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1925 Northern Ireland general election
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All 52 seats to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland ; 27 seats were needed for a majority
	Results of the 1925 Northern Ireland General Election.
Prime Minister before election; James Craig; Ulster Unionist	Prime Minister after election ; James Craig; Ulster Unionist

The 1925 Northern Ireland general election was held on 3 April 1925. It was the second election to the Parliament of Northern Ireland. It saw significant losses for the Ulster Unionist Party, although they maintained their large majority. This was the last election for the Stormont parliament conducted using Single transferable voting, a form of Proportional Representation. Fifty-two members were elected in ten districts, which each elected between four and eight members. The Ulster Unionist government abolished proportional representation during this parliament and replaced it with the first-past-the-post system used in Great Britain.

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1925 Northern Ireland general election

Party		Candidates						Votes
Party		Stood	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	Ulster Unionist	40	32	0	8	-8	61.5	55.0	211,662	-11.9
	Nationalist	11	10	4	0	+4	19.2	23.8	91,452	+12.0
	Ind. Unionist	4	4	4	0	+4	7.7	9.0	34,716	N/A
	Republican	6	2	0	4	-4	3.8	5.3	20,615	-15.2
	NI Labour	3	3	3	0	+3	5.8	4.7	18,114	+4.1
	Unbought Tenants	1	1	1	0	+1	1.9	1.3	4,886	N/A
	Town Tenants' Association	1	0	0	0		0	0.9	3,320	N/A

Electorate 611,683 (512,264 in contested seats); Turnout: 75.1% (384,745).

In Down (eight seats) and Queen's University of Belfast (four seats), no actual polling took place as all candidates were elected unopposed: 10 Ulster Unionist, 1 Nationalist and 1 Republican.