South Londonderry (UK Parliament constituency)

South Londonderry
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1922
Seats	One
Created from	Londonderry
Replaced by	Londonderry

South Londonderry was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the British House of Commons from 1885 until it was abolished in 1922.

Boundaries and boundary changes

This county constituency comprised the southern part of County Londonderry.

Prior to the United Kingdom general election, 1885 and after the dissolution of Parliament in 1922 the area was part of the Londonderry constituency.

Politics

The constituency was a majority unionist area.

All three candidates in 1918 were Roman Catholics. Had the Sinn Féin candidate won, then instead of taking up the Westminster seat he would have participated in the revolutionary First Dáil.

Members of Parliament

Key to parties: U Irish Unionist Party 1886–1921 and Ulster Unionist 1921–1922.

From	To	Name	Party	Born	Died
1885	1886	Timothy Michael Healy	Irish Parliamentary Party	17 May 1855	26 March 1931
1886	1900	Sir Thomas Lea	Liberal Unionist	17 January 1841	9 January 1902
1900	1916	John Gordon	Liberal Unionist	23 November 1849	26 September 1922
1916	1921	Denis Henry	Irish Unionist	7 March 1864	1 October 1925
1921	1921	Robert Chichester	Irish Unionist	13 August 1874	10 December 1921
1922	1922	Sir William Hacket Pain	Ulster Unionist	5 February 1855	14 February 1924

Elections

The elections in this constituency took place using the first past the post electoral system.

General Election 14 December 1918: South Londonderry

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Unionist	Denis Stanislaus Henry	8,942	54.7	N/A
	Irish Parliamentary	Professor Arthur William Conway	3,981	24.3	N/A
	Sinn Féin	Louis Joseph Walsh	3,425	20.9	N/A
Majority			4,961	30.3	N/A
Turnout			16,348	77.1	N/A
	Irish Unionist hold		Swing	N/A

• Appointment of Henry as Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland

By-Election 29 August 1921: South Londonderry

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Robert Chichester	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

• Death of Chichester

By-Election 28 January 1922: South Londonderry

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Sir William Hacket Pain	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

References

• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume II 1886–1918, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (The Harvester Press 1978)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume III 1919–1945, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (The Harvester Press 1979)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 4)

External links

• Dáil Éireann Members Database Houses of the Oireachtas
• Dáil Debates - Díospóireachtaí Dála Houses of the Oireachtas

See also

• List of UK Parliament Constituencies in Ireland and Northern Ireland
• Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918
• MPs elected in the UK general election, 1918
• List of Dáil Éireann constituencies in Ireland (historic)
• Members of the 1st Dáil
• South Londonderry (NI Parliament constituency)