South Donegal (UK Parliament constituency)

South Donegal
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1922
Created from	Donegal

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

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

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the southern part of County Donegal.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1885, December 8	Bernard Kelly	Irish Parliamentary	replaced Thomas Lea
	1886, July 1	Bernard Kelly	Irish Parliamentary	Died January 1, 1887
	1887, February 2	John Gordon Swift MacNeill	Irish Parliamentary	By-election
	1890, December ^1		Anti-Parnellite	Party split
	1891, March ^1		Irish National Federation	Party reunion
	1900, October 6		Irish Parliamentary
	1918, December 14 ^2	Peter Joseph Ward	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

References

• 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 "D" (part 2)