1922 South Londonderry by-election

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The 1922 South Londonderry by-election was held on 18 January 1922. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent UUP MP, Robert Chichester who had won a by-election the previous August. It was won unopposed by the UUP candidate Sir William Hacket Pain. [1]

Hacket Pain retired at the general election in October 1922 when the constituency was merged with others into a larger Londonderry constituency.

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