1931 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

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1931 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

← 1929

27 October 1931

1935 →

13 seats in Northern Ireland of the 615 seats in the House of Commons

	First party	Second party

Leader	Viscount Craigavon	Joseph Devlin
Party	UUP	Nationalist
Leader since	1921	1918
Leader's seat	Did not stand^{[fn 1]}	Fermanagh and Tyrone
Seats won	11	2

The 1931 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 27 October as part of the wider general election. There were ten constituencies, seven single-seat constituencies with MPs elected by FPTP and three two-seat constituencies with MPs elected by bloc voting.

Results

This election saw no change in the distribution of seats from Northern Ireland.

In the election as a whole, a National Government which had been formed before the election was returned with Ramsay MacDonald of National Labour as Prime Minister. Also in the government were the Conservative Party, which included the Ulster Unionists, and the Liberal Party.

Results^[1]
Party		MPs	Uncontested	Votes^[2]	%^[2]
	Ulster Unionist	11	9	149,566	56.1
	Nationalist	2	0	123,053	38.9
	NI Labour	0	0	9,410	5.0
Total		13	9	282,029	100

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	Alexander Browne
Down	Ulster Unionist	Viscount Castlereagh
Down	Ulster Unionist	David Reid
Fermanagh and Tyrone	Nationalist	Joseph Devlin
Fermanagh and Tyrone	Nationalist	Cahir Healy
Londonderry	Ulster Unionist	Ronald Ross
Queen's University of Belfast	Ulster Unionist	Thomas Sinclair

^ Craigavon sat as an MP for North Down in the Northern Ireland Parliament.

References

^ "Elections to the United Kingdom Parliament held in Northern Ireland: General Election 1931". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
^ ^a ^b Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (2006). British Electoral Facts. Ashgate. p. 29.

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