gain from Liberal Unionist | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Irish Unionist | Andrew Long Horner KC | 3054 | 52.4 | ||
Liberal | Rt. Hon. Thomas Wallace Russell | 2770 | 47.6 | ||
Majority | 284 | 4.8 | |||
Turnout | 6059 | 96.1 | |||
Irish Unionist gain from Russellite Unionist | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Irish Unionist | Andrew Long Horner KC | 2962 | 52.7 | ||
Liberal | Robert Nathaniel Boyd | 2662 | 47.3 | ||
Majority | 300 | 5.4 | |||
Turnout | 6059 | 92.8 | |||
Irish Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Irish Unionist | William Coote | unopposed | |||
Turnout | 6434 | ||||
Irish Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Irish Unionist | William Coote | 10,616 | 47.3 | N/A | |
Sinn Féin | Denis McCullagh | 5,437 | 24.2 | N/A | |
Independent Nationalist | John Skeffington | 2,602 | 11.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,179 | N/A | |||
Turnout | 22,465 | N/A | |||
Irish Unionist hold | Swing | N/A |
References
- Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
- Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume II 1886–1918, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (The Harvester Press 1978)
- Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume III 1919–1945, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (The Harvester Press 1979)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
External links
- http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0
- http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/en.toc.dail.html
See also
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Historic constituencies in County Tyrone
- Westminster constituencies in Northern Ireland (historic)
- Dáil Éireann constituencies in Northern Ireland (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1885
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1922