1924 Northern Ireland local elections

none April 2022 1924 Northern Ireland local elections Flag of Northern Ireland (1924–1953).svg parliamentary no 1920 Irish local elections 1920 All council seats January and June 1924 James Craig 150px Ulster Unionist Party Joseph Devlin 145px Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) Colours denote the winning party with outright control Colours denote the party with the most seats The 1924 Northern Irish local elections were held in January & June 1924 for the various county & district councils of Northern Ireland. The election followed changes by the Unionist government, which had redrawn electoral districts, abolished PR for local elections, and implemented a requirement for members of local authorities to take an oath of allegiance.A New History of Ireland Volume VII: Ireland, 1921-84, p.124 These changes are now widely considered by historians as gerrymandering intended to manipulate the election outcome in favour of the Ulster Unionists. As a result unionists won the majority of seats in several nationalist areas and most nationalists' victories from the 1920 Irish local elections were overturned.Buckland Patrick The factory of grievances : devolved government in Northern Ireland, 1921-39 1979 Gill and Macmillan 0-06-490752-X Dublin 6001755 Background The elections were the first local elections to be held in Northern Ireland, which had been created by the Government of Ireland Act 1920. Northern Ireland's county and district councils had last been elected in the all-Ireland 1920 Irish local elections using the single transferable vote (STV) voting system, which had been introduced in the hopes of preventing Sinn Féin from winning the same kind of landslide that the FPTP ward system had allowed it in the 1918 general election. Whilst Unionists in Southern Ireland had supported the introduction of STV for local elections, Ulster's Unionists had opposed it, with the Ulster Unionist leader James Craig favouring retention of the FPTP ward system used in the rest of Britain, and the UUP was committed to returning to the old system. In contrast, Nationalists favoured the retention of a proportional representation based system as a safeguard for minorities. The Northern Irish parliament, dominated by the UUP who held 75% of the seats following the 1921 election, legislated for a return to the old FPTP system in 1922,The Northern Ireland Question: Nationalism, Unionism and Partition and also legislated for the redrawing of electoral divisions.Act abolishes Proportional Representation https://centenariestimeline.com/1922_LGA.html Decade of Centenaries 17 June 2023 Results thumb|upright=2.0|Map of the Rural and Urban Districts of Northern Ireland As a result of the nationalist boycott Unionists regained control of the county councils for Fermanagh and Tyrone, with no contests taking place in either county. Unionists also retook 8 rural district councils: Cookstown Dungannon Kilkeel Lisnaskea Newry No. 1 Newry No. 2 Omagh Strabane In Belfast Unionists focused their campaigning on the wards most at risk of falling to the new Northern Irish Labour Party. Overall the results saw large defeats for Nationalists, Sinn Féin, and Labour candidates. After 1920 these parties had together controlled 24 of the 75 local authorities in Northern Ireland; by 1927 they controlled 12. Detailed results by council type County councils thumb|Results by county council. AuthorityUUPSinn FéinNationalist Party (Northern Ireland)Northern Ireland Labour PartyIndependent (politician)Total ResultDetailsAntrim Ulster Unionist PartyDetailsArmagh Ulster Unionist PartyDetailsDown Ulster Unionist PartyDetailsFermanaghOnly Unionist candidates were nominated. Fermanagh County Council nominations The Irish Times 23 April 1924 https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1924/0423/Pg007.html#Ar00727 7 subscription All 0 0 0 0 Ulster Unionist PartyDetailsLondonderry Ulster Unionist PartyDetailsTyroneOnly Unionist candidates were nominated. https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1924/0529/Pg005.html#Ar00521 5 Northern local elections The Irish Times 29 May 1924 subscription All 0 0 0 0 Ulster Unionist PartyDetailsTotals County Borough councils AuthorityUUPSinn FéinNationalist Party (Northern Ireland)Northern Ireland Labour PartyIndependent (politician)Total ResultDetailsBelfast"Belfast Corporation Elections", Irish Times, 16 January 1924 12 0 0 2 1 Ulster Unionist PartyDetailsDerry No overall controlDetails District councils AuthorityUUPSinn FéinNationalist Party (Northern Ireland)Northern Ireland Labour PartyIndependent (politician)Total ResultDetailsArmagh DetailsBanbridge No.1 DetailsBanbridge No.2 DetailsCastleblayney No.2 DetailsLurgan No.1 DetailsLurgan No.2 DetailsNewry No.1 Ulster Unionist PartyDetailsNewry No.2 Ulster Unionist PartyDetails References 30em 1924 Category:1924 elections in Northern Ireland Category:1924 United Kingdom local elections Category:Northern Ireland local elections by year