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- ↑ Walker, Brian Mercer (1992). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1918-92: Irish Elections to Parliaments and Parliamentary Assemblies at Westminster, Belfast, Dublin, Strasbourg. Royal Irish Academy. pp. 58–62. ISBN 978-0-901714-96-1.