Londonderry City (UK Parliament constituency)

Londonderry City (UK Parliament constituency)

UK former constituency infobox
Name = Londonderry City
Type = Borough
Year = 1801
Abolition = 1922
members = One

Londonderry City was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system .

Boundaries and Boundary Changes

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Londonderry in County Londonderry.

It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January, 1801. In 1922 it was combined with North Londonderry and South Londonderry, to form the Londonderry county constituency.

Politics

After the extension of the franchise in 1885, the constituency was one of the most marginal seats in Ireland. There were many close elections.

Sinn Féin won in 1918. The MP (best known in Irish history as Professor Eoin MacNeill) was also returned by National University of Ireland. As MacNeill did not take his seat in the United Kingdom House of Commons he could not choose which constituency he would represent and arrange a by-election in the other. He played an active role in the First Dáil and in the government it set up.

Members of Parliament

* "Constituency created (1801)"
* 1801–1802 Henry Alexander
* 1802–1830 Sir George Fitzgerald Hill, Bt (Tory)
* 1830–1860 Sir Robert Alexander Ferguson (Whig, Liberal Party 1832)
* 1860–1865 William McCormick (Conservative Party)
* 1865–1868 Lord Claud John Hamilton (Conservative Party)
* 1868–1872 Richard Dowse (Liberal Party)
* 1872–1886 Charles Edward Lewis (Conservative Party)
* 1886–1892 Justin McCarthy (Irish Parliamentary Party)
* 1892–1895 John Ross (Conservative Party)
* 1895–1899 Edmund Francis Vesey Knox (Irish Parliamentary Party)
* 1899 (by-election)–1900 Arthur John Moore (Irish Parliamentary Party)
* 1900–1913 Marquess of Hamilton (Conservative Party, Ulster Unionist Party)
* 1913 (by-election)–1914 David Cleghorn Hogg (Liberal Party)
* 1914 (by-election)–1918 James Brown Dougherty (Liberal Party)
* 1918–1922 Eoin MacNeill (Sinn Féin)
* "Constituency abolished (1922)"

Elections

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

Election box begin
title=General Election 14 December 1918: Londonderry City
Election box candidate with party link
party = Sinn Féin
candidate = Eoin MacNeill
votes = 7,335
percentage =
change = "N/A"
Election box candidate with party link
party = Irish Unionist Party
candidate = Sir Robert Newton Anderson
votes = 7,020
percentage =
change = "N/A"
Election box candidate with party link
party = Irish Parliamentary Party
candidate = William Hamilton Davey
votes = 120
percentage =
change = "N/A"
Election box majority
votes = 315
percentage =
change = "N/A"
Election box turnout
votes = 16,736
percentage =
change = "N/A"
Election box gain with party link
winner = Sinn Féin
loser = Liberal Party (UK)
swing = "N/A"

References

*"The Parliaments of England" by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
*"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 I 1832-1885", edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)
*"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)
*Rayment

ee also

* List of UK Parliament Constituencies in Ireland and Northern Ireland
* Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918
* MPs elected in the UK general election, 1918
* List of Dáil Éireann constituencies in Ireland (historic)
* Members of the 1st Dáil


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