East Tyrone was a UK

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. It returned one

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(MP) to the

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from 1885 to 1918. Prior to the

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the area was part of the Tyrone constituency. From the dissolution of Parliament in 1918 East Tyrone became part of the new North East Tyrone constituency.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the eastern part of

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, consisting of the barony of Dungannon Upper and that part of the barony of Dungannon Middle not contained within the constituency of South Tyrone.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

References

*
''Sydney Morning Herald'', 28 July 1906''The Constitutional Year Book, 1919''
(London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1919) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tyrone East East Tyrone Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1918