Northern Ireland general election, 1929

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22 May 1929

1933 →

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

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	James Craig	Joe Devlin	Sam Kyle
Party	UUP	Nationalist	NI Labour
Leader since	7 June 1921	1918	1925
Leader's seat	North Down	Belfast Central	Belfast Oldpark (defeated)
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%

Percentage of seats gained by each of the party.

Prime Minister before election

James Craig
UUP

Elected Prime Minister

James Craig
UUP

The Northern Ireland general election, 1929 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 gain election.

Electorate: 775,307 (432,439 in contested seats); Turnout: 67.6% (292,218).

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