1929 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

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1929 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

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13 seats in Northern Ireland of the 615 seats in the House of Commons
First party Second party   Leader James Craig Joe Devlin Party UUP Nationalist Alliance Conservative Leader since 7 June 1921 14 December 1918 Leader's seat Did not stand Fermanagh and Tyrone Seats won 11 [a] 2 [b] Seat change 2 2 Popular vote 247,291 [c] 24,177 [c] Percentage 68.0% 6.6% Swing 15.8% New party

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.

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.

1929 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland [1] [2]
Party		Candidates						Votes
		Stood	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	UUP	13	11 [a]	0	2	-2	84.6	68.0	247,291	-15.8
	Liberal	6	0	0	0	0	—	16.8	61,192	+16.8
	Ind. Unionist	2	0	0	0	0	—	6.9	25,057	+6.7
	Nationalist	3	2 [b]	2	0	+2	15.4	6.6	24,177	+15.4
	Sinn Féin	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	-9.9
	NI Labour	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	-6.1

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

MPs elected

Constituency	Party		MP
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-election	Date	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause
Fermanagh and Tyrone	7 March 1931	Thomas Harbison		Nationalist	Cahir Healy		Nationalist	Death

Notes

1. Includes 2 members elected unopposed.
2. Includes 2 members elected unopposed.
3. Voting took place in 9 of 13 seats.
   The other 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. 17–18. ISBN   0901714968.
2. "Elections to the United Kingdom Parliament held in Northern Ireland: General Election 1929". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 11 January 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2019.