1929 Northern Ireland general election
The 1929 Northern Ireland general election was held on 22 May 1929. Like all previous elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland, it produced a large majority for the Ulster Unionist Party. It was the first held after the abolition of proportional representation and the redrawing of electoral boundaries to create single-seat constituencies. As with the rest of the United Kingdom, this has made it more difficult for independent and minor party candidates to win seats.
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All 52 seats to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 27 seats were needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Results
| 37 | 11 | 3 | 1 |
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| Party | Candidates | Votes | |||||||||||||
| Stood | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | |||||||
| UUP | 43 | 37 | N/A | N/A | +5 | 71.2 | 50.8 | 148,579 | -4.2 | ||||||
| Ind U | 10 | 3 | N/A | N/A | -1 | 5.8 | 14.3 | 41,778 | +5.3 | ||||||
| Nationalist | 11 | 11 | N/A | N/A | +1 | 21.2 | 11.7 | 34,069 | -9.5 | ||||||
| NI Labour | 5 | 1 | N/A | N/A | -2 | 1.9 | 8.0 | 23,334 | +3.3 | ||||||
| Ulster Liberal | 5 | 0 | N/A | N/A | -1 | — | 6.2 | 18,208 | +4.9 | ||||||
| Local Option | 3 | 0 | N/A | N/A | 0 | — | 3.3 | 9,776 | N/A | ||||||
| Town Tenants' Association | 2 | 0 | N/A | N/A | 0 | — | 2.4 | 6,901 | +1.5 | ||||||
| Independent Nationalist | 1 | 0 | N/A | N/A | 0 | — | 1.3 | 3,694 | N/A | ||||||
| Independent | 1 | 0 | N/A | N/A | 0 | — | 1.2 | 3,437 | N/A | ||||||
| Independent Labour | 2 | 0 | N/A | N/A | 0 | — | 0.8 | 2,442 | N/A | ||||||
Electorate: 775,307 (432,439 in contested seats); Turnout: 67.6% (292,218). Ulster Liberal Party result is compared to Unbought Tenants' Association in 1925.
Votes summary
Seats summary
Footnotes
- Kyle stood in Belfast Oldpark but was defeated.
References
- Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results Archived 16 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine
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