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North Londonderry was a United Kingdom Parliament constituency in Ireland.
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Boundaries and boundary changes
This county constituency comprised the northern part of County Londonderry.
It returned one Member of Parliament 1885–1922.
Prior to the United Kingdom general election, 1885 and after the dissolution of Parliament in 1922 the area was part of the Londonderry constituency.
Politics
The constituency was a predominantly unionist area. Sinn Féin was easily beaten in 1918 and 1919.
The First Dáil
Sinn Féin contested the general election of 1918 on the platform that instead of taking up any seats they won in the United Kingdom Parliament, they would establish a revolutionary assembly in Dublin. In republican theory every MP elected in Ireland was a potential Deputy to this assembly. In practice only the Sinn Féin members accepted the offer.
The revolutionary First Dáil assembled on 21 January 1919 and last met on 10 May 1921. The First Dáil, according to a resolution passed on 10 May 1921, was formally dissolved on the assembling of the Second Dáil. This took place on 16 August 1921.
In 1921 Sinn Féin decided to use the UK authorised elections for the Northern Ireland House of Commons and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland as a poll for the Irish Republic's Second Dáil. This area, in republican theory, was incorporated in a five-member Dáil constituency of Londonderry.
Members of Parliament
Key to parties: U Irish Unionist 1886–1921 and Ulster Unionist 1921–1922.
Elections
The elections in this constituency took place using the first past the post electoral system.