Northern Ireland general election, 1933

30 November 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	Jack Beattie
Party	UUP	Nationalist	NI Labour
Leader since	7 June 1921	1918	1929
Leader's seat	North Down	Belfast Central	Belfast Pottinger
Last election	37 seats (50.8%)	11 seats (11.7%)	1 seat (8.0%)
Seats won	36	9	2
Seat change	1	2	1
Popular vote	73,791	22,269	14,436
Percentage	43.5%	13.2%	8.5%
Swing	5.3%	1.4%	0.5%

Election results by constituency.

Prime Minister before election

James Craig
UUP

Elected Prime Minister

James Craig
UUP

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The Northern Ireland general election, 1933 was held on 30 November 1933. Like all previous elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland, it produced a large majority for the Ulster Unionist Party. 33 of the 52 seats were uncontested, the largest number in the history of the House of Commons.

Results

Northern Ireland General Election 1933
		Candidates						Votes
Party		Standing	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	UUP	41	36	0	1	- 1	69.2	43.5	73,791	-5.3
	Independent Unionist	8	3	0	0	0	5.8	21.3	36,142	+7.0
	Nationalist	10	9	0	2	- 2	17.3	13.1	22,269	+1.4
	NI Labour	3	2	1	0	+ 1	3.8	8.5	14,436	+0.5
	Independent Republican	4	1	1	0	+ 1	1.9	7.7	13,106	N/A
	Fianna Fáil	1	1	1	0	+ 1	1.9	4.4	7,404	N/A
	National League	1	0	0	0	0		1.3	2,211	0.0
	Independent	1	0	0	0	0		0.2	331	-1.0

Electorate 793,952 (250,519 in contested seats); Turnout 67.7% (169,690). The sole member elected for Fianna Fáil was the President of the Executive Council (Prime Minister) of the Irish Free State, Éamon de Valera.

Votes summary

Popular vote

Ulster Unionist			43.49%
Nationalist Party			13.12%
Independent Unionist			21.3%
Labour			8.51%
Independent Republican			7.72%
Fianna Fáil			4.36%
Independent Nationalist			1.3%
Independent			0.2%

Seats summary

Parliamentary seats

Ulster Unionist			69.23%
Nationalist Party			17.31%
Independent Unionist			5.77%
Labour			3.85%
Independent Republican			1.92%
Fianna Fáil			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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