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.

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