West Mayo (UK Parliament Constituency)
West Mayo was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1922.
Prior to the 1885 general election the area was part of the two-seat Mayo constituency. From 1922 it was not represented in the UK Parliament.
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