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Mid Down (UK Parliament Constituency)
Mid Down was a UK United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency in Ireland and after 1921 Northern Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) to the British House of Commons from 1918 to 1922, using the first past the post electoral system . Boundaries and Boundary Changes 1918-1922: The Urban District of Holywood, the Rural Districts of Castlereagh and Hillsborough, and the District Electoral Divisions of Ballygowan, Ballymaglaff, Kilmood, Moneyreagh and Tullynakill in the Rural District of Newtownards. This county constituency comprised the central northern part of County Down, to the south-east of the city of Belfast. Prior to the 1918 Irish general election, 1918 General Election parts of the area were included in East Down (UK Parliament constituency), East Down, West Down (UK Parliament constituency), West Down and North Down (UK Parliament constituency), North Down constituencies. After the dissolution of Parlia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Down (UK Parliament Constituency)
East Down was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland which returned one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament from 1885 to 1922, using the first past the post electoral system. Boundaries and Boundary Changes This county constituency was first created in 1885 from the eastern part of Down (UK Parliament constituency), Down. There was a boundary change reducing the size of this division in 1918, when the new Mid Down (UK Parliament constituency), Mid Down constituency was created. 1885–1918: The Barony (Ireland), baronies of Dufferin (barony), Dufferin, Kinelarty, Lecale Lower and Lecale Upper, and that part of the barony of Castlereagh Upper not contained in the North Down (UK Parliament constituency), North Down constituency. 1918–1922: The rural district of Downpatrick, exclusive of the district electoral divisions of Ballynahinch, County Down, Ballynahinch, Kilmore and Leggygowan; the part of the rural district of Kilkeel which consists of the dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom Parliament
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster in London. Parliament possesses legislative supremacy and thereby holds ultimate power over all other political bodies in the United Kingdom and the Overseas Territories. While Parliament is bicameral, it has three parts: the sovereign, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons. The three parts acting together to legislate may be described as the King-in-Parliament. The Crown normally acts on the advice of the prime minister, and the powers of the House of Lords are limited to only delaying legislation. The House of Commons is the elected lower chamber of Parliament, with elections to 650 single-member constituencies held at least every five years under the first-past-the-post system. By constitutional convention, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of UK Parliament Constituencies In Ireland And Northern Ireland
Ireland became part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland under the Act of Union 1800 from 1 January 1801. On 6 December 1922, the Irish Free State left the United Kingdom, with Northern Ireland remaining as part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Summary of constituencies and Members of Parliament ''Key to categories: BC - Borough constituencies, CC - County constituencies, UC - University constituencies, Total C - Total constituencies, BMP - Borough Members of Parliament, CMP - County Members of Parliament, UMP - University Members of Parliament.'' Electoral effect of the Act of Union 1800 There were 300 seats in the Irish House of Commons in 1800, elected in 150 2-member constituencies: 32 county constituencies, 117 borough constituencies, and one university constituency. Under the Act of Union 1800, Ireland was divided into constituencies to elect 100 MPs for elections to the United Kingdom Parliament. From 1801, there were 32 two-me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 United Kingdom General Election
The 1922 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 15 November 1922. It was won by the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law, which gained an overall majority over the Labour Party, led by J. R. Clynes, and a divided Liberal Party. This election is considered one of political realignment, with the Liberal Party falling to third-party status. The Conservative Party went on to spend all but eight of the next forty-two years as the largest party in Parliament, and Labour emerged as the main competition to the Conservatives. The election was the first not to be held in Southern Ireland, due to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December 1921, under which Southern Ireland was to secede from the United Kingdom as a Dominion – the Irish Free State – on 6 December 1922. This reduced the size of the House of Commons by nearly one hundred seats when compared to the previous election. Background The Liberal Party had divided into two f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulster Unionist Party
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a Unionism in Ireland, unionist political party in Northern Ireland. The party was founded as the Ulster Unionist Council in 1905, emerging from the Irish Unionist Alliance in Ulster. Under Edward Carson, it led unionist opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement. Following the partition of Ireland, it was the Ruling party, governing party of Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972. It was supported by most unionist voters throughout the conflict known as the Troubles, during which time it was often referred to as the Official Unionist Party (OUP). Under David Trimble, the party helped negotiate the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, which ended the conflict. Trimble served as the first First Minister and deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002. However, it was overtaken as the largest unionist party 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly election, in 2003 by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). As of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Sharman-Crawford
Robert Gordon Sharman-Crawford PC (8 September 1853 – 20 March 1934) was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland. Sharman-Crawford studied at Trinity College, Dublin before becoming an officer in the British Army and managing the family estates. He served in the 16th Lancers until he resigned from regular service, and on 2 December 1898 was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 3rd (Militia) battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles. He was granted the honorary rank of colonel on 14 February 1900. He was elected for the Ulster Unionist Party at the Belfast East by-election in April 1914, although the seat was abolished in 1918. He returned to Parliament at the Mid Down by-election in July 1921 but, the following year, this seat was also abolished. In 1921, he was also elected to the Senate of Northern Ireland The Senate of Northern Ireland was the upper house of the Parliament of Northern Ireland created by the Government of Ireland Act 1920. It was abolished with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1921 Mid Down By-election
The 1921 Mid Down by-election was held on 2 July 1921. The by-election was held due to the incumbent Ulster Unionist MP, James Craig, being elected Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. It was won by the UUP candidate Robert Sharman-Crawford Robert Gordon Sharman-Crawford PC (8 September 1853 – 20 March 1934) was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland. Sharman-Crawford studied at Trinity College, Dublin before becoming an officer in the British Army and managing the family .... References Mid Down Mid Down 1921 Mid Down 1921 20th century in County Down Mid Down July 1921 in the United Kingdom {{Ireland-UK-Parl-by-election-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Unionist Party
The Irish Unionist Alliance (IUA), also known as the Irish Unionist Party, Irish Unionists or simply the Unionists, was a unionist political party founded in Ireland in 1891 from a merger of the Irish Conservative Party and the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union (ILPU) to oppose plans for home rule for Ireland within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The party was led for much of its existence by Colonel Edward James Saunderson and later by St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton. In total, eighty-six members of the House of Lords affiliated themselves with the Irish Unionist Alliance, although its broader membership among Irish voters outside Ulster was relatively small. The party aligned itself closely with the Conservative Party and Liberal Unionists to campaign to prevent the passage of a new Home Rule Bill. Its MPs took the Conservative whip at Westminster, and its members were often described as 'Conservatives' or 'Conservative Unionists', even though much of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon
James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, PC Privy Council of Northern Ireland, PC (NI) Deputy Lieutenant, DL (8 January 1871 – 24 November 1940), was a leading Unionists (Ireland), Irish unionist and a key architect of Northern Ireland as a Devolution in the United Kingdom, devolved region within the United Kingdom. During the Home Rule Crisis of 1912–14, he defied the British government in preparing an armed resistance in Ulster to an all-Ireland parliament. He accepted Partition of Ireland, partition as a final settlement, securing the opt out of six Ulster counties from the dominion statehood accorded Ireland under the terms of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty. From then until his death in 1940, he led the Ulster Unionist Party and served Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland as its first Prime Minister. He publicly characterised his administration as a "Protestant" counterpart to the "Catholic state" Irish nationalism, nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down (Dáil Éireann Constituency)
Down was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1929. It returned eight MPs, using proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote. Boundaries Down was created by the Government of Ireland Act 1920 and consisted of the administrative County Down, excluding the parts of the historic county within the County Borough of Belfast. The House of Commons (Method of Voting and Redistribution of Seats) Act (Northern Ireland) 1929 divided the constituency into eight constituencies elected under first past the post: Ards, East Down, Iveagh, Mid Down, Mourne, North Down, South Down and West Down. Second Dáil In May 1921, Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the self-declared Irish Republic run by Sinn Féin, passed a resolution declaring that elections to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland would also serve as the election for the Second Dáil. All those elected were on the roll of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Republic
The Irish Republic ( or ) was a Revolutionary republic, revolutionary state that Irish Declaration of Independence, declared its independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in January 1919. The Republic claimed jurisdiction over the whole island of Ireland, but by 1920 its functional control was limited to only 21 of Counties of Ireland, Ireland's 32 counties, and British state forces maintained a presence across much of the north-east, as well as Cork (city), Cork, Dublin and other major towns. The republic was strongest in rural areas, and through Irish Republican Army (1919–1922), its military forces was able to influence the population in urban areas that it did not directly control. Its origins date back to the Easter Rising of 1916, when Irish republicans seized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed an Irish Republic. The rebellion was crushed, but the survivors united under a reformed Sinn Féin party to campaign for a republic. In the 1918 Unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Commons Of Southern Ireland
The Parliament of Southern Ireland was a Home Rule legislature established by the British Government during the Irish War of Independence under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. It was designed to legislate for Southern Ireland,Order in Council under the Government of Ireland Act, 1920 Fixing Appointed Days for Certain Purposes. ( SR&O 1921/533) a political entity which was created by the British Government to solve the issue of rising Irish nationalism and the issue of partitionism, while retaining the whole of Ireland as part of the United Kingdom. The parliament was bicameral, consisting of a House of Commons (the lower house) with 128 seats and a Senate (the upper house) with 64 seats. The parliament as two houses sat only once, in the Royal College of Science for Ireland in Merrion Street. Due to the low turnout of members attending, the parliament was adjourned and was later officially disbanded by the Irish Free State (Agreement) Act 1922. History Under the Act of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
