Mid Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency) explained

Mid Tyrone
Type:county
Parliament:uk
Year:1885
Abolished:1918
Seats:1
Previous:Tyrone
Next:North East Tyrone and North West Tyrone

Mid Tyrone was a UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the British House of Commons 1885–1918.

Before the 1885 general election the area was part of the Tyrone constituency. From the dissolution of Parliament in 1918 Mid Tyrone was divided between the new North-East Tyrone and North-West Tyrone constituencies.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the central part of County Tyrone, consisting of the barony of East Omagh and that part of the barony of Strabane Upper not contained within the constituency of North Tyrone.

Members of Parliament

FromToNamePartyBornDied
18851895Matthew Joseph Kenny Nationalist (Irish Parliamentary Party)11 February 18618 December 1942
1895January 1910George Murnaghan Nationalist14 July 184713 January 1929
January 1910December 1910Gerald Brunskill Unionist4 April 18664 October 1918
December 19101918Richard McGhee Nationalist18511930

1Anti-Parnellite Nationalist 1891–1900

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

References