North East Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)

North East Tyrone
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1922
Number of members	1
Replaced by	Fermanagh and Tyrone
Created from	East Tyrone and Mid Tyrone

North East Tyrone was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland. From 1918 to 1922 it returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.

This county constituency comprised the north-eastern part of County Tyrone.

Prior to the United Kingdom general election, 1918 the area was the East Tyrone and part of the Mid Tyrone constituencies. From the dissolution of Parliament in 1922 North East Tyrone became part of the Fermanagh and Tyrone seat.

The constituency was a predominantly Nationalist area in 1918. The Unionists had significant but minority support. There was little chance of a Sinn Féin candidate being elected.

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.

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