1923 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland
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The 1923 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 6 December as part of the wider
bloc voting
. Only three of the constituencies had contested elections.
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
- ISBN 0901714968.
- ^ "Elections to the United Kingdom Parliament held in Northern Ireland: General Election 1923". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 2 January 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
- ^ Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (2006). British Electoral Facts. Ashgate. p. 24.