North Monaghan (UK Parliament constituency)

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

North Monaghan was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, from 1885 to 1922.

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

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the northern part of County Monaghan.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Timothy Michael Healy	Nationalist
	1886	Pat O'Brien	Nationalist
	1891		Parnellite Nationalist
	1892	Charles Diamond	Anti-Parnellite Nationalist
	1895	Daniel MacAleese	Anti-Parnellite Nationalist
	1900	Edward Charles Thompson	Nationalist
	1906	Patrick O'Hare	Nationalist
	1907(b)	James Carrige Rushe Lardner	Nationalist
	1918	Ernest Blythe	Sinn Féin
1922		constituency abolished

Elections

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Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Monaghan North[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Sinn Féin	Ernest Blythe	6842	48.7	n/a
	Irish Unionist	Michael Knight	4497	32.0	n/a
	Irish Parliamentary	John Turley	2709	19.3	n/a
Majority			2,345	16.7	n/a
Turnout			14,048	86.8	n/a
	Sinn Féin win

References

1. http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/h1918.htm

• 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 "M" (part 3)