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 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.
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6 December 1923
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All 13 seats in Northern Ireland to the House of Commons | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Results
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] | |||||||||||||||
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| 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 | â | 13.8 | 22,225 | +13.8 | ||||||
| Ind. Unionist | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | â | 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
Footnotes
- Devlin sat as an MP for Belfast West in the Northern Ireland Parliament.