1924 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

Main article: 1924 United Kingdom general election

1924 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

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13 seats in Northern Ireland of 615 seats in the House of Commons
First party Second party   Leader James Craig Éamon de Valera Party UUP Sinn Féin Alliance Conservative Leader since 7 June 1921 October 1917 Leader's seat Did not stand Did not stand Seats won 13 [a] 0 Seat change 2 Popular vote 286,895 [b] 33,981 [b] Percentage 83.8% 9.9% Swing 34.4% New party

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. Three Ulster Unionists were elected unopposed.

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.

1924 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland [1] [2]
Party		Candidates						Votes
		Stood	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	UUP	13	13 [a]	2	0	+2	100.0	83.8	286,895	+34.4
	Sinn Féin	8	0	0	0	0	—	9.9	33,981	+9.9
	NI Labour	1	0	0	0	0	—	6.1	21,122	+6.1
	Ind. Unionist	1	0	0	0	0	—	0.2	517	-9.2
	Nationalist	0	0	0	2	-2	—	—	—	-27.3
	Independent Labour	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	-13.8

Votes in constituencies using the bloc voting system are counted as 0.5 each, as each voter had one vote per seat.

MPs elected

Constituency	Party		MP
Antrim		Ulster Unionist	Charles Craig
		Ulster Unionist	Hugh O'Neill
Armagh		Ulster Unionist	William Allen
Belfast East		Ulster Unionist	Herbert Dixon
Belfast North		Ulster Unionist	Thomas McConnell
Belfast South		Ulster Unionist	Thomas Moles
Belfast West		Ulster Unionist	Robert Lynn
Down		Ulster Unionist	David Reid
		Ulster Unionist	John Simms
Fermanagh and Tyrone		Ulster Unionist	Charles Falls
		Ulster Unionist	James Pringle
Londonderry		Ulster Unionist	Malcolm Macnaghten
Queen's University of Belfast		Ulster Unionist	Thomas Sinclair

By-election

By-election	Date	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause
Londonderry	29 January 1929	Malcolm Macnaghten		UUP	Ronald Ross		UUP	Appointment to High Court of Northern Ireland

Notes

1. Includes 3 members elected unopposed.
2. Voting took place in 10 of 13 seats.
   The other 3 MPs were unopposed.

References

1. Walker, Brian Mercer (1992). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1918–1992 (New History of Ireland). Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 16–17. ISBN   0901714968.
2. "Elections to the United Kingdom Parliament held in Northern Ireland: General Election 1924". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 4 January 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2019.