South Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)

South Tyrone
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1922
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Fermanagh and Tyrone
Created from	Dungannon and Tyrone

South Tyrone was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland which returned one Member of Parliament from 1885 to 1922, using the first past the post electoral system.

Boundaries and Boundary Changes

This county constituency comprised the southern part of County Tyrone.

Prior to the 1885 redistribution the area was part of the Tyrone constituency. From 1922 it formed part of the Fermanagh and Tyrone constituency.

Politics

The constituency was a majority unionist area. Sinn Féin and the Independent Nationalist candidate together polled about 2,500 votes less than the Unionist received in 1918.

The First Dáil

The constituencies in the 1918 Westminster election, including South Tyrone, also served as the constituencies of the First Dáil, established by Sinn Féin as the parliament of its self-proclaimed Irish Republic. While in theory all Irish Westminster MPs were entitled to sit in the Dáil, in practice only Sinn Féin members attended, and South Tyrone's William Coote was listed on the roll as "as láthair" [absent].^[1] The Second Dáil used the single transferable vote constituencies of the 1921 home rule elections, in which the territory previously in South Tyrone was part of the eight-member House of Commons of Northern Ireland constituency of Fermanagh and Tyrone.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	William O'Brien	Nationalist
	1886	Thomas Wallace Russell	Liberal Unionist
	1902		Russellite Unionist
	1907		Liberal
	Jan 1910	Andrew Long Horner	Irish Unionist
	1916 (b)	William Coote	Irish Unionist
	May 1921	William Coote	Ulster Unionist
1922		constituency abolished

Elections

General Election 5 December 1885: Tyrone South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Irish Nationalist	William O'Brien	3435	50.4
	Conservative	Capt. Somerset Henry Maxwell	3382	49.6
Majority			53	0.8
Turnout			7725	88.2
	Irish Nationalist gain from new seat		Swing

General Election 17 July 1886: Tyrone South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Unionist	Thomas Wallace Russell	3481	50.7
	Irish Nationalist	William O'Brien	3382	49.3
Majority			99	1.4
Turnout			7725	88.8
	Liberal Unionist gain from Irish Nationalist		Swing

General Election 13 July 1892: Tyrone South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Unionist	Thomas Wallace Russell	3468	52.8
	Liberal	Thomas Alexander Dickson	3096	47.2
Majority			372	5.6
Turnout			7070	92.8
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 24 July 1895: Tyrone South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Unionist	Thomas Wallace Russell	3239	51.5
	Independent Nationalist	Thomas Shillington	3046	48.5
Majority			193	3.0
Turnout			6730	93.4
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 4 October 1900: Tyrone South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Unionist	Thomas Wallace Russell	2499	48.0
	Independent Nationalist	Dr Edward Charles Thompson	2409	46.0
	Independent Unionist	Major Robert James Howard	303	5.8
Majority			90	2.0
Turnout			6220	83.8
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 25 January 1906: Tyrone South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Russellite Unionist	Thomas Wallace Russell	2954	52.5
	Irish Unionist	Andrew Long Horner KC	2671	47.5
Majority			283	5.0
Turnout			5982	94.0
	Russellite Unionist gain from Liberal Unionist		Swing

General Election 20 January 1910: Tyrone South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Irish Unionist	Andrew Long Horner KC	3054	52.4
	Liberal	Rt. Hon. Thomas Wallace Russell	2770	47.6
Majority			284	4.8
Turnout			6059	96.1
	Irish Unionist gain from Russellite Unionist		Swing

General Election 8 December 1910: Tyrone South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Irish Unionist	Andrew Long Horner KC	2962	52.7
	Liberal	Robert Nathaniel Boyd	2662	47.3
Majority			300	5.4
Turnout			6059	92.8
	Irish Unionist hold		Swing

By-election 28 February 1916: Tyrone South
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Irish Unionist	William Coote	unopposed
Turnout			6434
	Irish Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 14 December 1918: South Tyrone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Irish Unionist	William Coote	10,616	56.9	N/A
	Sinn Féin	Denis McCullough	5,437	29.1	N/A
	Independent Nationalist	John Skeffington	2,602	13.9	N/A
Majority			5,179	27.8	N/A
Turnout			18,655	83.0	N/A
	Irish Unionist hold		Swing	N/A

References

Sources

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 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)
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)

Citations

↑ "An Rolla [the roll]". First Dáil proceedings (in Irish). 21 January 1919. col.10. Retrieved 12 September 2016. Co. Thír Eoghain (theas)—Mr. Coote—as láthair

External links

Historic	Dungannon (1801–85) Fermanagh & Tyrone (1922–50) Tyrone (1801–1885) East Tyrone (1885–1918) Mid Tyrone (1885–1918) North Tyrone (1885–1918) North-East Tyrone (1918–22) North-West Tyrone (1918–22) South Tyrone (1885–1922)

Current	Fermanagh & South Tyrone (1950—) West Tyrone (1997—) Mid Ulster (1950—)

Dáil Éireann
Revolutionary era 1919–22

First Dáil
1919–21

Seats taken	(none)

Seats not taken	North East Tyrone South Tyrone

Second Dáil
1921–22

One or more seats taken	Fermanagh & Tyrone

No seats taken	(none)

Parliament of Northern Ireland
1921–72

East Tyrone (1929–72)
Mid Tyrone (1929–72)
North Tyrone (1929–72)
South Tyrone (1929–72)
West Tyrone (1929–72)

Northern Ireland Assemblies

Assembly 1973–74 Constitutional Convention 1975–76 Assembly 1982–86	Fermanagh & South Tyrone Mid Ulster

Northern Ireland Forum 1996–98 Assembly (1998–present)	Fermanagh & South Tyrone Mid Ulster West Tyrone

European Parliament
1979–present

Northern Ireland (1979—)

Constituencies in Ireland by county

Republic of Ireland	Carlow Cavan Clare Cork Donegal Dublin Galway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Laois Leitrim Limerick Longford Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan Offaly Roscommon Sligo Tipperary Waterford Westmeath Wexford Wicklow

Northern Ireland	Antrim Armagh Down Fermanagh Londonderry Tyrone

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