1929 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

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1929 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland
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  1924 30 May 1929 1931  

13 seats in Northern Ireland of the 615 seats in the House of Commons
 First partySecond party
  James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon.jpg Joe Devlin.JPG
Leader James Craig Joe Devlin
Party UUP Nationalist
Leader since7 June 192114 December 1918
Leader's seatDid not stand [fn 1] Fermanagh and Tyrone
Seats won112

The 1929 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 30 May 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.

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Results

The Nationalist Party ran in this election, having not contested the previous election in 1924. It regained the two seats in Fermanagh and Tyrone it had held from 1922 to 1924.

In the election as a whole, the Conservative Party, which included the Ulster Unionists, led by Stanley Baldwin, lost its majority and the Labour Party formed a minority government with Ramsay MacDonald as Prime Minister.

Results [1] [2]
PartyMPsChangeUncontestedVotes [3] Adjusted votes [a 1]  %
Ulster Unionist 11Decrease2.svg 22354,657247,29168.0
Nationalist 2Increase2.svg 2224,17724,1776.6
Liberal 0Steady2.svg0100,10361,19216.8
Independent Unionist 0Steady2.svg025,0576.9
Independent 0Steady2.svg06,0591.6
Total13Steady2.svg4510,053363,777100
  1. Votes in constituencies using the bloc voting system are counted as 0.5 each, as each voter had one vote per seat.

MPs elected

ConstituencyPartyMP
Antrim Ulster Unionist Sir Joseph McConnell, Bt
Ulster Unionist Hugh O'Neill
Armagh Ulster Unionist William Allen
Belfast East Ulster Unionist Herbert Dixon
Belfast North Ulster Unionist Thomas Somerset
Belfast South Ulster Unionist William Stewart
Belfast West Ulster Unionist William Allen
Down Ulster Unionist David Reid
Ulster Unionist John Simms
Fermanagh and Tyrone Nationalist Party Joseph Devlin
Nationalist Party Thomas Harbison
Londonderry Ulster Unionist Ronald Ross
Queen's University of Belfast Ulster Unionist Thomas Sinclair

By-election

By-electionDateIncumbentPartyWinnerPartyCause
Fermanagh and Tyrone 7 March 1931 Thomas Harbison Nationalist Cahir Healy Nationalist Death

Footnotes

  1. Craig sat as an MP for North Down in the Northern Ireland Parliament.

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References

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