1929 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

Main article: 1929 United Kingdom general election

1929 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland
← 1924 30 May 1929 1931 →
13 seats in Northern Ireland of the 615 seats in the House of Commons
  First party Second party
 
Leader James Craig Joe Devlin
Party UUP Nationalist
Alliance Conservative
Leader since 7 June 1921 14 December 1918
Leader's seat Did not stand Fermanagh and Tyrone
Seats won 11[a] 2[b]
Seat change Decrease2 Increase2
Popular vote 247,291[c] 24,177[c]
Percentage 68.0% 6.6%
Swing Decrease15.8% 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 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 Ireland[1][2]
Party Candidates Votes
Stood Elected Gained Unseated Net % of total % No. Net %
  UUP 13 11[a] 0 2 -2 84.6 68.0 247,291 -15.8
  Liberal 6 0 0 0 0 — 16.8 61,192 +16.8
  Ind. Unionist 2 0 0 0 0 — 6.9 25,057 +6.7
  Nationalist 3 2[b] 2 0 +2 15.4 6.6 24,177 +15.4
  Sinn Féin 0 0 0 0 0 — — — -9.9
  NI Labour 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.

MPs elected

Constituency Party MP
Antrim Ulster Unionist Sir Joseph McConnell, Bt
Ulster Unionist Hugh O'Neill
Armagh Ulster Unionist William Allen
Belfast East Ulster Unionist Herbert Dixon
Belfast North Ulster Unionist Thomas Somerset
Belfast South Ulster Unionist William Stewart
Belfast West Ulster Unionist William Allen
Down Ulster Unionist David Reid
Ulster Unionist John Simms
Fermanagh and Tyrone Nationalist Party Joseph Devlin
Nationalist Party Thomas Harbison
Londonderry Ulster Unionist Ronald Ross
Queen's University of Belfast Ulster Unionist Thomas Sinclair

By-election

By-election Date Incumbent Party Winner Party Cause
Fermanagh and Tyrone 7 March 1931 Thomas Harbison Nationalist Cahir Healy Nationalist Death

Footnotes

Notes

  1. ^ a b Includes 2 members elected unopposed.
  2. ^ a b Includes 2 members elected unopposed.
  3. ^ a b Voting took place in 9 of 13 seats.
    The other MPs were unopposed.


References

  1. ^ Walker, Brian Mercer (1992). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1918–1992 (New History of Ireland). Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 17–18. ISBN 0901714968.
  2. ^ "Elections to the United Kingdom Parliament held in Northern Ireland: General Election 1929". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 11 January 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2019.