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, leading to the Irish ethnic group to have minimal representation.

← 1925

22 May 1929

1933 →

← outgoing members

MPs elected →

All 52 seats to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland
27 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	James Craig	Joe Devlin	Samuel Kyle
Party	UUP	Nationalist	NI Labour
Leader since	7 June 1921	1918	1925
Leader's seat	North Down	Belfast Central	Belfast North (abolished)[fn 1]
Last election	32 seat, 55.0%	10 seats, 23.8%	3 seats, 4.7%
Seats won	37	11	1
Seat change	5	1	2
Popular vote	148,579	34,069	23,334
Percentage	50.8%	11.7%	8.0%
Swing	4.2%	9.5%	3.3%

Election results by constituency.

Prime Minister before election

James Craig
UUP

Elected Prime Minister

James Craig
UUP

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Results

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37	11	3	1
UUP	Nationalist	IU

1929 Northern Ireland general election

Party		Candidates						Votes
Party		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
	Independent Unionist	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

Popular vote

Ulster Unionist			50.85%
Independent Unionist			14.30%
Nationalist Party			11.66%
Labour			7.99%
Ulster Liberal			6.23%
Independent			3.28%
Other			5.71%

Seats summary

Parliamentary seats

Ulster Unionist			71.15%
Nationalist Party			21.15%
Independent Unionist			5.77%
Labour			1.92%

Footnotes

Kyle stood in Belfast Oldpark but was defeated.

References

Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results

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