1924 Northern Ireland local elections

1924 Northern Ireland local elections
← 1920 January and June 1924
All council seats
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Leader James Craig Joseph Devlin
Party UUP Nationalist

The 1924 Northern Irish local elections were held in January & June 1924 for the various county & district councils of Northern Ireland. The election followed changes by the Unionist government, which had redrawn electoral districts, abolished PR for local elections, and implemented a requirement for members of local authorities to take an oath of allegiance.[1]

These changes are now widely considered by historians as gerrymandering intended to manipulate the election outcome in favour of the Ulster Unionists. As a result unionists won the majority of seats in several nationalist areas and most nationalists' victories from the 1920 Irish local elections were overturned.[2]

  1. ^ A New History of Ireland Volume VII: Ireland, 1921-84, p.124
  2. ^ Buckland, Patrick (1979). The factory of grievances : devolved government in Northern Ireland, 1921-39. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. ISBN 0-06-490752-X. OCLC 6001755.