East Donegal (UK Parliament constituency)

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

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

Prior to the British General Election of 1885, the area was part of the Donegal constituency. From 1922 it was not represented in the UK Parliament.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the eastern part of County Donegal.

	Member ^[1]	Party
1885	Arthur O'Connor ^a	Irish Parliamentary Party
1892		Anti-Parnellite Nationalist
1895		Anti-Parnellite Nationalist
1900	Edward McFadden	Irish Parliamentary Party
1906	Charles McVeigh	Irish Parliamentary Party
1910 (January)	Edward Kelly	Irish Parliamentary Party
1918	Edward Kelly	Irish Parliamentary Party
1922	UK constituency abolished – see Donegal (Dáil Éireann constituency)

Note:-

^a O'Connor was returned by more than one seat in 1885. He elected to sit for this constituency and not Queen's County Ossory.

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General Election 1918: East Donegal^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Irish Parliamentary	Edward Joseph Kelly	7,596	61.07	n/a
	Irish Unionist	Robert Moore	4,797	38.56	n/a
	Sinn Féin (Unofficial)	Samuel O'Flaherty	46	0.37	n/a
Majority			2,799	22.5	n/a
Turnout			12,439	77.67	n/a
	Irish Parliamentary hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1910 (January): East Donegal
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Irish Parliamentary	Edward Joseph Kelly	3,415	60.80
	Irish Unionist	Thomas Harrison	2,202	39.20
Majority			1,213	21.60
Turnout			5,617	71.15
	Irish Parliamentary hold		Swing

Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)

Parliamentary constituencies in County Donegal

Ballyshannon (1613–1800)
Donegal Borough (1613–1800)
Donegal County (1613–1800)
Killybegs (1613–1800)
Lifford (1613–1800)
St Johnstown (1618–1800)

Donegal (1801–85)
East Donegal (1885–1922)
North Donegal (1885–1922)
South Donegal (1885–1922)
West Donegal (1885–1922)

Dáil Éireann
1918–present

Historic	Donegal East (1937–61) Donegal West (1937–61) Donegal–Leitrim (1969–77) Donegal North–East (1961–77, 1981–2016) Donegal South–West (1961–69, 1981–2016)

Current	Donegal (1921–37, 1977–81, 2016–)

Constituencies in Ireland by county

Republic of Ireland	Carlow Cavan Clare Cork Donegal Dublin Galway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Laois Leitrim Limerick Longford Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan Offaly Roscommon Sligo Tipperary Waterford Westmeath Wexford Wicklow

Northern Ireland	Antrim Armagh Down Fermanagh Londonderry Tyrone

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