1924 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

none January 2019 January 2019 1924 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland parliamentary no 1923 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland 1923 29 October 1924 1929 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland 1929 13 seats in Northern Ireland of 615 seats in the House of Commons James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon.jpg 120 120 160 0 0 James Craig Ulster Unionist Party Conservative Party (UK) 7 June 1921 Did not stand 13UUP Includes 3 members elected unopposed. 2 286,895Contest Voting took place in 10 of 13 seats. The other 3 MPs were unopposed. 83.8% 34.4% Eamon de Valera c 1922-30.jpg 120 120 160 0 0 Éamon de Valera October 1917 Sinn Féin Did not stand 0 33,981Contest 9.9% New party On 29 October 1924, the 1924 United Kingdom general election was held in Northern Ireland to elect all 615 members of the House of Commons, with 13 seats being in Northern Ireland.British Electoral Facts Colin Rallings Micheal Thrasher Total Politics 978-1-907278-03-7 26-27 2006British Electoral Facts 1885-1975 F.W.S. Craig Macmillan Press 3 14 0333197348 1976 There were ten constituencies, seven single-seat constituencies with elected by first-past-the-post voting and three two-seat constituencies with MPs elected by bloc voting. It was the third general election to be held in less than two years. Parliament was dissolved on 9 October.https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/RP97-40/RP97-40.pdf Parliamentary Election Timetables 3rd House of Commons Library 25 March 1997 26 August 2026 Following the decision to withdraw the prosecution of Communist John Ross Campbell under the Incitement to Mutiny Act 1797 by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald on 13 August 1924, a motion was passed against the government on 8 October 1924. Despite not being framed as such, this was regarded by the Government as a loss of a motion of no confidence and caused the dissolution of Parliament on 9 October 1924 with new elections being called.Graper Elmer D. 1925 The British Election https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003055400020955/type/journal_article American Political Science Review en 19 1 84–96 10.2307/2938896 2938896 145751193 0003-0554 subscription It was the first in which party leaders would give political broadcasts over radio during an general election campaign.British Electoral Facts 1885-1975 F.W.S. Craig Macmillan Press 3 173 0333197348 1976 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 IrelandWalker Brian Mercer Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1918–1992 (New History of Ireland) Dublin Royal Irish Academy 16–17 0901714968 1992https://electionsireland.org/results/general/ni/1924.cfm Elections to the United Kingdom Parliament held in Northern Ireland: General Election 1924 ElectionsIreland.org 4 January 2019 4 January 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190104231036/https://electionsireland.org/results/general/ni/1924.cfm live Ulster Unionist Party yes 13 13UUP 2 0 +2 286,895 83.8 100.0 +34.4 Sinn Féin 8 0 0 0 0 33,981 9.9 — +9.9 Northern Ireland Labour Party 1 0 0 0 0 21,122 6.1 — +6.1 Independent Unionist 1 0 0 0 0 517 0.2 — -9.2 Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) 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. a MPs elected Constituency Party MPAntrimUlster UnionistCharles CraigUlster UnionistHugh O'NeillArmaghUlster UnionistWilliam AllenBelfast EastUlster UnionistHerbert DixonBelfast NorthUlster UnionistThomas McConnellBelfast SouthUlster UnionistThomas MolesBelfast WestUlster UnionistRobert LynnDownUlster UnionistDavid ReidUlster UnionistJohn SimmsFermanagh and TyroneUlster UnionistCharles FallsUlster UnionistJames PringleLondonderryUlster UnionistMalcolm MacnaghtenQueen's University of BelfastUlster UnionistThomas Sinclair By-election By-election Date Incumbent Party Winner Party CauseLondonderry29 January 1929Malcolm Macnaghten Ulster Unionist PartyRonald Ross Ulster Unionist PartyAppointment to High Court of Northern Ireland See also 1924 United Kingdom general election in England 1924 United Kingdom general election in Scotland 1924 United Kingdom general election in Wales Notes References #Northern Ireland 1924 Category:1924 elections in Northern Ireland