East Tyrone (UK Parliament Constituency)
East Tyrone was a UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the British House of Commons 1885–1918.
Prior to the United Kingdom general election, 1885 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.
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