North Monaghan (UK Parliament constituency)

North Monaghan
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
18851922
Number of members One
Created from Monaghan

North Monaghan was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, from 1885 to 1922.

Prior to the United Kingdom general election, 1885 the area was part of the Monaghan constituency. From 1922 it was not represented in the UK Parliament.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the northern part of County Monaghan.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1885 Timothy Michael Healy Nationalist
1886 Pat O'Brien Nationalist
1891 Parnellite Nationalist
1892 Charles Diamond Anti-Parnellite Nationalist
1895 Daniel MacAleese Anti-Parnellite Nationalist
1900 Edward Charles Thompson Nationalist
1906 Patrick O'Hare Nationalist
1907(b) James Carrige Rushe Lardner Nationalist
1918 Ernest Blythe Sinn Féin
1922 constituency abolished

Elections

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Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Monaghan North[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Sinn Féin Ernest Blythe 6842 48.7 n/a
Irish Unionist Michael Knight 4497 32.0 n/a
Irish Parliamentary John Turley 2709 19.3 n/a
Majority 2,345 16.7 n/a
Turnout 14,048 86.8 n/a
Sinn Féin win

References


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