North Donegal (UK Parliament constituency)

North Donegal was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament 1885–1922.

Prior to the United Kingdom general election, 1885 the area was part of the Donegal constituency. From 1922 it was not represented in the UK Parliament.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the northern part of County Donegal.

Members of Parliament

Notes:-

• ¹ Not an election, but the date of a party change. The Irish Parliamentary Party had been created in 1882, on the initiative of Charles Stewart Parnell's Irish National League. Both the IPP and the INL split into Parnellite and Anti-Parnellite factions, in December 1890. The Parnellites remained members of the Irish National League after the split and the Anti-Parnellites organised the Irish National Federation in March 1891. The two organisations and the United Irish League merged in 1900, to re-create the Irish Parliamentary Party.
• ² Date of polling day. The result was declared on 28 December 1918, to allow time for votes cast by members of the armed forces to be included in the count.

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1892: North Donegal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Irish National Federation	James Rochfort Maguire	3,819	77.5	4.8
	Liberal Unionist	David Bartholomew McCorkell	1,108	22.5
Majority			2,711	55.0
Turnout			4,927	70.7	4.0
	Irish National Federation hold		Swing

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1886: North Donegal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Irish Parliamentary	James Edward O'Doherty	4,263	82.3	0.5
	Irish Unionist	Lt. Col. Harry Hutchinson Augustus Stewart	914	17.7	0.5
Majority			3,349	64.7	0.9
Turnout			5,177	74.7	5.3
	Irish Parliamentary hold		Swing

References

• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 2)