1924 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland explained

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Election Name:1924 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland
Country:United Kingdom
Type:parliamentary
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:1923 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland
Previous Year:1923
Election Date:29 October 1924
Next Election:1929 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland
Next Year:1929
Seats For Election:13 seats in Northern Ireland of the 615 seats in the House of Commons
Leader1:James Craig
Party1:Ulster Unionist Party
Leader Since1:7 June 1921
Leaders Seat1:Did not stand[1]
Seats1:13
Popular Vote1:286,895
Percentage1:83.8%
Leader2:Éamon de Valera
Leader Since2:October 1917
Party2:Sinn Féin
Leaders Seat2:Did not stand
Seats2:0
Popular Vote2:33,981
Percentage2:9.9%

The 1924 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 29 October as part of the wider general election in the United Kingdom. There were ten constituencies, seven single-seat constituencies with elected by FPTP and three two-seat constituencies with MPs elected by bloc voting.

Results

The Nationalist Party did not contest this election. The nationalist interest was represented in the election by Sinn Féin, but they failed to win any seats, and the two seats which had been held by the Nationalist Party were won by the Ulster Unionists, so that all MPs in the region were from the same party.

In the election as a whole, the Conservative Party, which included the Ulster Unionists, returned to government with 412 of the 615 seats, and Stanley Baldwin was re-appointed as Prime Minister.

Results[2] [3]
PartyMPsChangeUncontestedVotes[4] Adjusted votes[5] %
Ulster Unionist13 23451,278286,89583.8
Sinn Féin0046,45733,9819.9
Northern Ireland Labour Party0021,1226.1
Independent Unionist005170.2
Total133519,374342,516100

MPs elected

ConstituencyPartyMP
AntrimUlster UnionistCharles Craig
Ulster UnionistHugh O'Neill
ArmaghUlster UnionistWilliam Allen
Belfast EastUlster UnionistHerbert Dixon
Belfast NorthUlster UnionistThomas McConnell
Belfast SouthUlster UnionistThomas Moles
Belfast WestUlster UnionistRobert Lynn
DownUlster UnionistDavid Reid
Ulster UnionistJohn Simms
Fermanagh and TyroneUlster UnionistCharles Falls
Ulster UnionistJames Pringle
LondonderryUlster UnionistMalcolm Macnaghten
Queen's University of BelfastUlster UnionistThomas Sinclair

By-election

Notes and References

  1. Sat as an MP for Down in the Northern Ireland Parliament.
  2. Book: Walker, Brian Mercer . Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1918–1992 (New History of Ireland) . Dublin . Royal Irish Academy . 16–17 . 0901714968 . 1992.
  3. Web site: Elections to the United Kingdom Parliament held in Northern Ireland: General Election 1924. ElectionsIreland.org. 4 January 2019. 4 January 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190104231036/https://electionsireland.org/results/general/ni/1924.cfm. live.
  4. Book: Rallings . Colin . Thrasher . Michael . British Electoral Facts . 2006 . Ashgate . 26.
  5. Votes in constituencies using the bloc voting system are counted as 0.5 each, as each voter had one vote per seat.