North Sligo (UK Parliament constituency)

North Sligo
North Sligo
	Former County constituency; for the House of Commons
1885–1922
Number of members	One
Created from	Sligo County

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

Prior to the 1885 general election the area was part of the two-seat Sligo constituency. From 1922 it was not represented in the UK Parliament.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the northern part of County Sligo.

	Member	Party
1885	Peter McDonald	Irish Parliamentary Party
1891	Bernard Collery	Irish National Federation (Anti-Parnellite)
1900 by-election	John O'Dowd	Irish Parliamentary Party
1900	William McKillop	Irish Parliamentary Party
1906	Patrick Aloysius McHugh	Irish Parliamentary Party
1909	Thomas Scanlan	Irish Parliamentary Party
1918	J. J. Clancy	Sinn Féin

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General Election 1885:^[1] North Sligo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Parliamentary	Peter McDonald	5,216	87.11	N/A
	Conservative	Colonel Ffolliott	772	12.89	N/A
Majority			4,444	74.22	N/A

Peter McDonald was re-elected unopposed in the 1886 general election.^[1]

By-election 2 April 1891:^[1] North Sligo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish National Federation	Bernard Collery	3,251	56.7	N/A
	Parnellite Nationalist	Valentine Blake Dillon	2,483	43.3	N/A
Majority			768	13.39	N/A

General Election 1892:^[1] North Sligo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Irish National Federation	Bernard Collery	4,216	81.48
	Conservative	C. Wynne	958	18.52
Majority			3,258	62.97
	Irish National Federation hold		Swing

General Election 1895:^[1] North Sligo
	Candidate	Votes	%
Irish National Federation	Bernard Collery	3,274	61.47
Parnellite Nationalist	H. Harrison	1,281	24.05
Irish Unionist	Sir Morgan Crofton	771	14.48
Irish National Federation hold		Swing

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 "Election intelligence" The Times (London). Tuesday, 30 January 1900. (36052), p. 10.

The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)^{[self-published source]}^{[better source needed]}

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North Sligo
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1922
Number of members	One
Created from	Sligo County