North Londonderry (UK Parliament constituency)

North Londonderry was a county constituency, officially titled the North Derry division of County Londonderry. It comprised the northern part of County Londonderry, defined as follows:[https://archive.org/stream/publicgeneralac01walegoog#page/n195/mode/2up Redistribution of Seats Act, Seventh Schedule - Part III - Ireland, County of Londonderry] Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885 (from Internet Archive)

• four complete baronies, namely, Keenaght, the North East Liberties of Coleraine, the North West Liberties of Londonderry, and Tirkeeran;
• and part of the barony of Coleraine, comprising
• four complete civil parishes, namely, Dunboe, Formoyle, Killowen and Macosquin;
• and part of the civil parish of Aghadowey; namely, the townlands of Ballinrees, Ballybritain, Ballycaghan, Ballyclough, Ballydevitt, Ballylintagh, Ballymenagh, Ballynacally Beg, Ballynacally More, Ballywillin, Clintagh, Collins, Craigmore, Crevolea, Craiglea Glebe, Crosscanley Glebe, Crossmakeever, Culdrum, Drumatemple, Glencurb, Keely, Killeague, Kiltest, Knockaduff, Lisnamuck, Managher, Mayboy, Meavemanougher, Meencraig, Moneybrannon, Mullan, Scalty and Shanlongford.

The constituency returned one Member of Parliament. It was not affected by the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918. Prior to the 1885 United Kingdom general election and after the dissolution of Parliament in 1922 the area was part of the Londonderry constituency.

The constituency was a predominantly unionist area. Sinn Féin was easily beaten in 1918 and 1919.

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. This area, in republican theory, was incorporated in a five-member Dáil constituency of Londonderry.

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

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|title=1885 general election: North Londonderry{{cite book|editor1-last=Walker|editor1-first=B.M.|title=Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922|date=1978|publisher=Royal Irish Academy|location=Dublin|isbn=0901714127|pages=362, 393}}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Irish Conservative Party

|candidate = Henry Mulholland

|votes = 5,180

|percentage = 62.5

|change =

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = Samuel Walker

|votes = 3,017

|percentage = 37.5

|change =

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{{Election box majority|

|votes = 2,073

|percentage = 25.0

|change =

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{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 8,287

|percentage = 74.1

|change =

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{{Election box registered electors|

|reg. electors = 11,189

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{{Election box new seat win|

|winner = Irish Conservative Party

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|title=1886 general election: North Londonderry}}

{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link|

|party = Irish Conservative Party

|candidate = Henry Mulholland

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{{Election box hold with party link no swing|

|winner = Irish Conservative Party

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|title=1892 general election: North Londonderry}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Irish Unionist Alliance

|candidate = Henry Mulholland

|votes = 5,490

|percentage = 70.5

|change = N/A

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = Thomas Greer

|votes = 2,300

|percentage = 29.5

|change = New

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{{Election box majority|

|votes = 3,190

|percentage = 41.0

|change = N/A

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{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 7,790

|percentage = 68.1

|change = N/A

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{{Election box registered electors|

|reg. electors = 11,443

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{{Election box hold with party link|

|winner = Irish Unionist Alliance

|swing = N/A

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|title=1895 general election: North Londonderry}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Irish Unionist Alliance

|candidate = John Atkinson

|votes = 4,763

|percentage = 65.2

|change = −5.3

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = Arthur Houston

|votes = 2,538

|percentage = 34.8

|change = +5.3

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{{Election box majority|

|votes = 2,225

|percentage = 30.6

|change = −10.4

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{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 7,301

|percentage = 72.0

|change = +3.9

}}

{{Election box registered electors|

|reg. electors = 10,139

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{{Election box hold with party link|

|winner = Irish Unionist Alliance

|swing = −5.3

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|title=1900 general election: North Londonderry}}

{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link|

|party = Irish Unionist Alliance

|candidate = John Atkinson

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{{Election box hold with party link no swing|

|winner = Irish Unionist Alliance

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|title=1906 general election: North Londonderry}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Irish Unionist Alliance

|candidate = Hugh T. Barrie

|votes = 4,806

|percentage = 64.0

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Russellite Unionist

|candidate = Arnold White

|votes = 2,699

|percentage = 36.0

|change =New

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{{Election box majority|

|votes = 2,107

|percentage = 28.0

|change = N/A

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{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 7,505

|percentage = 79.3

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box registered electors|

|reg. electors = 9,462

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{{Election box hold with party link|

|winner = Irish Unionist Alliance

|swing = N/A

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|title=January 1910 general election: North Londonderry}}

{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link|

|party = Irish Unionist Alliance

|candidate = Hugh T. Barrie

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{{Election box hold with party link no swing|

|winner = Irish Unionist Alliance

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|title=December 1910 general election: North Londonderry}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Irish Unionist Alliance

|candidate = Hugh T. Barrie

|votes = 4,960

|percentage = 69.1

|change = N/A

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = William Herbert Brown

|votes = 2,217

|percentage = 30.9

|change =New

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{{Election box majority|

|votes = 2,743

|percentage = 38.2

|change = N/A

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{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 7,177

|percentage = 76.8

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box registered electors|

|reg. electors = 9,349

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{{Election box hold with party link|

|winner = Irish Unionist Alliance

|swing = N/A

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|title=1918 general election: North Londonderry}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Irish Unionist Alliance

|candidate = Hugh Anderson

|votes = 10,530

|percentage = 72.7

|change = +3.6

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Sinn Féin

|candidate = Patrick McGilligan

|votes = 3,951

|percentage = 27.3

|change =New

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{{Election box majority|

|votes = 6,579

|percentage = 45.4

|change = +7.2

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{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 14,481

|percentage = 68.0

|change = −8.8

}}

{{Election box registered electors|

|reg. electors = 21,306

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{{Election box hold with party link|

|winner = Irish Unionist Alliance

|swing = +3.6

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Anderson resigns, prompting a by-election.

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|title=By-election, 1919: North Londonderry}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Irish Unionist Alliance

|candidate = Hugh T. Barrie

|votes = 9,933

|percentage = 69.6

|change = −3.1

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Sinn Féin

|candidate = Patrick McGilligan

|votes = 4,333

|percentage = 30.4

|change = +3.1

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes = 5,600

|percentage = 39.2

|change = −6.2

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 14,266

|percentage =

|change =

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{{Election box hold with party link|

|winner = Irish Unionist Alliance

|swing = −3.1

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Barrie dies, prompting a by-election.

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|title=By-election, 1922: North Londonderry}}

{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link|

|party = Ulster Unionist Party

|candidate = Malcolm Macnaghten

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{{Election box hold with party link no swing|

|winner = Ulster Unionist Party

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{{reflist}}

• {{cite book|title=Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922|editor-first=Brian M.|editor-last=Walker|publisher=Royal Irish Academy|year=1978|location=Dublin|isbn=0901714127}}
• {{cite book|title=Who's Who of British members of parliament: Volume II 1886–1918|editor-first1=M.|editor-last1=Stenton|editor-first2=S.|editor-last2=Lees|publisher=The Harvester Press|year=1978}}
• {{cite book|title='Who's Who of British members of parliament: Volume III 1919–1945|editor-first1=M.|editor-last1=Stenton|editor-first2=S.|editor-last2=Lees|publisher=The Harvester Press|year=1979}}
• Redistribution of Seats Act, Seventh Schedule, Part III - Ireland, in The Public General Acts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland passed in the forty-eighth and forty-ninth years of Her Majesty Queen Victoria
• {{Rayment-hc|l|4|date=March 2012}}

• List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies in Ireland and Northern Ireland
• List of MPs elected in the 1918 United Kingdom general election
• Historic Dáil constituencies
• Members of the 1st Dáil

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