Londonderry City (UK Parliament constituency) Totally Explained

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Londonderry City was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system .

Boundaries and Boundary Changes

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Londonderry in County Londonderry.
It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January, 1801. In 1922 it was combined with North Londonderry and South Londonderry, to form the Londonderry county constituency.

Politics

After the extension of the franchise in 1885, the constituency was one of the most marginal seats in Ireland. There were many close elections. Sinn Féin won in 1918. The MP (best known in Irish history as Professor Eoin MacNeill) was also returned by National University of Ireland. As MacNeill didn't take his seat in the United Kingdom House of Commons he couldn't choose which constituency he'd represent and arrange a by-election in the other. He played an active role in the First Dáil and in the government it set up.

Members of Parliament

Constituency created (1801)
1801–1802 Henry Alexander
1802–1830 Sir George Fitzgerald Hill, Bt (Tory)
1830–1860 Sir Robert Alexander Ferguson (Whig, Liberal Party 1832)
1860–1865 William McCormick (Conservative Party)
1865–1868 Lord Claud John Hamilton (Conservative Party)
1868–1872 Richard Dowse (Liberal Party)
1872–1886 Charles Edward Lewis (Conservative Party)
1886–1892 Justin McCarthy (Irish Parliamentary Party)
1892–1895 John Ross (Conservative Party)
1895–1899 Edmund Francis Vesey Knox (Irish Parliamentary Party)
1899 (by-election)–1900 Arthur John Moore (Irish Parliamentary Party)
1900–1913 Marquess of Hamilton (Conservative Party, Ulster Unionist Party)
1913 (by-election)–1914 David Cleghorn Hogg (Liberal Party)
1914 (by-election)–1918 James Brown Dougherty (Liberal Party)
1918–1922 Eoin MacNeill (Sinn Féin)
Constituency abolished (1922)

Elections

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

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