1931 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland
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The 1931 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 27 October 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
This election saw no change in the distribution of seats from Northern Ireland.
In the election as a whole, a National Government which had been formed before the election was returned with Ramsay MacDonald of National Labour as Prime Minister. Also in the government were the Conservative Party, which included the Ulster Unionists, and the Liberal Party.
Party | MPs | Change | Uncontested | Votes[2] | %[2] | |
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Ulster Unionist | 11 | 9 | 149,566 | 56.1 | ||
Nationalist | 2 | 0 | 123,053 | 38.9 | ||
NI Labour | 0 | 0 | 9,410 | 5.0 | ||
Total | 13 | 9 | 282,029 | 100 |
MPs elected
Constituency | Party | MP | |
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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 | Alexander Browne | |
Down | Ulster Unionist | Viscount Castlereagh | |
Ulster Unionist | David Reid | ||
Fermanagh and Tyrone | Nationalist | Joseph Devlin | |
Nationalist | Cahir Healy | ||
Londonderry | Ulster Unionist | Ronald Ross | |
Queen's University of Belfast | Ulster Unionist | Thomas Sinclair |
- ^ Craigavon sat as an MP for North Down in the Northern Ireland Parliament.
References
- ^ "Elections to the United Kingdom Parliament held in Northern Ireland: General Election 1931". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ a b Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (2006). British Electoral Facts. Ashgate. p. 29.
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