1925 Northern Ireland general election

Template:Short description Template:EngvarB Template:Politics of Northern Ireland 1921-72 The 1925 Northern Ireland general election was held on 3 April 1925. It was the second election to the Parliament of Northern Ireland. It saw significant losses for the Ulster Unionist Party, although they maintained their large majority. This was the last election for the Stormont parliament conducted using Single transferable voting, a form of Proportional Representation. Fifty-two members were elected in ten districts, which each elected between four and eight members.Template:Efn The Ulster Unionist government abolished proportional representation during this parliament and replaced it with the first-past-the-post system used in Great Britain.

Results

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UUP	Nationalist	IU	Lab	R

1925 Northern Ireland general election
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Party		Candidates						Votes
		Stood	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
		40	32Template:Efn	0	8	-8	61.5	55.0	211,662	-11.9
		11	10Template:Efn	4	0	+4	19.2	23.8	91,452	+12.0
		4	4	4	0	+4	7.7	9.0	34,716	N/A
		6	2Template:Efn	0	4	-4	3.8	5.3	20,615	-15.2
		3	3	3	0	+3	5.8	4.7	18,114	+4.1
		1	1	1	0	+1	1.9	1.3	4,886	N/A
	Town Tenants' Association	1	0	0	0	Template:Nochange	0.0	0.9	3,320	N/A

Electorate 611,683 (512,264 in contested seats); Turnout: 75.1% (384,745).

In Down (eight seats) and Queen's University of Belfast (four seats), no actual polling took place as all candidates were elected unopposed: 10 Ulster Unionist, 1 Nationalist and 1 Republican.

Votes summary

Popular vote Ulster Unionist   55.01% Nationalist Party   23.77% Independent Unionist   9.02% Republican   5.36% Labour   4.71% Unbought Tenants   1.27% Tenants Associations   0.86%

Seats summary

Parliamentary seats Ulster Unionist   61.54% Nationalist Party   19.23% Independent Unionist   7.69% Labour   5.77% Republican   3.85% Unbought Tenants   1.92%

References

• Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results