1929 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

none 1929 United Kingdom general election January 2019 January 2019 1929 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland parliamentary no 1924 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland 1924 30 May 1929 1931 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland 1931 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 James Craig Ulster Unionist Party Conservative Party (UK) 7 June 1921 Did not stand 11UUP Includes 2 members elected unopposed. 2 247,291Contest Voting took place in 9 of 13 seats. The other MPs were unopposed. 68.0% 15.8% Joe Devlin.JPG 120 120 160 0 0 Joe Devlin 14 December 1918 Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) Fermanagh and Tyrone 2Nat Includes 2 members elected unopposed. 2 24,177Contest 6.6% New party The 1929 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 30 May 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 The Nationalist Party ran in this election, having not contested the previous election in 1924. It regained the two seats in Fermanagh and Tyrone it had held from 1922 to 1924. In the election as a whole, the Conservative Party, which included the Ulster Unionists, led by Stanley Baldwin, lost its majority and the Labour Party formed a minority government with Ramsay MacDonald as Prime Minister. 1929 United Kingdom general election in Northern IrelandWalker Brian Mercer Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1918–1992 (New History of Ireland) Dublin Royal Irish Academy 17–18 0901714968 1992https://electionsireland.org/results/general/ni/1929.cfm Elections to the United Kingdom Parliament held in Northern Ireland: General Election 1929 ElectionsIreland.org 4 January 2019 11 January 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190111121604/https://electionsireland.org/results/general/ni/1929.cfm live Ulster Unionist Party yes 13 11UUP 0 2 -2 247,291 68.0 84.6 -15.8 Liberal Party (UK) 6 0 0 0 0 61,192 16.8 — +16.8 Independent Unionist 2 0 0 0 0 25,057 6.9 — +6.7 Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) 3 2Nat 2 0 +2 24,177 6.6 15.4 +15.4 Sinn Féin 0 0 0 0 0 — — — -9.9 Northern Ireland Labour Party 0 0 0 0 0 — — — -6.1 |} 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 UnionistWilliam AllenDownUlster UnionistDavid ReidUlster UnionistJohn SimmsFermanagh and TyroneNationalist PartyJoseph DevlinNationalist PartyThomas HarbisonLondonderryUlster UnionistRonald RossQueen's University of BelfastUlster UnionistThomas Sinclair By-election By-election Date Incumbent Party Winner Party CauseFermanagh and Tyrone7 March 1931Thomas Harbison Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)Cahir Healy Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)Death See also 1929 United Kingdom general election in England 1929 United Kingdom general election in Scotland 1929 United Kingdom general election in Wales Notes References #Northern Ireland 1929 Category:1929 elections in Northern Ireland Category:May 1929 in the United Kingdom