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Fermanagh and Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 54°37′05″N 7°06′58″W / 54.618°N 7.116°W / 54.618; -7.116
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54°37′05″N 7°06′58″W / 54.618°N 7.116°W / 54.618; -7.116

Fermanagh and Tyrone
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
Districts of Northern IrelandCounty Fermanagh and County Tyrone
19221950
SeatsTwo
Created fromNorth Fermanagh
South Fermanagh
North-East Tyrone
North-West Tyrone
South Tyrone
Replaced byFermanagh & South Tyrone
Mid Ulster

Fermanagh and Tyrone was a Parliamentary Constituency in Northern Ireland which was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) using the bloc vote system.

Boundaries

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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.

Members of Parliament

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

Election MP Party MP Party
1922 Thomas Harbison Nationalist Cahir Healy Nationalist
1924 James Pringle UUP Charles Falls UUP
1929 Thomas Harbison Nationalist Joseph Devlin Nationalist
1931(b) Cahir Healy Nationalist
1934(b) Joe Stewart Nationalist
1935 Patrick Cunningham Nationalist Anthony Mulvey Nationalist
1950 constituency abolished; see Fermanagh and South Tyrone and Mid Ulster

Elections

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General election 1922: Fermanagh and Tyrone (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Thomas Harbison 45,236 27.0
Nationalist Cahir Healy 44,817 26.8
UUP James Pringle 38,640 23.1
UUP William Allen 38,589 23.1
Majority 6,177 3.7
Turnout 167,282
Nationalist win (new seat)
Nationalist win (new seat)
General election 1923: Fermanagh and Tyrone (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Thomas Harbison 44,003 27.0 0.0
Nationalist Cahir Healy 43,668 26.8 0.0
UUP James Pringle 37,733 23.1 0.0
UUP Charles Falls 37,682 23.1 0.0
Majority 5,935 3.7 0.0
Turnout 163,086
Nationalist hold Swing
Nationalist hold Swing
General election 1924: Fermanagh and Tyrone (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
UUP Charles Falls 44,716 43.5 +20.4
UUP James Pringle 44,711 43.4 +20.3
Sinn Féin Michael McCartan 6,812 6.6 New
Sinn Féin Thomas Corrigan 6,685 6.5 New
Majority 37,899 36.8 N/A
Majority 38,031 37.0 N/A
Turnout 102,924
UUP gain from Nationalist Swing
UUP gain from Nationalist Swing
General election 1929: Fermanagh and Tyrone (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Joseph Devlin Unopposed N/A N/A
Nationalist Thomas Harbison Unopposed N/A N/A
Nationalist gain from UUP
Nationalist gain from UUP
1931 Fermanagh and Tyrone by-election (1 seat)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Cahir Healy Unopposed N/A N/A
Nationalist hold
General election 1931: Fermanagh and Tyrone (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Joseph Devlin 50,650 26.5 N/A
Nationalist Cahir Healy 50,603 26.1 N/A
UUP Hugh Irwin 45,101 23.6 New
UUP Ynyr Burges 44,921 23.5 New
Majority 5,502 2.5 N/A
Turnout 191,275
Nationalist hold Swing
Nationalist hold Swing
1934 Fermanagh and Tyrone by-election (1 seat)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Joe Stewart 28,790 61.4 N/A
Ind. Nationalist Dominick McCrossan 18,809 38.6 New
Majority 10,701 22.8 +20.3
Turnout 47,599
Nationalist hold Swing
General election 1935: Fermanagh and Tyrone (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Patrick Cunningham 50,891 26.2 ―0.3
Nationalist Anthony Mulvey 50,603 26.1 N/A
UUP Roland Deane 46,625 24.0 +0.4
UUP John Blakiston-Houston 46,000 23.7 +0.2
Majority 3,078 2.1 −0.4
Turnout 194,119
Nationalist hold Swing
Nationalist hold Swing
General election 1945: Fermanagh and Tyrone (2 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Patrick Cunningham 55,373 27.3 +1.1
Nationalist Anthony Mulvey 55,144 27.1 +1.0
UUP Thomas Lyons 46,392 22.8 ―1.2
UUP Noreen Cooper 46,260 22.8 ―0.9
Majority 8,752 4.3 +2.2
Turnout 203,169
Nationalist hold Swing
Nationalist hold Swing

Sources

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