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1931 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

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1931 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

← 1929 27 October 1931 1935 →

13 seats in Northern Ireland of the 615 seats in the House of Commons
  First party Second party
 
Leader Viscount Craigavon Joseph Devlin
Party UUP Nationalist
Leader since 1921 1918
Leader's seat Did not stand[fn 1] Fermanagh and Tyrone
Seats won 11 2

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

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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.

Results[1]
Party MPs Change Uncontested Votes[2] %[2]
Ulster Unionist 11 Steady 9 149,566 56.1
Nationalist 2 Steady 0 123,053 38.9
NI Labour 0 Steady 0 9,410 5.0
Total 13 Steady 9 282,029 100

MPs elected

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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 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
  1. ^ Craigavon sat as an MP for North Down in the Northern Ireland Parliament.

References

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  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ a b Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (2006). British Electoral Facts. Ashgate. p. 29.