Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885, December 1 | Patrick O'Hea | Irish Parliamentary | Resigned | |
| 1890, May 30 | James Joseph Dalton | Irish Parliamentary | Party split | |
| 1890, December 1 | Irish National League | |||
| 1892, July 11 | Timothy Daniel Sullivan | Irish National Federation | ||
| 1900, October 3 | James Boyle | Irish Parliamentary | Resigned | |
| 1902, April 25 | Hugh Alexander Law | Irish Parliamentary | ||
| 1918, December 14 2 | Joseph Aloysius Sweeney | Sinn Féin | Did not take his seat at Westminster | |
| 1922, October 26 | UK constituency abolished | |||
Note:-
- 1 Not an election, but the date of a party change. The Irish Parliamentary Party had been created in 1882, on the initiative of Charles Stewart Parnell's Irish National League. Both the IPP and the INL split into Parnellite and Anti-Parnellite factions, in December 1890. The Parnellites remained members of the Irish National League after the split and the Anti-Parnellites organised the Irish National Federation in March 1891. The two organisations and the United Irish League merged in 1900, to re-create the Irish Parliamentary Party.
- 2 Date of polling day. The result was declared on 28 December 1918, to allow time for votes cast by members of the armed forces to be included in the count.
Read more about this topic: West Donegal (UK Parliament Constituency)
Famous quotes related to members of parliament:
“The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)