1935 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

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14 November 1935

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

	First party	Second party

Leader	Viscount Craigavon	T. J. Campbell
Party	Ulster Unionist	Nationalist
Leader since	1921	1934
Leader's seat	Did not stand^[fn 1]	Fermanagh and Tyrone
Seats won	11	2

The 1935 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 14 November 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.

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Results

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

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

Results^[1]
Party		MPs	Uncontested	Votes^[2]	%^[2]
	Ulster Unionist	11	7	292,840	64.9
	Nationalist	2	0	101,494	22.4
	Independent Republican	0	0	56,833	12.6
Total		13	7	451,167	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	Patrick Cunningham
Fermanagh and Tyrone	Nationalist	Anthony Mulvey
Londonderry	Ulster Unionist	Sir Ronald Ross, Bt
Queen's University of Belfast	Ulster Unionist	Thomas Sinclair

By-elections

By-election	Date	Incumbent		Winner		Cause
Down	10 May 1939	David Reid	Ulster Unionist	James Little	Ulster Unionist	Death
Belfast East	8 February 1940	Herbert Dixon	Ulster Unionist	Henry Peirson Harland	Ulster Unionist	Elevation to the Peerage
Queen's University of Belfast	2 November 1940	Thomas Sinclair	Ulster Unionist	Douglas Savory	Ulster Unionist	Resignation
Belfast West	9 February 1943	Alexander Browne	Ulster Unionist	Jack Beattie	NI Labour	Death
Antrim	11 February 1943	Sir Joseph McConnell, Bt	Ulster Unionist	John Dermot Campbell	Ulster Unionist	Death

Footnote

^ 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 1935". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
^ ^a ^b Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (2006). British Electoral Facts. Ashgate. p. 31.

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