North West Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)

North West Tyrone
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1922
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Fermanagh and Tyrone
Created from	Mid Tyrone and North Tyrone

North West Tyrone was a UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the British House of Commons from 1918 to 1922.

Boundaries and boundary changes

This county constituency comprised the north-western part of County Tyrone.

Prior to the United Kingdom general election, 1918 the area was the North Tyrone and part of the Mid Tyrone constituencies. From the dissolution of Parliament in 1922 North West Tyrone became part of the Fermanagh and Tyrone seat.

Politics

The constituency was a predominantly Sinn Féin area in 1918. The Unionists had significant but minority support.

Arthur Griffith was also elected for East Cavan, but as he did not take his seat in the United Kingdom House of Commons he could not choose which area he would represent and trigger a by-election in the other.

Griffith died on 12 August 1922. Sinn Féin MPs were not prepared to attend the House of Commons, to apply for the writ for a by-election, so this seat was vacant at the dissolution of Parliament on 26 October 1922.

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. Tyrone North West, in republican theory, was incorporated in an eight-member Dáil constituency of Fermanagh and Tyrone.

Member of Parliament 1918–1922

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Arthur Griffith	Sinn Féin
1922		constituency abolished

Election

The election in this constituency took place using the first past the post electoral system.

General Election 14 December 1918: North West Tyrone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Sinn Féin	Arthur Griffith	10,442	57.57	N/A
	Irish Unionist	William Thomas Miller	7,696	42.43	N/A
Majority			2,746	15.14	N/A
Turnout			22,182	81.77	N/A
	Sinn Féin gain from new seat		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 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)

External links

Parliamentary constituencies in County Tyrone

Parliament of Ireland
to 1800

Augher (1614–1800)
Clogher (1264–1800)
Dungannon (1613–1800)
Strabane (???–1800)
Tyrone (???–1800)

Westminster
1801–present

Historic	Dungannon (1801–85) Fermanagh & Tyrone (1922–50) Tyrone (1801–1885) East Tyrone (1885–1918) Mid Tyrone (1885–1918) North Tyrone (1885–1918) North-East Tyrone (1918–22) North-West Tyrone (1918–22) South Tyrone (1885–1922)

Current	Fermanagh & South Tyrone (1950—) West Tyrone (1997—) Mid Ulster (1950—)

Dáil Éireann
Revolutionary era 1919–22

First Dáil
1919–21

Seats taken	(none)

Seats not taken	North East Tyrone South Tyrone

Second Dáil
1921–22

One or more seats taken	Fermanagh & Tyrone

No seats taken	(none)

Parliament of Northern Ireland
1921–72

East Tyrone (1929–72)
Mid Tyrone (1929–72)
North Tyrone (1929–72)
South Tyrone (1929–72)
West Tyrone (1929–72)

Northern Ireland Assemblies

Assembly 1973–74 Constitutional Convention 1975–76 Assembly 1982–86	Fermanagh & South Tyrone Mid Ulster

Northern Ireland Forum 1996–98 Assembly (1998–present)	Fermanagh & South Tyrone Mid Ulster West Tyrone

European Parliament
1979–present

Northern Ireland (1979—)

Constituencies in Ireland by county

Republic of Ireland	Carlow Cavan Clare Cork Donegal Dublin Galway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Laois Leitrim Limerick Longford Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan Offaly Roscommon Sligo Tipperary Waterford Westmeath Wexford Wicklow

Northern Ireland	Antrim Armagh Down Fermanagh Londonderry Tyrone

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