West Donegal (UK Parliament constituency)

West Donegal
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1885 (1885)–1922 (1922)
Created from	Donegal

West Donegal was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament 1885–1922.

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

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the western part of County Donegal.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member [1]	Party	Note
	1885, December 1	Patrick O'Hea	Irish Parliamentary	Resigned
	1890, May 30	James Joseph Dalton	Irish Parliamentary	Party split
	1890, December 1		Irish National League
	1892, July 11	Timothy Daniel Sullivan	Irish National Federation
	1900, October 3	James Boyle	Irish Parliamentary	Resigned
	1902, April 25	Hugh Alexander Law	Irish Parliamentary
	1918, December 14 2	Joseph Aloysius Sweeney	Sinn Féin	Did not take his seat at Westminster
	1922, October 26	UK constituency abolished

Note:-

• ¹ Not an election, but the date of a party change. The Irish Parliamentary Party had been created in 1882, on the initiative of Charles Stewart Parnell's Irish National League. Both the IPP and the INL split into Parnellite and Anti-Parnellite factions, in December 1890. The Parnellites remained members of the Irish National League after the split and the Anti-Parnellites organised the Irish National Federation in March 1891. The two organisations and the United Irish League merged in 1900, to re-create the Irish Parliamentary Party.
• ² Date of polling day. The result was declared on 28 December 1918, to allow time for votes cast by members of the armed forces to be included in the count.

Elections

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References

1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 2)

Sources

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