Londonderry City (UK Parliament constituency)

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Londonderry City Borough constituency
Created:	1801
Abolished:	1922
Type:	House of Commons

Londonderry City was a former United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland.

Contents 1 Boundaries and Boundary Changes 2 Politics 3 Members of Parliament 4 Elections 5 References 6 See also

[edit] Boundaries and Boundary Changes

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

It returned one Member of Parliament 1801-1922.

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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Members of Parliament

• Constituency created (1801)
• 1801–1802 Henry Alexander
• 1802–1830 Sir George Hill
• 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 John MacNeill (Sinn Fein)
• Constituency abolished (1922)

This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

[edit] Elections

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

General Election 14 December 1918: Londonderry City
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Sinn Féin	Professor Eoin MacNeill	7,335		N/A
	Irish Unionist	Sir Robert Newton Anderson	7,020		N/A
	Irish Parliamentary	William Hamilton Davey	120		N/A
Majority			315		N/A
Turnout			16,736		N/A
	Sinn Féin gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A

[edit] 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)

[edit] See 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