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