Fermanagh and Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)

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Fermanagh and Tyrone
County constituency
Created: 1922
Abolished: 1950
Type: House of Commons

Fermanagh and Tyrone was a Parliamentary Constituency in the British House of Commons.

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[edit] Boundaries

The constituency was formed from the constituencies of Fermanagh North, Fermanagh South, Tyrone North-East, Tyrone North-West and Tyrone South. It covered County Fermanagh and County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, within which it was the only constituency to regularly elect Nationalist MPs. It was abolished in 1950. Much of the constituency then became Fermanagh and South Tyrone, the remainder part of Mid Ulster.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Nationalist MPs were elected in every general election and by-election held in the constituency, except for the 1924 UK general election, when no Nationalist stood and two Ulster Unionists defeated two Sinn Féin candidates.

Election MP Party MP Party
1922 Thomas Harbison Nationalist (NI) Cahir Healy Nationalist (NI)
1924 James Alexander Pringle Ulster Unionist Charles Fausset Falls Ulster Unionist
1929 Thomas Harbison Nationalist (NI) Joseph Devlin Nationalist (NI)
1931 by-election Cahir Healy Nationalist (NI)
1934 by-election Joseph Francis Stewart Nationalist (NI)
1935 Patrick Cunningham Nationalist (NI) Anthony Mulvey Nationalist (NI)

[edit] Elections

General Election 1945: Fermanagh and Tyrone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist (NI) Patrick Cunningham 55,373 27.3 + 1.1
Nationalist (NI) Anthony Mulvey 55,144 27.1 + 1.0
Ulster Unionist Thomas Lyons 46,392 22.8 - 1.2
Ulster Unionist Noreen Cooper 46,260 22.8 - 0.9
Majority 8,752
Turnout
Nationalist (NI) hold Swing
General Election 1935: Fermanagh and Tyrone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist (NI) Patrick Cunningham 50,891 26.2 - 0.3
Nationalist (NI) Anthony Mulvey 50,603 26.1 - 0.3
Ulster Unionist Roland Deane 46,625 24.0 + 0.4
Ulster Unionist John Houston 46,000 23.7 + 0.2
Majority 3,078
Turnout
Nationalist (NI) hold Swing
Fermanagh and Tyrone by-election, 1934
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist (NI) Joseph Francis Stewart 28,790 61.4 N/A
Ind. Nationalist Dominick McCrossan 18,809 38.6 N/A
Majority 10,701
Turnout
Nationalist (NI) hold Swing N/A
General Election 1931: Fermanagh and Tyrone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist (NI) Joseph Devlin 50,650 26.5 N/A
Nationalist (NI) Cahir Healy 50,603 26.1 N/A
Ulster Unionist Hugh Irwin 45,101 23.6 N/A
Ulster Unionist Ynyr Burges 44,921 23.5 N/A
Majority 5,502
Turnout
Nationalist (NI) hold Swing
Fermanagh and Tyrone by-election, 1931
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist (NI) Cahir Healy unopposed N/A N/A
Nationalist (NI) hold Swing N/A
General Election 1929: Fermanagh and Tyrone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist (NI) Joseph Devlin unopposed N/A N/A
Nationalist (NI) Thomas Harbison unopposed N/A N/A
Nationalist (NI) gain from Ulster Unionist Swing N/A
General Election 1924: Fermanagh and Tyrone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ulster Unionist Charles Falls 44,716 43.5 + 20.4
Ulster Unionist James Pringle 44,711 43.4 + 20.3
Sinn Féin Michael McCartan 6,812 6.6 N/A
Sinn Féin Thomas Corrigan 6,685 6.5 N/A
Majority 37,899
Turnout
Ulster Unionist gain from Nationalist (NI) Swing
General Election 1923: Fermanagh and Tyrone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist (NI) Thomas Harbison 44,003 27.0 0.0
Nationalist (NI) Cahir Healy 43,668 26.8 0.0
Ulster Unionist James Pringle 37,733 23.1 0.0
Ulster Unionist Charles Falls 37,682 23.1 0.0
Majority 5,935
Turnout
Nationalist (NI) hold Swing


General Election 1922: Fermanagh and Tyrone
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist (NI) Thomas Harbison 45,236 27.0 N/A
Nationalist (NI) Cahir Healy 44,817 26.8 N/A
Ulster Unionist James Pringle 38,640 23.1 N/A
Ulster Unionist William James Allen 38,589 23.1 N/A
Majority 6,177 N/A
Turnout N/A
Nationalist (NI) hold Swing N/A

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