Fermanagh and Tyrone was a Parliamentary Constituency in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

 which was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom, British Crown dependencies and British overseas territories, located in London...

. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) using the bloc vote

Plurality-at-large voting

Plurality-at-large voting is a non-proportional voting system for electing several representatives from a single multimember electoral district using a series of check boxes and tallying votes similar to a plurality election...

 system.

Boundaries

The constituency was formed from the constituencies of Fermanagh North

North Fermanagh (UK Parliament constituency)

North Fermanagh was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland.-Boundaries and Boundary Changes:This county constituency comprised the northern part of County Fermanagh.It returned one Member of Parliament 1885–1922....

, Fermanagh South

South Fermanagh (UK Parliament constituency)

South Fermanagh was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland.-Boundaries and Boundary Changes:This county constituency comprised the southern part of County Fermanagh.It returned one Member of Parliament 1885–1922....

, Tyrone North-East

North-East Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)

North East Tyrone was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland. From 1918 to 1922 it returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post votimg system....

, Tyrone North-West

North-West Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)

North West Tyrone was a UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament to the British House of Commons 1918–1922.-Boundaries and boundary changes:...

 and Tyrone South

South Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)

South Tyrone was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland.-Boundaries and Boundary Changes:This county constituency comprised the southern part of County Tyrone.It returned one Member of Parliament 1885–1922....

. It covered County Fermanagh

County Fermanagh

Fermanagh District Council is the only one of the 26 district councils in Northern Ireland that contains all of the county it is named after. The district council also contains a small section of County Tyrone in the Dromore and Kilskeery road areas....

 and County Tyrone

County Tyrone

Historically Tyrone stretched as far north as Lough Foyle, and comprised part of modern day County Londonderry east of the River Foyle. The majority of County Londonderry was carved out of Tyrone between 1610-1620 when that land went to the Guilds of London to set up profit making schemes based on...

 in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

, within which it was the only constituency to regularly elect Nationalist MPs. It was abolished in 1950. Much of the constituency then became Fermanagh and South Tyrone

Fermanagh and South Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)

Fermanagh and South Tyrone is a Parliamentary constituency in the British House of Commons. The current MP for the constituency is Michelle Gildernew of Sinn Féin....

, the remainder part of Mid Ulster

Mid Ulster (UK Parliament constituency)

Mid Ulster is a Parliamentary Constituency in the British House of Commons.-Boundaries:The constituency was created in 1950 when the old two-seat constituency of Fermanagh and Tyrone was abolished as part of the final move to single member seats...

.

Members of Parliament

Nationalist MPs were elected in every general election and by-election held in the constituency, except for the 1924 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1924

- Seats summary :- References :* F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* - External links :* * *...

, when no Nationalist stood and two Ulster Unionists defeated two Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...

 candidates.

Election	MP	Party		MP	Party
1922	Thomas Harbison Thomas Harbison Thomas Harbison was an Irish nationalist politician.After growing up in Cookstown, Harbison studied at St Malachy's College in Belfast. He became active in the Irish Parliamentry Party, acting from 1906 until 1910 as the election agent for William Redmond and Tom Kettle...	Cahir Healy Cahir Healy Cahir Healy was an Irish politician.Born in Mountcharles in County Donegal, he became a journalist working on various local papers. He joined Sinn Féin on its foundation in 1905. He later campaigned against the inclusion of County Fermanagh and County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, arguing that they...
1924	James Alexander Pringle	Charles Fausset Falls
1929	Thomas Harbison Thomas Harbison Thomas Harbison was an Irish nationalist politician.After growing up in Cookstown, Harbison studied at St Malachy's College in Belfast. He became active in the Irish Parliamentry Party, acting from 1906 until 1910 as the election agent for William Redmond and Tom Kettle...	Joseph Devlin Joseph Devlin Joseph Devlin, also known as Joe Devlin, was an Irish journalist and influential nationalist politician...		Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) The Nationalist Party† - was the continuation of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and was formed after partition, by the Northern Ireland-based members of the IPP....
1931 by-election	Cahir Healy Cahir Healy Cahir Healy was an Irish politician.Born in Mountcharles in County Donegal, he became a journalist working on various local papers. He joined Sinn Féin on its foundation in 1905. He later campaigned against the inclusion of County Fermanagh and County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, arguing that they...					Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) The Nationalist Party† - was the continuation of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and was formed after partition, by the Northern Ireland-based members of the IPP....
1934 by-election		Joseph Francis Stewart Joseph Francis Stewart Joseph Francis Stewart, known as Joe Stewart , was an Irish nationalist politician.After growing up in Dungannon, where he studied at the Christian Brothers' School, Stewart worked as a wine merchant and became active in the Irish Parliamentry Party...
1935	Patrick Cunningham Patrick Cunningham Patrick Cunningham was an Irish nationalist politician.Cunningham, father to thirteen children , was elected to the Westminster House of Commons for the Nationalist Party as Member of Parliament Fermanagh and Tyrone at the 1935 general election.Cunningham did not take his seat until 1945, and...	Anthony Mulvey Anthony Mulvey Anthony Mulvey was an Irish nationalist politician.Born in County Leitrim, Mulvey edited the Ulster Herald before his election to represent Fermanagh and Tyrone for the Nationalist Party in the British House of Commons at the 1935 UK general election.Mulvey did not take his seat until 1945, and...

Elections

Sources

• F. W. S. Craig
  F. W. S. Craig
  Frederick Walter Scott Craig was a Scottish psephologist and compiler of the standard reference books covering United Kingdom Parliamentary election results. He originally worked in public relations, compiling election results in his spare time which were published by the Scottish Unionist Party...
  
  , British Parliamentary Election Results 1918 - 1949
• ElectionsIreland.org