Northern Ireland general election, 1938

9 February 1938

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	Thomas Campbell	Harry Midgley (defeated)
Party	UUP	Nationalist	NI Labour
Leader since	7 June 1921	18 January 1934	1933
Leader's seat	North Down	Belfast Central	Belfast Dock
Last election	36 seats (43.5%)	9 seats (13.2%)	2 seats (8.5%)
Seats won	39	8	1
Seat change	3	1	1
Popular vote	187,684	16,167	18,775
Percentage	56.8%	4.9%	5.7%
Swing	13.3%	2.8%	2.8%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	William McConnell Wilton	William Stewart
Party	Ind. Unionist Association	Progressive Unionist
Leader since	4 October 1937	1938
Leader's seat	Belfast Clifton (not elected)	Belfast Cromac (not elected)
Last election	N/A	N/A
Seats won	1	0
Seat change	1	0
Popular vote	28,459	41,028
Percentage	8.6%	12.4%
Swing	8.6%	12/4%

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, 1938 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.

Results

Northern Ireland General Election 1938
		Candidates						Votes
Party		Standing	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	№	Net %
	UUP	43	39	3	0	+ 3	75	56.8	187,684	+13.3
	Progressive Unionist	10	0	0	0	0		12.4	41,028	N/A
	Ind. Unionist Association	6	1	1	0	+ 1	1.9	8.6	28,459	N/A
	Independent Unionist	5	2	1	2	- 1	3.8	6.8	22,354	-14.5
	NI Labour	7	1	1	2	- 1	1.9	5.7	18,775	-2.8
	Nationalist	9	8	0	1	- 1	15.4	4.9	16,167	-2.8
	Independent	3	0	0	0	0		2.2	7,482	+2.0
	Independent Labour	1	1	1	0	+ 1	1.9	1.7	5,480	N/A
	Independent Progressive Unionist	1	0	0	0	0		0.9	2,926	N/A

Electorate: 825,101 (464,860 in contested seats); Turnout: 71.1% (330,355).

Popular vote

Ulster Unionist			56.81%
Progressive Unionist			12.42%
Nationalist Party			4.89%
Independent Unionist			6.77%
Labour			5.68%
Independent Unionist Association			8.61%
Independent Labour			1.66%
Independent Progressive Unionist			0.89%
Independent			2.26%

Parliamentary seats

Ulster Unionist			75%
Nationalist Party			15.38%
Independent Unionist			3.85%
Labour			1.92%
Independent Unionist Association			1.92%
Independent Labour			1.92%

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	1924 1946 1967 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2011 2014

Referendums	1973 1998

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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