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Foyle (Northern Ireland Parliament Constituency)
Foyle was a single member constituency in the Parliament of Northern Ireland. It was created in 1929 as one of the five single-member constituencies replacing the former five-member Londonderry constituency. The constituency continued in existence until the Parliament was temporarily suspended in 1972, and then formally abolished in 1973. The seat was held continuously by nationalist candidates and never even contested by unionists, although labour movement candidates sometimes polled well. Members of Parliament *1929 – 1937: James Joseph McCarroll, Nationalist Party *1937 – 1953: Patrick Maxwell, Nationalist Party *1953 – 1969: Eddie McAteer, Nationalist Party *1969 – 1972: John Hume, Independent Nationalist (1969–70); Social Democratic and Labour Party (1970–72) Election results At the 1929 Northern Ireland general election, James Joseph McCarroll was elected unopposed. At the 1937 Foyle by-election and the 1938 Northern Ireland general ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Ireland Parliament Constituencies
The Northern Ireland House of Commons existed from 1921 to 1973 as the lower House of the devolved legislature of the part of the United Kingdom called Northern Ireland. As in the UK Parliament the constituencies were classified as borough, county or university constituencies. In 1921–29 the 52 provincial Members of Parliament were elected using proportional representation by the single transferable vote in multi member constituencies. The constituencies which returned one or two members to the UK Parliament, between 1922 and 1950, were used for Northern Ireland devolved elections in the 1921–29 period. Between 1929 and 1969 there were 48 single member constituencies, using the first past the post method of election. The non-territorial University constituency continued to return 4 members using the single transferable vote. For the 1969 election 4 new territorial constituencies were created to replace the University seats. The 52 constituencies ceased to exist after th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democratic And Labour Party
The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) ( ga, Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre) is a social-democratic and Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland. The SDLP currently has eight members in the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLAs) and two Members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The SDLP party platform advocates Irish reunification and further devolution of powers while Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom. During the Troubles, the SDLP was the most popular Irish nationalist party in Northern Ireland, but since the Provisional IRA ceasefire in 1994, it has lost ground to the republican party Sinn Féin, which in 2001 became the more popular of the two parties for the first time. Established during the Troubles, a significant difference between the two parties was the SDLP's rejection of violence, in contrast to Sinn Féin's then-support for (and organisational ties to) the Provisional IRA and physica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Northern Ireland General Election
The 1969 Northern Ireland general election was held on Monday 24 February 1969. It was the last election to the Parliament of Northern Ireland before its abolition by the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973. Unlike previous elections that produced a large unambiguous majority for the Ulster Unionist Party, this one gave more complex results. The Ulster Unionists were divided over a variety of reforms introduced by Prime Minister Terence O'Neill and this division spilled over into the election with official Ulster Unionist candidates standing either in support of or opposition to O'Neill and a number of independent pro O'Neill Unionists standing against opposing candidates. The results left O'Neill without a clear majority for his reforms and he resigned not long afterwards. This was the first (and only) election since the 1929 general election to see changes to the constituencies. The Queen's University of Belfast seat was abolished and four new constituencies were created ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1965 Northern Ireland General Election
The 1965 Northern Ireland general election was held on 25 November 1965. Like all previous elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland, it produced a large majority for the Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. The party was founded in 1905, emerging from the Irish Unionist Alliance in Ulster. Under Edward Carson, it led unionist opposition to the Irish Home Rule m .... This was the last election in Northern Ireland in which one party won a majority of the vote. The Ulster Unionists increased their vote share largely due to a reduction in the number of uncontested seats, but also picked up two additional seats. Similarly, the Nationalist vote share decreased largely due to more of the seats in which they stood candidates being contested. Results ''All parties shown. The only independent candidate was elected unopposed.'' ''Electorate: 907,667 (563,252 in contested seats); Turnout: 57 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Northern Ireland General Election ...
The 1962 Northern Ireland general election was held on 31 May 1962. While the Ulster Unionist Party lost three seats, they retained a large majority as in all previous elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland. Results ''All parties shown.Electorate: 903,596 (458,838 in contested seats); Turnout: 66.0% (302,681).'' Votes summary Seats summary See also * List of members of the 10th House of Commons of Northern Ireland ReferencesNorthern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results {{Northern Ireland elections 1962 Northern Ireland general election Northern Ireland general election General election A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen McGonagle
Stephen McGonagle (17 November 1914 – 4 March 2002) was a Northern Irish and Irish trade unionist. Born in Derry, Ireland, McGonagle worked as a plumber.Andrew Finlay, ''Saothar'', Vol. 27, pp.10-12, Irish Labour History Society He joined the Derry Labour Party, a small anti-partitionist grouping, but resigned in 1946 in protest at its alliance with the Nationalist Party, instead joining the Northern Ireland Labour Party. However, this party became increasingly unionist in outlook, so in 1949 he resigned to join the Irish Labour Party. Active in the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers, and became secretary of its Derry branch in 1949. In 1952, he persuaded the majority of its members - around 4,000 mostly female workers - to break away and form the Clothing Workers' Union, which soon merged with the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, and in 1954 McGonagle became secretary of its Derry branch. McGonagle stood as an independent Labour candidate in Foy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 Northern Ireland General Election
The 1958 Northern Ireland general election was called on 27 February by 1st Viscount Brookeborough to be held on 20 March 1958. Like all previous elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland, it produced a large majority for the Ulster Unionist Party. The Northern Ireland Labour Party returned to the Commons after being wiped out in the 1949 election. Campaign Announcing the election, Viscount Brookeborough remarked that the election would be on the Border issue once more, noting that this was the ninth election on the same issue. Unemployment was also an issue in the election with 50,000 people out of work in the province in that year. Results ''Electorate: 891,064 (359,816 in contested seats); Turnout: 67.1% (241,501).'' Votes summary Seats summary See also * List of members of the 9th House of Commons of Northern Ireland References Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results 1958 Northern Ireland general election Northern Ireland gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Northern Ireland General Election
The 1953 Northern Ireland general election was held on 22 October 1953. Like all previous elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland, it produced a large majority for the Ulster Unionist Party. Results ''All parties shown. Electorate 888,352 (428,216 in contested seats); Turnout 60.2% (257,924).'' Votes summary Seats summary See also *MPs elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1953 ReferencesNorthern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results 1953 elections in the United Kingdom 1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugosl ... October 1953 events in the United Kingdom 1953 elections in Northern Ireland {{NorthernIreland-election-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 Northern Ireland General Election
The 1949 Northern Ireland general election was held on 19 February 1949. The election became known as the Chapel-gate election because collections were held at churches in the Republic of Ireland to support the Nationalist Party campaign. The election was held just after the Republic of Ireland's declaration of a republic. The Unionists were able to use their majority in the Parliament of Northern Ireland to schedule the election at a time when many Protestants felt uneasy about development south of the border and as a result might be more likely to vote Unionist than for Labour candidates. This appears to have been borne out in the collapse of the Labour vote. Results ''All parties shown. The only Socialist Republican Party candidate was elected unopposed. Electorate 846,719 (477,354 in contested seats); Turnout 79.3% (378,458).'' Votes summary Seats summary ReferencesNorthern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results See also * MPs elected in the Northe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 Northern Ireland General Election
The 1945 Northern Ireland general election was held on 14 June 1945. The election saw significant losses for the Ulster Unionist Party, though they retained their majority. Mirroring the result across the rest of the UK in the 1945 UK general election, candidates standing on behalf of the various Labour parties won a significantly higher vote share of 30%,19% for the Northern Irish Labour Party, 8% for the Commonwealth Labour Party, 3% for Independent Labour candidates and 1% for the Federation of Labour but this translated into just two new MPs due to the first-past-the-post electoral system. Results ''Electorate: 845,964 (509,098 in contested seats); Turnout: 70.3% (357,882).'' Votes summary Seats summary Footnotes See also *1945 United Kingdom general election The 1945 United Kingdom general election was a national election held on 5 July 1945, but polling in some constituencies was delayed by some days, and the counting of votes was delaye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1938 Northern Ireland General Election
The 1938 Northern Ireland general election was held on 9 February 1938. Like all previous elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland, it produced a large majority for the Ulster Unionist Party. The newly-formed Ulster Progressive Unionist Association came second in vote share, but won no seats. Results ''Electorate: 825,101 (464,860 in contested seats); Turnout: 71.1% (330,355).'' Seat changes Votes summary Seats summary ReferencesNorthern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results {{Northern Ireland elections Northern Ireland general election 1938 Events January * January 1 ** The Constitution of Estonia#Third Constitution (de facto 1938–1940, de jure 1938–1992), new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the a ... Northern Ireland general election 1938 elections in Northern Ireland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Foyle By-election
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