Mourne
Former County constituency for the Parliament of Northern Ireland
Former constituency
Created	1929
Abolished	1972
Election method	First past the post

Mourne was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

Boundaries

Mourne was a county constituency comprising part of southern County Down, including the Mountains of Mourne. It was created when the House of Commons (Method of Voting and Redistribution of Seats) Act (Northern Ireland) 1929 introduced first-past-the-post elections throughout Northern Ireland. Mourne was created by the division of Down into eight new constituencies. The constituency survived unchanged, returning one Member of Parliament until the Parliament of Northern Ireland was temporarily suspended in 1972, and then formally abolished in 1973.

The seat included the town of Newcastle, the town of Kilkeel (which became an urban district in 1936)^[1] and also certain district electoral divisions of the rural districts of Banbridge, Downpatrick, Kilkeel and Newry No. 1.^[2]^[3]

Politics

The seat had a small nationalist majority, with Nationalist Party candidates defeating unionists at every election, excepting 1938, when no nationalist stood.^[4]

Politics of Northern Ireland
(1921–72)


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General Election 1929: Mourne^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Nationalist	Patrick O'Neill	6,575	55.1
	Ulster Unionist	J. M. Boyle	5,352	44.9
Majority			1,223	10.2
Turnout			11,927	80.5
	Nationalist win (new seat)

General Election 1933: Mourne^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	Patrick O'Neill	6,674	54.1	-1.0
	Ulster Unionist	John Maynard Sinclair	5,667	45.9	+1.0
Majority			1,007	8.2	-2.0
Turnout			12,341	82.3	+1.8
	Nationalist hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1945: Mourne^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	James McSparran	7,784	58.4	*New*
	Ind. Unionist	James Brown	5,544	41.6	New
Majority			2,240	16.8	N/A
Turnout			13,328	85.2	N/A
	Nationalist hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1949: Mourne^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	James McSparran	7,462	55.3	-3.1
	Ulster Unionist	N. F. Gordon	6,020	44.7	+3.1
Majority			1,442	10.6	-6.2
Turnout			13,482	83.2	-2.0
	Nationalist hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1953: Mourne^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	James McSparran	7,532	55.2	-0.1
	Ulster Unionist	Joseph Fisher	6,113	44.8	+0.1
Majority			1,419	10.4	-0.2
Turnout			13,645	82.6	-0.6
	Nationalist hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1958: Mourne^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	James O'Reilly	7,139	52.3	-2.9
	Ulster Unionist	Eileen Calvert	6,506	47.7	+2.9
Majority			633	4.6	-5.8
Turnout			13,645	84.7	+2.1
	Nationalist hold		Swing	N/A

v t e Parliament of Northern Ireland constituencies
1921–1929	1929–1973
Antrim	Antrim Borough Bannside Carrick Larkfield (from 1969) Larne Mid Antrim Newtownabbey (from 1969) North Antrim South Antrim
Armagh	Central Armagh Mid Armagh North Armagh South Armagh
Belfast East	Belfast Bloomfield Belfast Dock Belfast Pottinger Belfast Victoria
Belfast North	Belfast Clifton Belfast Duncairn Belfast Oldpark Belfast Shankill
Belfast South	Belfast Ballynafeigh Belfast Cromac Belfast Willowfield Belfast Windsor
Belfast West	Belfast Central Belfast Falls Belfast St Anne's Belfast Woodvale
Down	Ards Bangor (from 1969) East Down Iveagh Lagan Valley (from 1969) Mid Down Mourne North Down South Down West Down
Fermanagh and Tyrone	East Tyrone Enniskillen Lisnaskea Mid Tyrone North Tyrone South Fermanagh South Tyrone West Tyrone
Londonderry	City of Londonderry Foyle Mid Londonderry North Londonderry South Londonderry
Queen's University	Queen's University (to 1969)

Parliamentary constituencies in County Down

Westminster
1801–present

Historic	Down (1801–85, 1922–50) East Down (1885–1922) Mid Down (1918–22) North Down (1885–1922, 1950–) South Down (1885–1922, 1950–) West Down (1885–1922) Downpatrick (1801–85) Newry (1801–1918)
Current	Lagan Valley (1983–) Newry & Armagh (1983–) Strangford (1983–)

Dáil Éireann
Revolutionary era 1919–1922

Seats taken	(none)
Seats not taken	East Down Mid Down North Down South Down West Down

One or more seats taken	Down
No seats taken	(none)

Ards (1929–72)
Bangor (1969–72)
Down (1921–29)
East Down (1929–72)
Iveagh (1929–72)
Lagan Valley (1969–72)
Larkfield (1969–72)
Mid Down (1929–72)
Mourne (1929–72)
North Down (1929–72)
South Down (1929–72)
West Down (1929–72)

Northern Ireland Assemblies

Assembly 1973–74 Constitutional Convention 1975–76 Assembly 1982–86	North Down South Down
Northern Ireland Forum 1996–98 Assembly (1998–present)	North Down South Down Lagan Valley Newry & Armagh Strangford Upper Bann

Constituencies in Ireland by county
Republic of Ireland	Carlow Cavan Clare Cork Donegal Dublin Galway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Laois Leitrim Limerick Longford Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan Offaly Roscommon Sligo Tipperary Waterford Westmeath Wexford Wicklow
Northern Ireland	Antrim Armagh Down Fermanagh Londonderry Tyrone