1929 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

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.

Results^[1]^[2]
Party		MPs	Change	Uncontested	Votes^[3]	Adjusted votes^{[a 1]}	%
	Ulster Unionist	11	2	2	354,657	247,291	68.0
	Nationalist	2	2	2	24,177	24,177	6.6
	Liberal	0		0	100,103	61,192	16.8
	Independent Unionist	0		0		25,057	6.9
	Independent	0		0		6,059	1.6
Total		13		4	510,053	363,777	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

Constituency		MP
Antrim	Ulster Unionist	Sir Joseph McConnell, Bt
Antrim	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
Down	Ulster Unionist	John Simms
Fermanagh and Tyrone	Nationalist Party	Joseph Devlin
Fermanagh and Tyrone	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

^ Craig sat as an MP for North Down 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. 17–18. ISBN 0901714968.
^ "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.
^ Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (2006). British Electoral Facts. Ashgate. p. 27.

[5] Votes in constituencies using the bloc voting system are counted as 0.5 each, as each voter had one vote per seat.

[1] Craig sat as an MP for North Down in the Northern Ireland Parliament.

[2] Walker, Brian Mercer (1992). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1918–1992 (New History of Ireland). Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 17–18. ISBN 0901714968.

[3] "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.

[rallings-4] Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (2006). British Electoral Facts. Ashgate. p. 27.

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