South Donegal (UK Parliament constituency) explained

South Donegal
Type:	county
Parliament:	uk
Year:	1885
Abolished:	1922
Seats:	1
Previous:	Donegal
Next:	Donegal

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

Prior to the 1885 general election the area was part of the Donegal constituency. From 1922, on the establishment of the Irish Free State, it was not represented in the UK Parliament.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the southern part of County Donegal, consisting of the baronies of Banagh and Tirhugh.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1885, 8 December	Bernard Kelly	Irish Parliamentary	replaced Thomas Lea
	1886, 1 July	Bernard Kelly	Irish Parliamentary	Died 1 January 1887
	1887, 2 February	J. G. Swift MacNeill	Irish Parliamentary	By-election
	1890, December ^1		Irish National Federation	Party split
	1891, March ^1		Irish National Federation	Party reunion
	1900, 6 October		Irish Parliamentary
	1918, 14 December ^2	Peter J. Ward	Sinn Féin	Did not take his seat in the House of Commons
	1922, 26 October	UK constituency abolished

Note:-

• 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

References

• Book: Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922. Brian M.. Walker. Royal Irish Academy. 1978. Dublin. 0901714127.