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Mid Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament Constituency)
Mid Tyrone was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland. Boundaries Mid Tyrone was a county constituency comprising the central part of County Tyrone. It was created when the House of Commons (Method of Voting and Redistribution of Seats) Act (Northern Ireland) 1929 introduced first-past-the-post elections throughout Northern Ireland. Mid Tyrone was created by the division of Fermanagh and Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency), Fermanagh and Tyrone into eight new constituencies, of which five were in County Tyrone. The constituency survived unchanged, returning one member of Parliament until the Parliament of Northern Ireland was Northern Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act 1972, temporarily suspended in 1972, and then Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973, formally abolished in 1973. The seat was made up from parts of the rural districts of Cookstown, Omagh, Clogher and Strabane. Politics County Tyrone had five Stormont MPs from 1929 until 1972. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Ireland Parliament Constituencies
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North Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament Constituency)
North Tyrone was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland. Boundaries North Tyrone was a county constituency comprising the northern part of County Tyrone. It was created when the House of Commons (Method of Voting and Redistribution of Seats) Act (Northern Ireland) 1929 introduced first-past-the-post elections throughout Northern Ireland. North Tyrone was created by the division of Fermanagh and Tyrone into eight new constituencies, of which five were in County Tyrone. The constituency survived unchanged, returning one member of Parliament until the Parliament of Northern Ireland was temporarily suspended in 1972, and then formally abolished in 1973. The seat was dominated by the town of Strabane, and also included parts of the rural districts of Castlederg, Omagh, and Strabane. Politics The constituency was consistently won by members of the Ulster Unionist Party. Nationalists from various groups contested the seat on two occasions, twice winning more than 40 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward McCullagh
Edward Vincent McCullagh (2 December 1912 – 28 November 1986) was a nationalist (Ireland), nationalist politician and farmer in Northern Ireland. He was born in the townland of Sheskinshule (Greencastle, County Tyrone, Greencastle) in 1912, the son of Patrick McCullagh, merchant, and Maggie McGurk. McCullagh was a member of Omagh Rural District Council and was active in his local Gaelic Athletic Association. In 1948, he won a by-election in Mid Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency), Mid Tyrone and was elected to the Parliament of Northern Ireland for the Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland), Nationalist Party. His chief interests in Parliament were farming and rural issues.Brendan Lynn, ''Holding the Ground: The Nationalist Party in Northern Ireland, 1945–72'' (1997), McCullagh held his seat at the 1949 Northern Ireland general election, 1949 general election, then worked with the Nationalist MPs Cahir Healy and Joe Connellan and the independent Republican (Irelan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Nationalist
Independent Nationalist () is a political title frequently used by Irish nationalists when contesting elections to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom Great Britain and Ireland not as members of the Irish Parliamentary Party, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the decades leading up to Irish Independence, most Independent Nationalist candidates were either the Healyite Nationalists, supporters of Timothy Michael Healy, or the O'Brienite Nationalists, supporters of William O'Brien. Some others were elected as Independent Nationalists outside of the above groupings, such as Timothy Harrington (1900 and 1906), Joseph Nolan (1900), D. D. Sheehan (1906), and Laurence Ginnell (in both the January and December 1910 elections). William Redmond and James Cosgrave were elected to Dáil Éireann as Independent Nationalists in 1923, before going on to form the National League Party. Later in the twentieth century, Michael O'Neill was elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael McGurk
Michael McGurk (ca. 1883 – 23 June 1948) was a nationalist (Ireland), nationalist politician and farmer in Northern Ireland. McGurk became active in the Irish Home Rule campaign in the early 1900s. He was subsequently elected to Tyrone County Council and Cookstown Rural District Council.Brendan Lynn, ''Holding the Ground: The Nationalist Party in Northern Ireland, 194–72'' (1997), McGurk was elected to the Parliament of Northern Ireland as an Independent (politician), Independent Nationalist and Farmers' candidate at a by-election in Mid Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency), Mid Tyrone in 1941. He held the seat at the 1945 Northern Ireland general election, and was active mainly on agricultural issues. In Parliament, he sat with the Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland), Nationalist Party group. References {{DEFAULTSORT:McGurk, Michael 1948 deaths Members of Tyrone County Council Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1938–1945 Member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh McAleer
Hugh McAleer (died 12 May 1941) was an Irish nationalist politician. Born in Beragh, County Tyrone, McAleer worked as a teacher before being elected to Tyrone County Council. He became the President of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in County Tyrone, and at the 1929 Northern Ireland general election, he was elected as the Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland), Nationalist Party MP for Mid Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency), Mid Tyrone. In 1935, he followed Alex Donnelly in withdrawing from Parliament,Brendan Lynn, ''Holding the Ground: The Nationalist Party in Northern Ireland, 1945-72'' but he held his seat until his death in 1941. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 Northern Ireland General Election
The 1929 Northern Ireland general election was held on 22 May 1929. Like all previous elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland, it produced a large majority for the Ulster Unionist Party. It was the first held after the abolition of proportional representation and the redrawing of electoral boundaries to create single-seat constituencies. Though it had been argued this was done with the intent of gerrymandering, this has been considered unlikely as the Unionists already had a solid majority at the parliamentary level. However, the opposite was more accurate at local level. As with the rest of the United Kingdom, this has made it more difficult for independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in Pennsylvania, United States * Independentes (English: Independents), a Portuguese artist ... and minor party candidates like the Northern Ireland Labour Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Gormley (politician)
Thomas Gormley (29 July 1916 – 1984) was a politician in Northern Ireland, and a member of the Northern Ireland parliament for Mid Tyrone from 1962 until its suspension in 1972. Born in Claudy, Gormley became a farmer before following his brother Paddy into politics. He was elected to Strabane Rural District Council in 1947, and to Tyrone County Council in 1950. At the 1958 Northern Ireland general election, Gormley stood as an Independent Farmers' Candidate on a nationalist platform in Mid Tyrone, coming second. At the 1962 election, he was elected there for the official Nationalist Party. With his brother, he represented the liberal tendency in the party. In November 1969, Gormley resigned to sit as an Independent Nationalist, and in 1972, he joined the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI). He stood unsuccessfully in Mid Ulster for APNI at the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election, but was elected to Strabane District Council Strabane District Council (; Ulst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)
The Nationalist Party () was the continuation of the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP), and was formed after the partition of Ireland, by the Northern Ireland-based members of the IPP. History Despite conventionally being referred to as a single organisation, the party long existed only as a loose network of small groups, generally operating in a single constituency. Its candidates for both Westminster and Stormont elections were selected by conventions organised on a constituency basis. These arrangements changed in 1966, when a single organisation covering the whole of Northern Ireland was established. The Nationalist Party did not enter the first House of Commons of Northern Ireland despite winning six seats in the 1921 general election. Leader Joe Devlin took his seat shortly after the 1925 general election and his colleagues followed gradually by October 1927. Intermittently thereafter the party engaged in further periods of abstention, to protest against the "illegal" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Northern Ireland General Election ...
The 1962 Northern Ireland general election was held on 31 May 1962. While the Ulster Unionist Party lost three seats, they retained a large majority as in all previous elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland. Results ''All parties shown.Electorate: 903,596 (458,838 in contested seats); Turnout: 66.0% (302,681).'' Votes summary Seats summary See also * List of members of the 10th House of Commons of Northern Ireland Notes ReferencesNorthern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results {{Northern Ireland elections 1962 Northern Ireland general election Northern Ireland general election General election A general election is an electoral process to choose most or all members of a governing body at the same time. They are distinct from By-election, by-elections, which fill individual seats that have become vacant between general elections. Gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 Northern Ireland General Election
The 1958 Northern Ireland general election was called on 27 February by 1st Viscount Brookeborough to be held on 20 March 1958. Like all previous elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland, it produced a large majority for the Ulster Unionist Party. The Northern Ireland Labour Party returned to the Commons after being wiped out in the 1949 election. Campaign Announcing the election, Viscount Brookeborough remarked that the election would be on the Border issue once more, noting that this was the ninth election on the same issue. Unemployment was also an issue in the election with 50,000 people out of work in the province in that year. Results ''Electorate: 891,064 (359,816 in contested seats); Turnout: 67.1% (241,501).'' Votes summary Seats summary See also * List of members of the 9th House of Commons of Northern Ireland References Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results Notes 1958 Northern Ireland general election Northern Irel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 Northern Ireland General Election
The 1949 Northern Ireland general election was held on 19 February 1949. The election became known as the Chapel-gate election because collections were held at churches in the Republic of Ireland to support the Nationalist Party campaign. The election was held just after the Republic of Ireland's declaration of a republic. The Unionists were able to use their majority in the Parliament of Northern Ireland to schedule the election at a time when many Protestants felt uneasy about events taking place south of the border, and as a result might be more likely to vote Unionist than for Labour candidates. This appears to have been borne out in the collapse of the Labour vote; the party lost both of its 2 seats in the Commons, and would not return to the Parliament until 1958. 20 MPs were elected unopposed, most of them Ulster Unionists. Results ''All parties shown. Electorate 846,719 (477,354 in contested seats); Turnout 79.3% (378,458).'' Votes summary Seats su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
