1921 Northern Ireland general election

none September 2017 September 2017 1921 Northern Ireland general election Northern Ireland Flag of the United Kingdom.svg parliamentary no MPs elected 1925 Northern Ireland general election 1925 All 52 seats to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 27 seats were needed for a majority 24 May 1921 88.0% 150x150px James Craig 1921 Ulster Unionist Party Down 40 343,347 66.9% 150x150px Éamon de Valera 1917 Sinn Féin Down 6 104,917 20.5% 150x150px Joe Devlin 1918 Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) Belfast West 6 60,577 11.8% File:1921 Northern Ireland General Election Results Map.png 400px Results of the 1921 Northern Ireland General Election. Prime Minister Prime Minister after election N/A James Craig Ulster Unionist Partyelection of Southern Ireland 1921 Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland general elections The 1921 Northern Ireland general election was held on Tuesday, 24 May 1921. It was the first election to the Parliament of Northern Ireland. Ulster Unionist Party members won two-thirds of votes cast and more than three-quarters of the seats in the assembly. Sinn Féin in particular was shocked at the scale of the Unionist victory, having spent considerable resources on the campaign, and had expected to win between 1/3 and 1/2 of the seats. Sinn Féin and Nationalist Party candidates were successful in the joint County Tyrone/Fermanagh constituency with 54.71 percent of the vote.https://electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1921NI&cons=727 Northern Ireland: 24 May 1921 Elections Ireland 14 October 2023 The election was conducted using the single transferable vote system. The election took place during the Irish War of Independence, on the same day as the election to the parliament of Southern Ireland. As the election in Southern Ireland was merely a formality, with all candidates being returned unopposed (and therefore guaranteeing Sinn Féin complete dominance), Sinn Féin was able to focus its resources entirely on the election in Northern Ireland. The Sinn Féin campaign focused on the issue of partition implemented by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, with Sinn Féin and the Nationalist party running on a combined anti-partition ticket. Sinn Féin campaign Sinn Féin invested considerable resources in their campaign, placing advertisements in almost 50 northern newspapers making a range of arguments against partition. Sinn Féin also published its own newspaper, The Unionist, of which 50,000 copies were sent to prominent Protestants in East Ulster, particularly County Antrim. In particular, Sinn Féin claimed there was widespread ignorance over the situation in Ulster and warned against the economic dangers of partition, particularly in relation to threats of a renewed boycott against northern goods in a manner similar to the "Belfast Boycott". Sinn Féin also attempted to attract Ulster's rural and agricultural workers, arguing partition would put them at the mercy of eastern Ulster's urban elites.Lynch Robert Revolutionary Ireland, 1912–25 https://books.google.com/books?id=RTfbBQAAQBAJ&dq=despite+all+this+the+nationalist+hopes+for+the+election+were+high&pg=PA97 Bloomsbury Publishing 2015 96–97 9781441186898 Despite the scale and organisation of the campaign, its arguments failed to resonate with voters, with the party's chief organiser Eamon Donnelly claiming on the day of the election that all Sinn Féin's efforts had achieved was assuring a high Unionist turnout. Allegations were made claiming intimidation of Nationalist voters, arrests of candidates/organisers and the seizure of electoral literature.Gallagher Frank 1957 The Indivisible Island London Victor Gollancz Ltd. 148 Sinn Féin treated the two elections north and south as combined elections to the Second Dáil. Five of the six successful Sinn Féin candidates in Northern Ireland were also elected for constituencies in Southern Ireland; Seán O'Mahony was the only Sinn Féin success solely elected in Northern Ireland. Results + ↓ 40 6 6 UUP Sinn Fein Nationalist 1921 Northern Ireland general election center|360px Ulster Unionist Party yes 40 40 N/A N/A N/A 343,347 66.9 76.92 N/A Sinn Féin 20 6 N/A N/A N/A 104,917 20.5 11.54 N/A Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) 12 6 N/A N/A N/A 60,577 11.8 11.54 N/A Belfast Labour Party 4 0 N/A N/A N/A 3,075 0.6 0.00 N/A Independent (politician) 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 926 0.2 0.00 N/A |} Total electorate: 582,464; turnout: 88.0% (512,842). Votes summary Popular vote #ddd 500px 400px Ulster Unionist Ulster Unionist Party 66.95 Sinn Féin Sinn Féin 20.46 Nationalist Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) 11.81 Belfast Labour Belfast Labour Party 0.60 Independent Independent (politician) 0.18 Seats summary Parliamentary seats #ddd 500px 400px Ulster Unionist Ulster Unionist Party 76.92 Sinn Féin Sinn Féin 11.54 Nationalist Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) 11.54 See also List of members of the 1st Parliament of Northern Ireland Footnotes References Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results https://web.archive.org/web/20171116175039/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/totals.html 16 November 2017 Northern Ireland general election 1921 Northern Ireland general election General