Election Name: | 1923 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1922 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland |
Previous Year: | 1922 |
Election Date: | 6 December 1923 |
Next Election: | 1924 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland |
Next Year: | 1924 |
Seats For Election: | All 13 seats in Northern Ireland to the House of Commons |
Leader1: | James Craig |
Party1: | Ulster Unionist Party |
Leader Since1: | 7 June 1921 |
Leaders Seat1: | Did not stand[1] |
Seats1: | 11 |
Popular Vote1: | 79,453 |
Percentage1: | 49.4% |
Leader2: | Joe Devlin |
Leader Since2: | 14 December 1918 |
Party2: | Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) |
Leaders Seat2: | Did not stand[2] |
Seats2: | 2 |
Popular Vote2: | 43,835 |
Percentage2: | 27.2% |
The 1923 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 6 December as part of the wider general election. There were ten constituencies, seven single-seat constituencies with elected by FPTP and three two-seat constituencies with MPs elected by bloc voting. Only three of the constituencies had contested elections.
The election saw no change in the representation of the 13 seats in Northern Ireland.
In the election as a whole, the Conservative Party, now led by Stanley Baldwin, lost its majority and the Labour Party formed a minority with Ramsay MacDonald as Prime Minister. The Ulster Unionists sat as members of the Conservative Party.
Party | MPs | Change | Uncontested | Votes[5] | Adjusted votes[6] | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ulster Unionist | 11 | 9 | 117,161 | 79,453 | 49.4 | |||
Nationalist | 2 | 0 | 87,671 | 43,835 | 27.3 | |||
Independent Labour | 0 | 0 | 22,225 | 13.8 | ||||
Independent Unionist | 0 | 0 | 15,171 | 9.4 | ||||
Total | 13 | 9 | 242,258 | 160,685 | 100 |