Mid Tyrone (UK Parliament Constituency)
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Mid Tyrone was a UK parliamentary constituency in
Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
. It returned one
Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members o ...
(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 County Tyrone (; ) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland. It is no longer used as an administrative division for local government but retai ...
, 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

1 Anti-Parnellite Nationalist 1891–1900


Elections


Elections in the 1880s


Elections in the 1890s


Elections in the 1900s


Elections in the 1910s


References

*''Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922'', edited by B.M. Walker ( Royal Irish Academy 1978)


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tyrone Mid Mid Tyrone Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1918