Prior to the 1885 United Kingdom general election the area was part of the Fermanagh constituency.
The Unionist candidate won in 1918, but Sinn Féin only polled 532 fewer votes.
Sinn Féin contested the general election of 1918 on the platform that instead of taking up any seats they won in the United Kingdom Parliament, they would establish a revolutionary assembly in Dublin.
In republican theory every MP elected in Ireland was a potential Deputy to this assembly.
This area, in republican theory, was incorporated in an eight-member Dáil constituency of Fermanagh and Tyrone.