Northern Ireland general election, 1925

3 April 1925

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	None
Party	UUP	Nationalist	Independent Unionist
Leader since	7 June 1921	1918	N/A
Leader's seat	Down	Belfast West	N/A
Last election	40 seats (76.92%)	6 seats (11.8%)	N/A
Seats won	32	10	4
Seat change	8	4	4
Popular vote	211,662	91,452	34,716
Percentage	55.0%	23.8%	7.7%
Swing	11.9%	3.3%	7.7%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	None	Éamon de Valera
Party	NI Labour	Republican
Leader since	N/A	1917
Leader's seat	N/A	Down
Last election	0 seats (0.6%)	6 seats (20.5%)
Seats won	3	2
Seat change	3	4
Popular vote	18,114	20,615
Percentage	4.7%	5.3%
Swing	4.7%	15.2%

Percentage of seats gained by each of the party.

Prime Minister before election

James Craig
UUP

Elected Prime Minister

James Craig
UUP

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The Northern Ireland general election, 1925 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 the Proportional Representation system. It was abolished by the Ulster Unionist government during this parliament and replaced with the first-past-the-post system used in Great Britain.

Results

Northern Ireland General Election 1925
		Candidates						Votes
Party		Standing	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	UUP	40	32	0	8	- 8	61.5	55.0	211,662	-11.9
	Nationalist	11	10	4	0	+ 4	19.2	23.8	91,452	+3.3
	Independent Unionist	4	4	4	0	+ 4	7.7	9.0	34,716	+9.0
	Republican	6	2	0	4	- 4	3.8	5.3	20,615	-15.2
	NI Labour	3	3	3	0	+ 3	5.8	4.7	18,114	+4.7
	Unbought Tenants	1	1	1	0	+ 1	1.9	1.3	4,886	+1.3
	Town Tenants' Association	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.9	3,320	+0.9

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

Votes summary

Popular vote

Ulster Unionist			55.01%
Nationalist Party			23.77%
Independent Unionist			9.02%
Republican			5.36%
Labour			4.71%
Tenants Associations			2.13%

Seats summary

Parliamentary seats

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

References

Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results

Elections and referendums in Northern Ireland

NI general elections	1921 1925 1929 1933 1938 1945 1949 1953 1958 1962 1965 1969

Ad-hoc elections	1973 1975 1982 1996

Assembly elections	1998 2003 2007 2011 2016

European elections	1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014

Local elections	1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2011 2014

Referendums	1973 1975 1998 2011

UK general elections	2001 2005 2010 2015

See also: Elections in the Kingdom of Ireland Elections in Ireland as part of the UK UK elections

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