1923 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

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[edit]

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.

Results^[1]^[2]
Party		MPs	Uncontested	Votes^[3]	Adjusted votes^{[a 1]}	%
	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[edit]

Constituency		MP
Antrim	Ulster Unionist	Charles Craig
Antrim	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
Down	Ulster Unionist	John Simms
Fermanagh and Tyrone	Nationalist Party	Thomas Harbison
Fermanagh and Tyrone	Nationalist Party	Cahir Healy
Londonderry	Ulster Unionist	Malcolm Macnaghten
Queen's University of Belfast	Ulster Unionist	Sir William Whitla

Footnotes[edit]

^ 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[edit]

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

[6] 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 Down in the Northern Ireland Parliament.

[2] Devlin sat as an MP for Belfast West in the Northern Ireland Parliament.

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

[4] "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-5] Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (2006). British Electoral Facts. Ashgate. p. 24.

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