sentences:  This electoral performance was not uniquely bad; all four Parnellite candidates in the province of Ulster at this election performed almost equally poorly, the best score being 123 votes at Mid Tyrone.North Westmeath was a straight fight between Parnellite and Anti-Parnellite, but Blane lost heavily here also, with under 12 per cent of the vote.Blane was unusual in being a working-class member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and seems to have encountered some prejudice as a result.