List of Northern Ireland Parliament by-elections

This is a list of by-elections to the Northern Ireland House of Commons, from its creation in 1921 until its abolition in 1972.

Date	Constituency	Incumbent			Winner
2 May 1923	Belfast West	William Twaddell style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Philip James Woods style="width: 2px; background-color: #aadfff;" data-sort-value="Independent Unionist" \|	Ind. Unionist	Death
6 November 1925	Belfast South	Philip James Woods style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Anthony Babington style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Declined seat in favour of Belfast West
25 November 1925	Armagh	Richard Best style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	John Clarke Davison style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Appointed Lord Justice of Appeal
10 November 1930	North Tyrone	William Thomas Miller style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	James Fulton Gamble style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
4 June 1934	Belfast Central	Joseph Devlin style="width: 2px; background-color: #32cd32;" data-sort-value="Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)" \|	Nationalist	Thomas Joseph Campbell style="width: 2px; background-color: #32cd32;" data-sort-value="Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)" \|	Nationalist	Death
22 March 1935	Queen's University of Belfast	Robert McNeill style="width: 2px; background-color: #aadfff;" data-sort-value="Independent Unionist" \|	Ind. Unionist	Arthur Brownlow Mitchell style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Resignation
2 April 1937	Belfast Ballynafeigh	Thomas Moles style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Frederick Thompson style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
7 May 1937	Foyle	James Joseph McCarroll style="width: 2px; background-color: #32cd32;" data-sort-value="Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)" \|	Nationalist	Patrick Maxwell style="width: 2px; background-color: #32cd32;" data-sort-value="Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)" \|	Nationalist	Death
27 May 1937	Larne	George Boyle Hanna style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Harold Claude Robinson style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Resignation
29 September 1938	Mid Armagh	John Clarke Davison style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Norman Stronge style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Resignation
5 December 1938	Queen's University of Belfast	Robert James Johnstone style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Howard Stevenson style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
27 April 1939	City of Londonderry	Edward Sullivan Murphy style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	William Lowry style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
10 November 1939	Bannside	George Charles Gillespie Young style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Malcolm Patrick style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
15 March 1941	Central Armagh	David Shillington style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	George Dougan style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
27 March 1941	North Down	James Craig style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Thomas Bailie style="width: 2px; background-color: #aadfff;" data-sort-value="Independent Unionist" \|	Ind. Unionist	Death
2 July 1941	Mid Tyrone	Hugh McAleer style="width: 2px; background-color: #32cd32;" data-sort-value="Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)" \|	Nationalist	Michael McGurk style="width: 2px; background-color: #cdffab;" data-sort-value="Independent Nationalist" \|	Independent Nationalist	Death
3 December 1941	Belfast Willowfield	Arthur Black style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Harry Midgley style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Northern Ireland Labour Party" \|	NI Labour	Resignation
2 April 1942	Belfast Falls	Richard Byrne style="width: 2px; background-color: #32cd32;" data-sort-value="Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)" \|	Nationalist	Eamon Donnelly style="width: 2px; background-color: #d1ffb2;" data-sort-value="Independent Republican (Ireland)" \|	Ind. Republican	Death
19 October 1942	Queen's University of Belfast	Arthur Brownlow Mitchell style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	William Lyle style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
2 July 1943	Queen's University of Belfast	Robert Corkey style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	John W. Renshaw style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Resignation
11 August 1943	North Tyrone	James Gamble style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Thomas Lyons style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
26 August 1943	Carrick	John Fawcett Gordon style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	John Dermot Campbell style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Resignation
13 December 1944	Queen's University of Belfast	John MacDermott style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Herbert Quin style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Appointed High Court Judge
12 April 1945	South Tyrone	Rowley Elliott style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	W. F. McCoy style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
19 April 1945	Carrick	John Dermot Campbell style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Lancelot Curran style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
19 April 1945	Larne	Harold Claude Robinson style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Walter Topping style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
15 October 1945	North Antrim	Robert Lynn style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	William McCleery style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
22 August 1946	Belfast Central	Thomas Joseph Campbell style="width: 2px; background-color: #32cd32;" data-sort-value="Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)" \|	Nationalist	Frank Hanna style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Northern Ireland Labour Party" \|	NI Labour	Resignation
7 November 1946	Bannside	Malcolm Patrick style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Terence O'Neill style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
27 June 1947	City of Londonderry	William Lowry style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	James Godfrey MacManaway style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Resignation
20 April 1948	Queen's University, Belfast	Frederick McSorley style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" \|	Independent	Samuel Irwin style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
16 August 1948	Mid Tyrone	Michael McGurk style="width: 2px; background-color: #32cd32;" data-sort-value="Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)" \|	Nationalist	Edward McCullagh style="width: 2px; background-color: #32cd32;" data-sort-value="Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)" \|	Nationalist	Death
24 October 1949	Enniskillen	Erne Ferguson style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Thomas Charles Nelson style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Resignation
15 November 1949	Queen's University, Belfast	William Lyle style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Frederick Lloyd-Dodd style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
29 November 1949	Belfast Duncairn	William Grant style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	George Boyle Hanna style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
20 January 1950	Carrick	Lancelot Curran style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Alexander Hunter style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Resignation
4 April 1950	Belfast Woodvale	John William Nixon style="width: 2px; background-color: #aadfff;" data-sort-value="Independent Unionist" \|	Ind. Unionist	Robert Harcourt style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
31 October 1950	Belfast Bloomfield	Herbert Dixon style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Daniel Dixon style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
6 December 1950	South Armagh	Malachy Conlon style="width: 2px; background-color: #32cd32;" data-sort-value="Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)" \|	Nationalist	Charles McGleenan style="width: 2px; background-color: #DDFFDD;" data-sort-value="Anti-Partition of Ireland League" \|	Anti-Partition	Death
2 February 1951	Antrim	Hugh Minford style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Nat Minford style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
18 June 1951	City of Londonderry	James Godfrey MacManaway style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Edward Warburton Jones style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Resignation
10 December 1951	South Antrim	John Milne Barbour style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Brian McConnell style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
8 May 1954	Enniskillen	Thomas Charles Nelson style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Harry West style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
15 October 1955	Central Armagh	George Dougan style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Isaac Hawthorne style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
15 November 1955	Belfast Woodvale	Robert Harcourt style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Neville Martin style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Elected Lord Mayor of Belfast
23 November 1956	Belfast Windsor	Archibald Wilson style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Herbert Kirk style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Resignation
4 December 1956	Belfast Duncairn	George Boyle Hanna style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	William Fitzsimmons style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Resignation
5 March 1959	West Down	John Edgar Bailey style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	David John Little style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
28 May 1959	Belfast Clifton	Robin Kinahan style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	William James Morgan style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Elected Lord Mayor of Belfast
5 February 1960	Larne	Walter Topping style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	William Craig style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Resignation
16 February 1960	Belfast Shankill	Henry Holmes style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Desmond Boal style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Resignation
9 July 1960	South Londonderry	Dehra Parker style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	James Chichester-Clark style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Resignation
29 November 1960	North Londonderry	Robert Moore style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Joseph Burns style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
20 April 1961	Belfast Bloomfield	Daniel Dixon style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Walter Scott style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Resignation
22 November 1961	Queen's University, Belfast	Samuel Irwin style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Sheelagh Murnaghan style="width: 2px; background-color: #DAA520;" data-sort-value="Ulster Liberal Party" \|	Ulster Liberal	Death
6 December 1962	Belfast Cromac	Joseph Morgan style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	William Kennedy style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death
9 May 1964	Iveagh	Brian Maginess style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Samuel Magowan style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Appointed County Court Judge
30 June 1964	East Tyrone	Joseph Francis Stewart style="width: 2px; background-color: #32cd32;" data-sort-value="Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)" \|	Nationalist	Austin Currie style="width: 2px; background-color: #32cd32;" data-sort-value="Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)" \|	Nationalist	Death
3 December 1964	Mid Down	John L. O. Andrews style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Basil Kelly style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Elected to Senate
19 June 1965	West Down	David John Little style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	John Dobson style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Appointed Recorder of Londonderry
23 November 1966	Queen's University, Belfast	Charles Stewart style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" \|	Independent	Robert Porter style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Resignation
25 May 1967	South Down	Joseph Connellan style="width: 2px; background-color: #32cd32;" data-sort-value="Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)" \|	Nationalist	Michael Keogh style="width: 2px; background-color: #32cd32;" data-sort-value="Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)" \|	Nationalist	Death
22 March 1968	Lisnaskea	Basil Brooke style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	John Brooke style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Resignation
16 May 1968	City of Londonderry	Edward Warburton Jones style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Albert Anderson style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Appointed High Court Judge
6 November 1968	South Antrim	Brian McConnell style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Richard Ferguson style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Resignation
16 April 1970	Bannside	Terence O'Neill style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Ian Paisley style="width: 2px; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Protestant Unionist Party" \|	Protestant Unionist	Resignation
16 April 1970	South Antrim	Richard Ferguson style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	William Beattie style="width: 2px; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Protestant Unionist Party" \|	Protestant Unionist	Resignation
12 November 1970	Belfast St Anne's	Norman Laird style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	John Laird style="width: 2px; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	Death

References

Biographies of Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons

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