1935 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

Main article: 1935 United Kingdom general election

1935 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

←  1931 14 November 1935 1945  →
13 seats in Northern Ireland of the 615 seats in the House of Commons
First party Second party   Leader Viscount Craigavon T. J. Campbell Party UUP Nationalist Alliance Conservative Leader since 1921 1934 Leader's seat Did not stand Did not stand Seats won 11 [a] 2 Seat change Popular vote 176,925 [b] 50,747 [b] Percentage 62.2% 17.8% Swing 6.2% 21.1%

The 1935 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 14 November 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

This election saw no change in the distribution of seats from Northern Ireland. Seven MPs were elected unopposed, all of them Ulster Unionists.

In the election as a whole, a second National Government which had been formed before the election was returned with Stanley Baldwin of the Conservative Party as Prime Minister. The Ulster Unionists were members of the Conservative Party. Also in the government were the National Liberal Party and National Labour.

1935 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	0	0	84.6	62.2	176,925	+6.2
	Ind. Nationalist	3	0	0	0	0	—	20.0	56,833	+20.0
	Nationalist	2	2	0	0	0	15.4	17.8	50,747	-21.1
	NI Labour	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	-5.0

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	Alexander Browne
Down		Ulster Unionist	Viscount Castlereagh
		Ulster Unionist	David Reid
Fermanagh and Tyrone		Nationalist	Patrick Cunningham
		Nationalist	Anthony Mulvey
Londonderry		Ulster Unionist	Sir Ronald Ross, Bt
Queen's University of Belfast		Ulster Unionist	Thomas Sinclair

By-elections

By-election	Date	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause
Down	10 May 1939	David Reid		UUP	James Little		UUP	Death
Belfast East	8 February 1940	Herbert Dixon		UUP	Henry Peirson Harland		UUP	Elevation to the Peerage
Queen's University of Belfast	2 November 1940	Thomas Sinclair		UUP	Douglas Savory		UUP	Resignation
Belfast West	9 February 1943	Alexander Browne		UUP	Jack Beattie		NI Labour	Death
Antrim	11 February 1943	Sir Joseph McConnell, Bt		UUP	John Dermot Campbell		UUP	Death

Notes

1. Includes 7 members elected unopposed.
2. Voting took place in 6 of 13 seats.
   The other MPs were unopposed.

References

1. "Elections to the United Kingdom Parliament held in Northern Ireland: General Election 1935". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
2. Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (2006). British Electoral Facts. Ashgate. p. 31.