On 29 October 2024, The 1924 United Kingdom general election was held in Northern Ireland to elect all 615 members of the House of Commons, with 13 seats being in Northern Ireland. There were ten constituencies, seven single-seat constituencies with elected by first-past-the-post voting and three two-seat constituencies with MPs elected by bloc voting.
It was the third general election to be held in less than two years. Parliament was dissolved on 9 October. Following the decision to withdraw the prosecution of Communist John Ross Campbell under the Incitement to Mutiny Act 1797 by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald on 13 August 1924, a motion was passed against the government on 8 October 1924. Despite not being framed as such, this was regarded by the Government as a loss of a motion of no confidence and caused the dissolution of Parliament on 9 October 1924 with new elections being called.
It was the first in which party leaders would give political broadcasts over radio during an general election campaign.
Results The Nationalist Party did not contest this election. The nationalist interest was represented in the election by Sinn Féin, but they failed to win any seats, and the two seats which had been held by the Nationalist Party were won by the Ulster Unionists, so that all MPs in the region were from the same party. Three Ulster Unionists were elected unopposed.
In the election as a whole, the Conservative Party, which included the Ulster Unionists, returned to government with 412 of the 615 seats, and Stanley Baldwin was re-appointed as Prime Minister.
Votes in constituencies using the bloc voting system are counted as 0.5 each, as each voter had one vote per seat.
MPs elected Constituency Party MPAntrimUlster UnionistCharles CraigUlster UnionistHugh O'NeillArmaghUlster UnionistWilliam AllenBelfast EastUlster UnionistHerbert DixonBelfast NorthUlster UnionistThomas McConnellBelfast SouthUlster UnionistThomas MolesBelfast WestUlster UnionistRobert LynnDownUlster UnionistDavid ReidUlster UnionistJohn SimmsFermanagh and TyroneUlster UnionistCharles FallsUlster UnionistJames PringleLondonderryUlster UnionistMalcolm MacnaghtenQueen's University of BelfastUlster UnionistThomas Sinclair
By-election By-election Date Incumbent Party Winner Party CauseLondonderry29 January 1929Malcolm Macnaghten Ronald Ross Appointment to High Court of Northern Ireland
See also 1924 United Kingdom general election in England 1924 United Kingdom general election in Scotland 1924 United Kingdom general election in Wales
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