North Down (UK Parliament constituency)

For other constituencies of the same name, see North Down (disambiguation).

North Down
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of North Down in Northern Ireland
Major settlements	Bangor, Holywood
Current constituency
Created	1950
Member of Parliament	Stephen Farry (Alliance)
1885–1922
Created from	Down
Replaced by	Down

North Down is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is Stephen Farry of the Alliance Party. Farry was elected to the position in the 2019 general election, replacing the incumbent Sylvia Hermon. Hermon had held the position since being elected to it in the 2001 general election, but chose not to contest in 2019.

Constituency profile

North Down covers the north coast of the Ards Peninsula including Bangor which has several Alliance councillors. Historically a unionist area, North Down is currently the only seat in Northern Ireland represented by a non-aligned party.

Boundaries

1885–1918: The baronies of Castlereagh Lower, Lower Ards, and Upper Ards, that part of the barony of Castlereagh Upper in the parishes of Comber and Knockbreda, and that part of the parliamentary borough of Belfast lying in County Down.

1918-1922: The Urban Districts of Bangor, Donaghadee and Newtownards, and that part of the Rural District of Newtownards not contained within the Mid Down division.

1950–1974: The Boroughs of Bangor and Newtownards, the Urban Districts of Donaghadee and Holywood, and the Rural Districts of Castlereagh, Hillsborough, and Newtownards.

1974–1983: The Boroughs of Bangor and Newtownards, the Urban Districts of Donaghadee and Holywood, the Rural District of North Down, in the Rural District of Castlereagh the district electoral divisions of Ballycultra, Craigavad, and Holywood Rural, and in the Rural District of Hillsborough the district electoral divisions of Annahilt, Ballykeel, Ballymacbrennan, Ballyskeagh, Ballyworfy, Blaris, Carryduff, Dromara, Drumbo, Glassdrumman, Hillsborough, Maze, Ouley, and Saintfield.

1983–1997: The District of North Down, and the District of Castlereagh wards of Ballyhanwood, Carrowreagh, Dundonald, Enler, Gilnahirk, and Tullycarnet.

1997–present: The District of North Down, and the District of Ards wards of Donaghadee North, Donaghadee South, and Millisle.

The county constituency was first created in 1885 from the northern part of Down. From the dissolution of Parliament in 1922, it was merged back into that constituency.

The seat was re-created in 1950 when the old two MP Down constituency was abolished as part of the move to single member seats. Originally the seat consisted of most of the northern parts of County Down, with the south included in South Down. In January 1980, the Boundary Commission's original proposals suggested significantly reducing the size of the constituency and renaming it 'Loughside' on the grounds that this would avoid confusion in the event of borough council elections being held on the same day. As a result, in 1983 the seat was radically cut down as part of an expansion of Northern Ireland's constituencies from 12 to 17, although the name remained unaltered. Significant parts of the constituency were transferred to the new Strangford constituency. In boundary changes proposed by a review in 1995, the seat exchanged territory with Strangford, losing the Dundonald area from Castlereagh and gaining a part of Ards.

The seat now contains the entirety of North Down district as well as Donaghadee and Millisle in Ards.

In 2005, the Boundary Commission published provisional recommendations for modifying the boundaries of constituencies in Northern Ireland. No changes were proposed for North Down. This proved acceptable at the public enquiries and the Assistant Commissioner also recommended no change to the constituency meaning that the constituency is to remain unchanged.

History

Bangor, County Down

1885 to 1922

The constituency was a strongly unionist area being held by the Irish Unionist Party. Neither the Nationalist Party or Sinn Féin contested the seat in 1918.

The First Dáil

Sinn Féin contested the general election of 1918 on the platform that instead of taking up any seats they won in the Imperial Parliament, they would establish a revolutionary assembly in Dublin. In republican theory, every MP elected in Ireland was a potential Deputy to this assembly. In practice, only the Sinn Féin members accepted the offer; there was no Sinn Féin or other Irish nationalist candidate in North Down in 1918.

The revolutionary First Dáil assembled on 21 January 1919 and last met on 10 May 1921. The First Dáil, according to a resolution passed on 10 May 1921, was formally dissolved on the assembling of the Second Dáil. This took place on 16 August 1921.

In 1921 Sinn Féin decided to use the UK authorised elections for the Northern Ireland House of Commons and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland as a poll for the Irish Republic's Second Dáil. The constituency was incorporated into the eight-member constituency of Down, and saw the President of Dáil Éireann, Éamon de Valera, elected there. The constituency also elected the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Sir James Craig, to the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

1950 to present

North Down is one of the most overwhelmingly unionist parts of Northern Ireland, with nationalist parties routinely getting no more than 5% of the vote, if that. In the 1955 election George Currie, the Ulster Unionist candidate, gained 96.8% of the popular vote, which he "bettered" in 1959 with some 98%. These shares of the popular votes are the highest ever achieved in a United Kingdom general election (post 1832 Reform). However it has arguably the most volatile and unpredictable politics of the entire province. Whereas elsewhere there are effectively three fundamental battles fought in elections – between the Ulster Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party to be the leading unionist party, between the Social Democratic and Labour Party and Sinn Féin to be the leading nationalist party, and between unionism and nationalism as a whole, North Down is different. The lack of any substantial nationalist vote renders the last two battles immaterial. Of Northern Ireland's five main parties, only the Ulster Unionist Party and the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland have historically had a significant organisation and support in the constituency, though the Democratic Unionist Party has recently started to gain a foothold where previously it was nearly non-existent.

In addition the constituency has seen many substantial votes for smaller party groupings and individuals. The Ulster Popular Unionist Party, the Conservative Party, the UK Unionist Party and the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition have all polled substantially in the last fifteen years, whilst in local council elections many independent candidates gain sufficient votes to be elected. The area is the heartland of numerous "one-man parties", of which the Ulster Popular Unionist Party and the UK Unionist Party are the best known but far from the only ones. There have been many examples of elected individuals changing party allegiance and often successfully defending their seats for the new party.

The constituency is the most prosperous in Northern Ireland and is widely considered to be the most similar to an English constituency. In part because of this the seat was the heartland of the Equal Citizenship campaign in the late 1980s which argued that political parties in Britain should organise and contest elections in Northern Ireland, in the hope that this would "normalise" the politics of the province. The Conservative Party established itself (having in earlier years been in alliance with the Ulster Unionist Party until a breakdown in relations in the 1970s) and to date has been relatively strongest in North Down though in recent years its vote has declined heavily from the brief surge in the elections held between 1989 and 1992.

Traditionally levels of turnout in elections are very low by Northern Ireland standards, possibly because the lack of a serious threat of a nationalist victory removes the impetus to vote common among unionists elsewhere in the province. The one significant exception to the levels of turnout was the 1998 referendum on the Good Friday Agreement where turnout reached 80%, a total not come close to since 1921.

The parliamentary constituency was original held by the Ulster Unionist Party with no serious opposition. In 1970 James Kilfedder was first elected and he proceeded to accumulate a high level of personal popularity in the constituency. In 1977 he left the Ulster Unionists in protest over their increasing support for Enoch Powell's proposed policy of integration for Northern Ireland, rather than the restoration of devolved government. Standing as an independent Unionist, Kilfedder successfully defended his seat against a UUP challenge in the 1979 general election. The following year he formed the Ulster Popular Unionist Party, with a few local councillors being elected on the label.

Kilfedder continued to hold his seat. Then in the 1987 general election he agreed an electoral pact with the Ulster Unionists and the Democratic Unionist Party to form a united opposition to the Anglo-Irish Agreement. However the local UUP candidate, Robert McCartney, was opposed to this pact and refused to withdraw. He was expelled from the UUP and so stood as a "Real Unionist" on a platform of complete integration for the province. Kilfedder retained the seat but with a reduced majority. As part of his platform for integration, McCartney had called for the major UK parties to organise and stand in the province and his result gave impetus to this campaign.

The Conservative Party did very well in the 1989 local elections for North Down Borough Council when they became the largest party. They stood candidates in several Northern Ireland constituencies in the 1992 general election, but their strongest prospect was expected to be North Down. Kilfedder by this stage was taking the Conservative whip at Westminster and so was aggrieved by this (and subsequently given a knighthood). In the event the result was similar to 1987, with the Conservatives getting a similar vote to McCartney.

Kilfedder died in 1995 and his loose Ulster Popular Unionist Party faded away even before the resulting by-election. By this time the Northern Ireland Conservatives had collapsed heavily and so there was much speculation about how the by-election would go. The Ulster Unionist Party were hopeful that they could retake the seat, but McCartney also stood, this time as a "UK Unionist" with the support of the Democratic Unionist Party. No candidate stood for the Popular Unionists or any nationalist party. There was a poor turnout in which McCartney won, with the Conservative vote collapsing from 32% to 2.1%.

McCartney further established his UK Unionist Party and sought to challenge the existing unionist parties by offering a less sectarian alternative. He held his seat in the 1997 election and was also elected to both the Northern Ireland Peace Forum in 1996 and the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998, though on each occasion he was the only UK Unionist elected from North Down. In the 1998 Assembly election the Ulster Unionists had their strongest result in the province and there was much speculation that they could unseat McCartney at the next general election.

A rather public row erupted over the selection of the UUP's candidate. Initially the local assembly member Peter Weir was selected, but his opposition to the Good Friday Agreement and David Trimble's leadership became very prominent and a running source of embarrassment to the party. Then Weir was deselected and the new candidate selected, Sylvia Hermon, was supportive of both Trimble and the Agreement. Hermon, aided by the Alliance standing aside, won the seat.

Weir remained as an Assembly member but subsequently defected to the Democratic Unionist Party. In the 2003 Assembly election Weir successfully defended his seat for the DUP, who also gained another MLA from the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition. In the 2005 general election the party battle was altered somewhat by the DUP running Weir, the Alliance putting up a candidate and McCartney, after some speculation, deciding not to stand but to instead endorse Weir. In a strong contest Hermon retained the seat, to become the only Ulster Unionist MP at the time, though she later left that party. She retained her seat at the 2010 election as an independent with the second-biggest margin of any Northern Irish MP (behind Gerry Adams in Belfast West) and was re-elected at the 2015 and 2017 elections, although her majority was considerably reduced.

Hermon retired at the 2019 election. The bulk of her support shifted to the Alliance, and a split unionist vote allowed Alliance candidate Stephen Farry to capture the seat, becoming the Alliance's only MP.

Members of Parliament

The Member of Parliament since the 2019 general election is Stephen Farry of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, who won the seat after the retirement of Sylvia Hermon.

Election	Member	Party
1885	Thomas Waring		Conservative
1891			Irish Unionist
1898	John Blakiston-Houston		Irish Unionist
1900	Thomas Lorimer Corbett		Irish Unionist
1910	William Mitchell-Thomson		Irish Unionist
1918	Thomas Watters Brown		Irish Unionist
February 1922	Henry Wilson		UUP
July 1922	John Simms		UUP
1922	Constituency abolished
1950	Constituency recreated
	Walter Smiles		UUP
1953	Patricia Ford		UUP
1955	George Currie		UUP
1970	James Kilfedder		UUP
1977			Ind. Unionist
1980			UPUP
1995	Robert McCartney		UK Unionist
2001	Sylvia Hermon		UUP
2010			Independent
2019	Stephen Farry		Alliance

Elections

Westminster Election ResultsNorth Down - 1983-2019

Elections in the 2020s

Next general election: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Alliance	Stephen Farry
	UUP	Tim Collins
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors
	gain from		Swing

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Alliance	Stephen Farry	18,358	45.2	+35.9
	DUP	Alex Easton	15,390	37.9	―0.1
	UUP	Alan Chambers	4,936	12.1	New
	NI Conservatives	Matthew Robinson	1,959	4.8	+2.4
Majority			2,968	7.3	N/A
Turnout			40,643	60.6	―0.4
Registered electors			67,099
	Alliance gain from Independent

General election 2017: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Lady Hermon	16,148	41.1	―8.1
	DUP	Alex Easton	14,940	38.0	+14.4
	Alliance	Andrew Muir	3,639	9.3	+0.7
	Green (NI)	Steven Agnew	2,549	6.5	+1.1
	NI Conservatives	Frank Shivers	941	2.4	―2.0
	Sinn Féin	Thérèse McCartney	531	1.4	+0.6
	SDLP	Caoímhe McNeill	400	1.0	0.0
	Independent	Gavan Reynolds	37	0.1	New
Majority			1,208	3.1	―22.5
Turnout			39,268	61.0	+5.0
Registered electors			64,334
	Independent hold		Swing	-11.3

General election 2015: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Lady Hermon	17,689	49.2	―14.1
	DUP	Alex Easton	8,487	23.6	New
	Alliance	Andrew Muir	3,086	8.6	+3.0
	Green (NI)	Steven Agnew	1,958	5.4	+2.3
	NI Conservatives	Mark Brotherston	1,593	4.4	New
	UKIP	Jonny Lavery	1,482	4.1	New
	TUV	William Cudworth	686	1.9	―3.0
	SDLP	Tom Woolley	355	1.0	―1.0
	CISTA	Glenn Donnelly	338	0.9	New
	Sinn Féin	Therese McCartney	273	0.8	+0.1
Majority			9,202	25.6	―17.3
Turnout			35,947	56.0	+0.8
Registered electors			64,207
	Independent hold		Swing	-18.9

General election 2010: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Lady Hermon	21,181	63.3	+13.9
	UCU-NF	Ian Parsley	6,817	20.4	―30.0
	Alliance	Stephen Farry	1,876	5.6	―2.0
	TUV	Kaye Kilpatrick	1,634	4.9	New
	Green (NI)	Steven Agnew	1,043	3.1	New
	SDLP	Liam Logan	680	2.0	―1.1
	Sinn Féin	Vincent Parker	250	0.7	+0.1
Majority			14,364	42.9	N/A
Turnout			33.481	55.2	+1.2
Registered electors			60,698
	Independent gain from UUP		Swing	+46.7

Sylvia Hermon resigned the UUP whip in 2010, in protest against that party's electoral pact with the NI Conservatives to form UCU-NF.

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Lady Hermon	16,268	50.4	―5.6
	DUP	Peter Weir	11,324	35.1	New
	Alliance	David Alderdice	2,451	7.6	New
	SDLP	Liam Logan	1,009	3.1	―0.3
	NI Conservatives	Julian Robertson	822	2.5	+0.3
	Independent	Chris Carter	211	0.7	―0.5
	Sinn Féin	Janet McCrory	205	0.6	―0.2
Majority			4,944	15.3	―4.4
Turnout			32,290	54.0	―4.8
Registered electors			59,358
	UUP hold		Swing	―20.3

General election 2001: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Lady Hermon	20,833	56.0	+24.9
	UK Unionist	Bob McCartney	13,509	36.3	+1.2
	SDLP	Marietta Farrell	1,275	3.4	―1.0
	NI Conservatives	Julian Robertson	815	2.2	―2.8
	Independent	Chris Carter	444	1.2	New
	Sinn Féin	Eamonn McConvey	313	0.8	New
Majority			7,324	19.7	N/A
Turnout			37,189	58.8	+0.9
Registered electors			63,212
	UUP gain from UK Unionist		Swing	+9.9

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UK Unionist	Bob McCartney	12,817	35.1	N/A
	UUP	Alan McFarland	11,368	31.1	N/A
	Alliance	Oliver Napier	7,554	20.7	+6.0
	NI Conservatives	Leonard Fee	1,810	5.0	―27.0
	SDLP	Marietta Farrell	1,602	4.4	New
	NI Women's Coalition	Jane Morrice	1,240	3.4	New
	Natural Law	Tom Mullins	108	0.3	―0.3
	Northern Ireland Party	Robert Mooney	57	0.2	New
Majority			1,449	4.0	N/A
Turnout			36,556	57.9	―7.6
Registered electors			63,101
	UK Unionist hold		Swing

The figures and result are compared to the 1992 general election, not the 1995 by-election.

1995 North Down by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UK Unionist	Bob McCartney	10,124	37.0	New
	UUP	Alan McFarland	7,232	26.4	New
	Alliance	Oliver Napier	6,970	25.4	+10.7
	Ind. Unionist	Alan Chambers	2,170	7.9	New
	NI Conservatives	Stuart Sexton	583	2.1	―29.9
	Free Para Lee Clegg Now	Michael Brooks	108	0.4	New
	Independent Voice	Christopher Carter	101	0.4	New
	Natural Law	James Anderson	100	0.4	―0.2
Majority			2,892	10.6	N/A
Turnout			27,388	38.6	―26.9
Registered electors			70,872
	UK Unionist gain from UPUP		Swing

General election 1992: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UPUP	James Kilfedder	19,305	42.9	―2.2
	NI Conservatives	Laurence Kennedy	14,371	32.0	New
	Alliance	Addie Morrow	6,611	14.7	―4.7
	DUP	Denny Vitty	4,414	9.8	New
	Natural Law	Andrew Wilmot	255	0.6	New
Majority			4,934	10.9	+1.2
Turnout			44,956	65.5	+2.7
Registered electors			68,662
	UPUP hold		Swing

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1987: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UPUP	James Kilfedder	18,420	45.1	―11.0
	Real Unionist	Bob McCartney	14,467	35.4	New
	Alliance	John Cushnahan	7,932	19.4	―2.7
Majority			3,953	9.7	―24.3
Turnout			40,819	62.8	―3.4
Registered electors			65,018
	UPUP hold		Swing

By-election 1986: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UPUP	James Kilfedder	30,793	79.2	+23.1
	Alliance	John Cushnahan	8,066	20.8	―1.3
Majority			22,727	58.4	+24.4
Turnout			38,859	62.8	―3.4
Registered electors			64,276
	UPUP hold		Swing

General election 1983: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UPUP	James Kilfedder	22,861	56.1	―3.5
	Alliance	John Cushnahan	9,015	22.1	+0.5
	UUP	Bob McCartney	8,261	20.3	+1.4
	SDLP	Cathal O'Baioll	645	1.6	New
Majority			13,846	34.0	―4.0
Turnout			40,782	66.2	+4.0
Registered electors			61,519
	UPUP gain from Ind. Unionist		Swing

In 1980 Kilfedder formed the small Ulster Popular Unionist Party and contested all subsequent elections under this label.

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1979: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ind. Unionist	James Kilfedder	36,989	59.6	−12.4
	Alliance	Keith Jones	13,364	21.6	+3.1
	UUP	Clifford Smyth	11,728	18.9	―53.1
Majority			23,625	38.0	N/A
Turnout			62,081	62.2	+1.3
Registered electors			99,861
	Ind. Unionist gain from UUP		Swing

Kilfedder left the Ulster Unionists in 1977, in opposition to Enoch Powell's proposals for integration instead of devolution for Northern Ireland, and defended his seat as an Independent Ulster Unionist. The new Ulster Unionist candidate was Clifford Smyth, who had previously been a Democratic Unionist Party assembly member in North Antrim.

General election October 1974: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	James Kilfedder	40,996	72.0	+11.9
	Alliance	Keith Jones	9,973	17.5	New
	Unionist Party NI	William Brownlow	6,037	10.6	New
Majority			31,023	54.5	+28.5
Turnout			57,006	60.9	―5.5
Registered electors			93,604
	UUP hold		Swing

General election February 1974: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	James Kilfedder	38,169	61.1	―7.9
	Pro-Assembly Unionist	Roy Bradford	21,943	35.1	New
	SDLP	Dermot Curran	2,376	3.8	New
Majority			16,226	26.0	―25.3
Turnout			62,488	66.4	―0.4
Registered electors			94,069
	UUP hold		Swing

General election 1970: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	James Kilfedder	55,679	69.0	―9.5
	NI Labour	Kenneth Young	14,246	17.7	New
	Ind. Unionist	Robert Samuel Nixon	6,408	7.9	New
	Independent	Ritchie McGladdery	3,321	4.1	New
	Ulster Liberal	Hamilton Simmons-Gooding	1,076	1.3	―20.2
Majority			41,433	51.3	―5.7
Turnout			80,730	66.8	+11.9
Registered electors			121,196
	UUP hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1966: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	George Currie	38,706	78.5	+5.0
	Ulster Liberal	Sheelagh Murnaghan	10,582	21.5	+15.3
Majority			28,124	57.0	+2.4
Turnout			49,288	48.9	―14.2
Registered electors			100,775
	UUP hold		Swing

General election 1964: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	George Currie	45,091	73.5	―24.5
	NI Labour	Edward Bell	11,571	18.9	New
	Ulster Liberal	Albert McElroy	3,797	6.2	New
	Ind. Republican	Paddy McGrattan	855	1.4	New
Majority			33,520	54.6	―41.4
Turnout			61,314	63.1	+4.2
Registered electors			97,151
	UUP hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1959: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	George Currie	51,773	98.0	+1.1
	Sinn Féin	Joseph Campbell	1,039	2.0	―1.2
Majority			50,734	96.0	+2.3
Turnout			52,812	58.9	―2.2
Registered electors			89,886
	UUP hold		Swing	+1.1

General election 1955: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	George Currie	50,315	96.9	+15.5
	Sinn Féin	Joseph Campbell	1,637	3.2	New
Majority			48,678	93.7	+30.9
Turnout			51,952	61.1	―4.6
Registered electors			84,968
	UUP hold		Swing

1953 North Down by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Patricia Ford	Unopposed
Registered electors
	UUP hold

General election 1951: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Walter Smiles	43,285	81.4	+2.0
	NI Labour	Albert McElroy	9,914	18.6	―2.0
Majority			33,371	62.8	+4.0
Turnout			53,199	65.7	―2.4
Registered electors			80,921
	UUP hold		Swing

General election 1950: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Walter Smiles	41,810	79.4	N/A
	NI Labour	Albert McElroy	10,836	20.6	New
Majority			30,974	58.8	N/A
Turnout			52,646	68.1	N/A
Registered electors			77,316
	UUP win (new seat)

Elections in the 1920s

July 1922 North Down by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	John Simms	Unopposed
Registered electors
	UUP hold

February 1922 North Down by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Henry Wilson	Unopposed
Registered electors
	UUP hold

1921 North Down by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Thomas Watters Brown	Unopposed
Registered electors
	UUP hold

Elections in the 1910s

1918 general election: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Unionist	Thomas Watters Brown	9,200	81.0	N/A
	Ind. Unionist	John Alexander Davidson	2,153	19.0	New
Majority			7,047	62.0	N/A
Turnout			11,353	61.7	N/A
Registered electors			18,399
	Irish Unionist hold		Swing	N/A

December 1910 general election: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Unionist	William Mitchell-Thomson	Unopposed
Registered electors
	Irish Unionist hold

1910 North Down by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Unionist	William Mitchell-Thomson	Unopposed
Registered electors
	Irish Unionist hold

January 1910 general election: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Unionist	Thomas Lorimer Corbett	Unopposed
Registered electors
	Irish Unionist hold

Elections in the 1900s

1906 general election: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Unionist	Thomas Lorimer Corbett	4,878	58.2	0.0
	Russellite Unionist	Alexander Annan Adams	2,603	34.8	New
Majority			2,275	30.4	+14.0
Turnout			7,481	78.1	0.0
Registered electors			9,652
	Irish Unionist hold		Swing	N/A

1900 general election: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Unionist	Thomas Lorimer Corbett	4,493	58.2	N/A
	Irish Unionist	Robert Sharman-Crawford	3,230	41.8	N/A
Majority			1,263	16.4	N/A
Turnout			7,723	78.1	N/A
Registered electors			9,886
	Irish Unionist hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1890s

1898 North Down by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Unionist	John Blakiston-Houston	3,381	52.1	N/A
	Irish Unionist	Thomas Corbett	3,107	47.9	N/A
Majority			274	4.2	N/A
Turnout			6,488	66.9	N/A
Registered electors			9,702
	Irish Unionist hold		Swing	N/A

1895 general election: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Unionist	Thomas Waring	Unopposed
Registered electors
	Irish Unionist hold

1892 general election: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Unionist	Thomas Waring	Unopposed
Registered electors
	Irish Unionist hold

Elections in the 1880s

1886 general election: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Unionist	Thomas Waring	4,959	83.7	+23.4
	Irish Parliamentary	Richard McNabb	964	16.3	New
Majority			3,995	67.4	+46.8
Turnout			5,923	63.8	―13.3
Registered electors			9,277
	Irish Unionist hold		Swing

1885 general election: North Down

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Irish Conservative	Thomas Waring	4,315	60.3
	Liberal	John Shaw Brown	2,841	39.7
Majority			1,474	20.6
Turnout			7,156	77.1
Registered electors			9,277
	Irish Conservative win (new seat)

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies in Northern Ireland

Bibliography

• Guardian Unlimited Politics (Election results from 1992 to the present)
• http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ (Election results from 1951 to the present)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 3)
• Walker, Brian M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.
• Stenton, M.; Lees, S., eds. (1978). Who's Who of British members of parliament: Volume II 1886–1918. The Harvester Press.
• Stenton, M.; Lees, S., eds. (1979). 'Who's Who of British members of parliament: Volume III 1919–1945. The Harvester Press.
• F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950 – 1970
• The Liberal Year Book For 1917, Liberal Publication Department
• The Constitutional Year Book For 1912, Conservative Central Office
• The Constitutional Year Book For 1894, Conservative Central Office

External links

• Politics Resources (Election results from 1922 onwards)
• Electoral Calculus (Election results from 1955 onwards)
• 2017 Election House Of Commons Library 2017 Election report
• A Vision Of Britain Through Time (Constituency elector numbers)
• UK Constituency Maps
• BBC Vote 2001
• BBC Election 2005
• http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0
• http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/en.toc.dail.html