West Donegal (UK Parliament constituency)

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

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

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

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the western part of County Donegal.

	Member ^[1]	Party	Note
1885, December 1	Patrick O'Hea	Irish Parliamentary	Resigned
1890, May 30	James Joseph Dalton	Irish Parliamentary	Party split
1890, December ¹	James Joseph Dalton	Irish National League
1892, July 11	Timothy Daniel Sullivan	Irish National Federation
1900, October 3	James Boyle	Irish Parliamentary	Resigned
1902, April 25	Hugh Alexander Law	Irish Parliamentary
1918, December 14 ²	Joseph Aloysius Sweeney	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.

General Election 1 December 1885: Donegal West
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Irish Nationalist	Patrick O’Hea	unopposed
Turnout			7377
	Irish Nationalist gain from new seat		Swing

General Election 11 July 1892: Donegal West
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Irish National Federation	Timothy Daniel Sullivan	unopposed
Turnout			5279
	Irish National Federation hold		Swing

General Election 18 July 1895: Donegal West
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Irish National Federation	Timothy Daniel Sullivan	unopposed
Turnout			6254
	Irish National Federation hold		Swing

General Election 14 December 1918: Donegal West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Sinn Féin	John Aloysius Sweeney	6712	62.0
	Irish Nationalist	Daniel McMenamin	4116	38.0
Majority			2596	24.0
Turnout			19296	56.1
	Sinn Féin 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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