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The1992 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 9 April with 17 MPs elected in single-seat constituencies usingfirst-past-the-post as part of the widergeneral election in the United Kingdom. 1,124,900 people were eligible to vote, up 34,511 from the 1987 general election. 70.02% of eligible voters turned out, down 2.6 percentage points from the last general election.[1]
TheConservative Party, now led byJohn Major asprime minister, won another term in government. In Northern Ireland, the only change was between the nationalist parties, with Sinn Féin losing its seat in Belfast West to the SDLP. The SDLP's four seats was and still is its best-ever result.
| Party | Seats | Aggregate Votes | |||||||
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| Total | Gains | Losses | Net +/- | Of all (%) | Total | Of all (%) | Difference | ||
| UUP | 9 | 0 | 0 |  | 52.9 | 271,049 | 34.5 |  2.3 | |
| SDLP | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 23.5 | 184,445 | 23.5 | 2.4 | |
| DUP | 3 | 0 | 0 | | 17.6 | 103,039 | 13.1 | 1.4 | |
| UPUP | 1 | 0 | 0 | | 5.9 | 19,305 | 2.5 | | |
| Sinn Féin | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 78,291 | 10.0 | 1.5 | |
| Alliance | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0.0 | 68,665 | 8.7 | 1.3 | |
| NI Conservatives | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0.0 | 44,608 | 5.7 | New | |
| Workers' Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0.0 | 4,359 | 0.5 | 2.1 | |
| Natural Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0.0 | 2,147 | 0.2 | New | |
| Democratic Left | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0.0 | 2,133 | 0.2 | New | |
| Labour and Trade Union | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0.0 | 1,264 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0.0 | 5,788 | 0.8 | N/A | |
| Total | 17 | 785,093 | 70.0 | 2.6 | |||||
| Constituency | Date | Incumbent | Party | Winner | Party | Cause | ||
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| North Down | 15 June 1995[4] | Jim Kilfedder | UPUP | Robert McCartney | UK Unionist | Death | ||
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