Английская Википедия:1979 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

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The 1979 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 3 May with 12 MPs elected in single-seat constituencies using first-past-the-post as part of the wider general election in the United Kingdom.

Results

The election was after Labour Party prime minister James Callaghan lost a vote of confidence by 311 votes to 310. The election was won by the Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher, and began a period of 18-year government by the party.

Ulster Unionist leader Harry West failed to win a seat for the second time, and would resign later that year after failing to win a seat at the first European Parliament election. The Democratic Unionist Party increased its representation, and the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party had disbanded.

Frank Maguire was re-elected as an Independent Nationalist, beating the leaders of both the UUP and the new United Ulster Unionist Party, as well as Austin Currie, a member of the SDLP standing without the support of the party. Maguire's death on 5 March 1981 led by a by-election won by Bobby Sands, an IRA prisoner who died later that year as a result of a hunger strike. The Representation of the People Act 1981 disqualified prisoners detained for more than a year from membership of the House of Commons, so the resulting by-election was contested by Sands's election agent Owen Carron, rather than by another prisoner on hunger strike.

Results

Party		MPs		Votes
		No.	Change	No.	%	Change
Шаблон:Party name with colour	5	Шаблон:Decrease 1	254,578	36.6%	Шаблон:Increase 0.1
Шаблон:Party name with colour	3	Шаблон:Increase 2	70,795	10.2%	Шаблон:Increase 1.7
Шаблон:Party name with colour	1	Шаблон:Increase 1	126,235	18.2%	Шаблон:Decrease 4.2
Шаблон:Party name with colour	1	New	39,856	5.7%	Шаблон:Increase 5.7
Шаблон:Party name with colour	1	Шаблон:Increase 1	36,989	5.3%	Шаблон:Increase 4.6
Шаблон:Party name with colour	1	Шаблон:Steady	22,398	3.2%	Шаблон:Decrease 1.5
Шаблон:Party name with colour	0	Шаблон:Steady	82,892	11.9%	Шаблон:Increase 5.5
Шаблон:Party name with colour	0	New	23,086	3.3%	Шаблон:Increase 3.3
Шаблон:Party name with colour	0	Шаблон:Steady	12,098	1.7%	Шаблон:Decrease 1.3
	Independent SDLP	0	Шаблон:Steady	10,795	1.6%	Шаблон:Increase 1.6
Шаблон:Party name with colour	0	Шаблон:Steady	8,021	1.2%	Шаблон:Decrease 1.9
Шаблон:Party name with colour	0	Шаблон:Steady	4,411	0.6%	Шаблон:Decrease 1.0
Шаблон:Party name with colour	0	Шаблон:Steady	1,895	0.3%	Шаблон:Increase 0.3
Шаблон:Party name with colour or other	0	Шаблон:Steady	1,578	0.2%	Шаблон:Decrease 0.3
Total		12	Шаблон:Steady	695,627	100	Шаблон:Steady

MPs elected

Constituency	Party		MP
Antrim North	Шаблон:Party name with colour	Ian Paisley
Antrim South	Шаблон:Party name with colour	James Molyneaux
Armagh	Шаблон:Party name with colour	Harold McCusker
Belfast East	Шаблон:Party name with colour	Peter Robinson
Belfast North	Шаблон:Party name with colour	John McQuade
Belfast South	Шаблон:Party name with colour	Robert Bradford
Belfast West	Шаблон:Party name with colour	Gerry Fitt
Down North	Шаблон:Party name with colour	Jim Kilfedder
Down South	Шаблон:Party name with colour	Enoch Powell
Fermanagh and South Tyrone	Шаблон:Party name with colour	Frank Maguire
Londonderry	Шаблон:Party name with colour	William Ross
Mid Ulster	Шаблон:Party name with colour	John Dunlop

By-elections

Constituency	Date	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause
Fermanagh and South Tyrone	9 April 1981	Frank Maguire	Шаблон:Party name with colour	Bobby Sands	Шаблон:Party name with colour	Death
Fermanagh and South Tyrone	20 August 1981	Bobby Sands	Шаблон:Party name with colour	Owen Carron	Шаблон:Party name with colour	Death from hunger strike
Belfast South	4 March 1982	Robert Bradford	Шаблон:Party name with colour	Martin Smyth	Шаблон:Party name with colour	Killed by the IRA

References

Шаблон:Northern-Ireland-politics-stub