The result of the by-election in North Tyrone, caused by
the elevation of Serjeant Dodd (Liberal) to the Bench, was declared on Saturday last, the figures being Mr. Redmond Barry, K.C., Solicitor-General for Ireland (L.), 3,013; Mr. Denis Henry, K.C. (U), 3,006; Liberal majority, 7. In 1892 Lord Frederic Hamilton (Conservative) was returned by a majority of 49. In 1895, 1900, and 1906 the Liberal candidate was returned by majorities of 91, 55, and 9 respectively. According to the analysis of the voting given in the local Nationalist paper, the Derry Journal, the six thousand voters were divided half-and-half between Unionist and Nationalist, the division being on strictly religious lines, with the exception of some fifty Roman Catholics voting Unionist and some seventy Protestants voting Nationalist. A correspondent who calls our attention to this analysis asserts that, according to the general local opinion, there was nothing like even this amount of cross-voting. But assmning it to have taken place, "the result is that the Government and
Nationalist candidate, with the full support of the Nationalist Party, but without as a matter of policy venturing to produce one single Nationalist M.P. on his platform in an Ulster constituency, was only able to poll a little over two per cent. of the Protestant voters of all classes and denominations. It is also demonstrated that in an Ulster constituency in which a large proportion of the voters are Orangenaen, who are always being accused of religious bigotry, a Roman Catholic candidate secured the enthusiastic support of the entire body of Unionist voters, simply because he proclaimed himself an uncompromising Unionist."
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