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This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Northern Irish constituencies for the 58th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2019–2024). There are 18 such constituencies, nine of which are represented by Nationalists and eight by Unionists.
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland: 1 0 [nb 1] 17 67 Ulster Unionist Party: 1 2 9 54 Social Democratic and Labour Party: 2 0 [nb 2] 8 39 Traditional Unionist Voice: 1 0 1 10 People Before Profit: 0 0 1 2 Green Party Northern Ireland: 0 0 0 5 Progressive Unionist Party: 0 0 0 1 Aontú: 0 0 0 0 Northern Ireland Conservatives: 0 2 0 0 Labour Party ...
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Northern Irish constituencies for the 59th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2024–present). There are 18 such constituencies, nine of which are represented by Nationalists and eight by Unionists.
Under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, Northern Ireland was created on 3 May 1921, [3] and the seats in the area it covered were reduced in number from 30 to 13, across 10 constituencies. Under these boundaries, Antrim , Down , and Fermanagh and Tyrone each elected two MPs using the bloc voting system , and Northern Ireland had one ...
Sinn Féin became the largest Northern Ireland party in the House of Commons for the first time, following similar success in the 2022 Assembly election and 2023 local election. Sinn Féin defended their seven seats with an increased majority in each, South Down , Belfast North and especially Fermanagh and South Tyrone are less marginal than ...
Elections in Northern Ireland are held on a regular basis to local councils, the Northern Ireland Assembly and to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Northern Ireland Assembly has 90 members, elected in 18 five-member constituencies by the single transferable vote (STV) method. [ 1 ]
In 1921, the Anglo-Irish Treaty secured independence for the Irish Free State, comprising that part of Ireland not in Northern Ireland, which was to take effect on 6 November 1922. From the 1922 Westminster election, held on 15 November, only the six counties of Northern Ireland were represented in Parliament.
Once established under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, Northern Ireland, since it was an approximation of that area where those favouring remaining part of the UK were in the majority, was structured geographically in a way which guaranteed a unionist majority in the Parliament of Northern Ireland.