UK General Election
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General election in United Kingdom.
Only two constituencies are contested in Northern Ireland. Two
nationalists TJS Harbison and Cahir Healy (an internee) are elected in the
two-seater Fermanagh and Tyrone constituency with large majorities over their
unionist opponents. Unionist win the other eleven seats – ten of them
uncontested.
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In the only other contested constituency in NI, Derry, the independent
nationalist was defeated as most nationalists abstained as a protest against
the abolition of PR. Devlin did not stand in Belfast because of gerrymandering
– he stood in Liverpool and lost.
Bonar Law was elected prime minister in Westminster with a Conservative
majority of 87. Vincent Cavendish, 9th
Duke of Devonshire, replaced Churchill as Secretary of State for the Colonies.