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The1931 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 27 October as part of the widergeneral election. There were ten constituencies, seven single-seat constituencies with MPs elected byFPTP and three two-seat constituencies with MPs elected bybloc voting.
This election saw no change in the distribution of seats from Northern Ireland.
In the election as a whole, aNational Government which had been formed before the election was returned withRamsay MacDonald ofNational Labour asPrime Minister. Also in the government were theConservative Party, which included the Ulster Unionists, and theLiberal Party. Nine of the eleven Ulster Unionist MPs were elected unopposed.
| 1931 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland[1][2] | |||||||||||||||
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| Party | Candidates | Votes | |||||||||||||
| Stood | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | |||||||
| UUP | 13 | 11[a] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 84.6 | 56.0 | 104,555 | -12.0 | ||||||
| Nationalist | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.4 | 38.9 | 72,633 | +32.3 | ||||||
| NI Labour | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 5.0 | 9,410 | +5.0 | ||||||
| Liberal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | -16.8 | ||||||
| Ind. Unionist | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | -6.7 | ||||||
Votes in constituencies using the bloc voting system are counted as 0.5 each, as each voter had one vote per seat.
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