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1923 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland
← 1922 6 December 1923 1924 →
All 13 seats in Northern Ireland to the House of Commons
  First party Second party
 
Leader James Craig Joe Devlin
Party UUP Nationalist
Alliance Conservative
Leader since 7 June 1921 14 December 1918
Leader's seat N/A[fn 1] N/A[fn 2]
Seats won 11[a] 2
Seat change Steady Steady
Popular vote 79,453[b] 43,835[b]
Percentage 49.4% 27.2%
Swing Decrease7.8% Decrease7.4%

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.

Results

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Voting only took place for 4 of 13 seats. The other 9 MPs (all Ulster Unionists) were unopposed. 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.

1923 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland[1][2]
Party Candidates Votes
Stood Elected Gained Unseated Net % of total % No. Net %
  UUP 13 11[a] 0 0 0 84.6 49.4 79,453 -7.8
  Nationalist 2 2 0 0 0 15.4 27.3 43,835 -7.4
  Independent Labour 1 0 0 0 0 — 13.8 22,225 +13.8
  Ind. Unionist 1 0 0 0 0 — 9.4 15,171 +9.4

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

MPs elected

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Constituency Party MP
Antrim Ulster Unionist Charles Craig
Ulster Unionist Hugh O'Neill
Armagh Ulster Unionist William Allen
Belfast East Ulster Unionist Herbert Dixon
Belfast North Ulster Unionist Thomas McConnell
Belfast South Ulster Unionist Thomas Moles
Belfast West Ulster Unionist Robert Lynn
Down Ulster Unionist David Reid
Ulster Unionist John Simms
Fermanagh and Tyrone Nationalist Party Thomas Harbison
Nationalist Party Cahir Healy
Londonderry Ulster Unionist Malcolm Macnaghten
Queen's University of Belfast Ulster Unionist Sir William Whitla

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Craig sat as an MP for Down in the Northern Ireland Parliament.
  2. ^ Devlin sat as an MP for Belfast West in the Northern Ireland Parliament.

Notes

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  1. ^ a b Includes 9 members elected unopposed.
  2. ^ a b Voting only took place in 4 of 13 seats.
    The other 9 MPs were unopposed.

References

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  1. ^ Walker, Brian Mercer (1992). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1918–1992 (New History of Ireland). Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 15–16. ISBN 0901714968.
  2. ^ "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.
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