1923 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland
The 1923 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 6 December 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. Only three of the constituencies had contested elections.
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Results
The election saw no change in the representation of the 13 seats in Northern Ireland.
In the election as a whole, the Conservative Party, now led by Stanley Baldwin, lost its majority and the Labour Party formed a minority with Ramsay MacDonald as Prime Minister. The Ulster Unionists sat as members of the Conservative Party.
Party | MPs | Change | Uncontested | Votes[3] | Adjusted votes[a 1] | % | |
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Ulster Unionist | 11 | ![]() |
9 | 117,161 | 79,453 | 49.4 | |
Nationalist | 2 | ![]() |
0 | 87,671 | 43,835 | 27.3 | |
Independent Labour | 0 | ![]() |
0 | 22,225 | 13.8 | ||
Independent Unionist | 0 | ![]() |
0 | 15,171 | 9.4 | ||
Total | 13 | ![]() |
9 | 242,258 | 160,685 | 100 |
- Votes in constituencies using the bloc voting system are counted as 0.5 each, as each voter had one vote per seat.
MPs elected
Footnotes
- Craig sat as an MP for Down in the Northern Ireland Parliament.
- Devlin sat as an MP for Belfast West in the Northern Ireland Parliament.
References
- Walker, Brian Mercer (1992). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1918–1992 (New History of Ireland). Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 15–16. ISBN 0901714968.
- "Elections to the United Kingdom Parliament held in Northern Ireland: General Election 1923". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
- Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (2006). British Electoral Facts. Ashgate. p. 24.
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