1931 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

none 1931 United Kingdom general election January 2019 January 2019 1931 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland parliamentary no 1929 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland 1929 27 October 1931 1935 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland 1935 13 seats in Northern Ireland of the 615 seats in the House of Commons James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon.jpg 120 120 160 0 0 Viscount Craigavon Ulster Unionist Party Conservative Party (UK) 1921 Did not stand 11UUP Includes 9 members elected unopposed. 104,555Contest Voting took place in 4 of 13 seats. The other MPs were unopposed. 56.0% 12.0% Joe Devlin.JPG 120 120 160 0 0 Joseph Devlin 1918 Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) Fermanagh and Tyrone 2 72,633Contest 38.9% 32.3% The 1931 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 27 October as part of the wider general election. There were ten constituencies, seven single-seat constituencies with MPs 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 for Northern Ireland. In the election as a whole, a National Government which had been formed before the election was returned with Ramsay MacDonald of National Labour as Prime Minister. Also in the government were the Conservative Party, which included the Ulster Unionists, and the Liberal Party. Nine of the eleven Ulster Unionist MPs were elected unopposed. 1931 United Kingdom general election in Northern Irelandhttps://electionsireland.org/results/general/ni/1931.cfm Elections to the United Kingdom Parliament held in Northern Ireland: General Election 1931 ElectionsIreland.org 5 January 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20131203071146/http://www.electionsireland.org///results/general/ni/1931.cfm 3 December 2013 deadRallings Colin Thrasher Michael British Electoral Facts 2006 Ashgate 29 Ulster Unionist Party yes 13 11UUP 0 0 0 104,555 56.0 84.6 -12.0 Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) 3 2 0 0 0 72,633 38.9 15.4 +32.3 Northern Ireland Labour Party 1 0 0 0 0 9,410 5.0 — +5.0 Liberal Party (UK) 0 0 0 0 0 — — — -16.8 Independent Unionist 0 0 0 0 0 — — — -6.7 |} Votes in constituencies using the bloc voting system are counted as 0.5 each, as each voter had one vote per seat. a MPs elected Constituency Party MPAntrimUlster UnionistSir Joseph McConnell, BtUlster UnionistHugh O'NeillArmaghUlster UnionistWilliam AllenBelfast EastUlster UnionistHerbert DixonBelfast NorthUlster UnionistThomas SomersetBelfast SouthUlster UnionistWilliam StewartBelfast WestUlster UnionistAlexander BrowneDownUlster UnionistViscount CastlereaghUlster UnionistDavid ReidFermanagh and TyroneNationalistJoseph DevlinNationalistCahir HealyLondonderryUlster UnionistRonald RossQueen's University of BelfastUlster UnionistThomas Sinclair fn See also 1931 United Kingdom general election in England 1931 United Kingdom general election in Scotland 1931 United Kingdom general election in Wales Notes References #Northern Ireland 1931 Category:1931 elections in Northern Ireland Category:October 1931 in the United Kingdom