North Sligo (UK Parliament constituency)

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

General Election 1 December 1885: North Sligo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Irish Nationalist	Peter McDonald	5,216	87.1	N/A
	Conservative	Lt. Col. John ffolliott	772	12.9	N/A
Majority			4,444	74.2	N/A
Turnout			7,869	76.1
	Irish Nationalist gain from new seat		Swing

By-election 2 April 1891: North Sligo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Irish National Federation	Bernard Collery	3,261	56.7	N/A
	Parnellite Nationalist	Valentine Blake Dillon	2,493	43.3	N/A
Majority			768	13.3	N/A
Turnout			8,476	67.9

General Election 14 July 1892: North Sligo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Irish National Federation	Bernard Collery	4,262	81.6
	Irish Conservative	Owen Wynne	958	18.4
Majority			3,304	63.2
Turnout			8,992	58.1
	Irish National Federation hold		Swing

General Election 23 July 1895: North Sligo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Irish National Federation	Bernard Collery	3,274	61.5
	Parnellite Nationalist	Henry Harrison	1,281	24.0
	Irish Conservative	Sir Morgan Crofton	771	14.5
Majority			1,993	37.4
Turnout			7,764	68.6
	Irish National Federation hold		Swing

General Election 14 December 1918: North Sligo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Sinn Féin	J.J. Clancy	9,030	68.0
	Irish Nationalist	Thomas Scanlan	4,242	32.0
Majority			4,788	36.0
Turnout			18,448	71.9
	Sinn Féin gain from Irish Nationalist		Swing

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)

Parliamentary constituencies in County Sligo and Borough

Dáil Éireann
1918–present

Historic	Sligo–Mayo East (1921–23) Leitrim–Sligo (1923–37) Sligo (1937–48) Sligo–North Leitrim (2007–16)

Current	Sligo–Leitrim (1948–2007, 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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