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Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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15 November 1922
David Douglas Reid	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed
Very Rev John Morrow Simms	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed

6 December 1923
David Douglas Reid	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed
Very Rev John Morrow Simms	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed

29 October 1924		67,870/96,285	70.49
David Douglas Reid	Conservative & Unionist Party	58,929	86.83
Very Rev John Morrow Simms	Conservative & Unionist Party	58,777	86.60
Michael Murney	Sinn Féin	8,941	13.17
Majority		49,836	73.43

30 May 1929		75,014/127,346	58.91
David Douglas Reid	Conservative & Unionist Party	54,073	72.08
Very Rev John Morrow Simms	Conservative & Unionist Party	53,943	71.91
Robert Davis Pollock	Liberal Party	20,999	27.99
David Johnston	Liberal Party	20,013	26.68
Majority		32,944	43.92

27 October 1931		127,658
Edward Charles Stewart Robert Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed
David Douglas Reid	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed

14 November 1935		86,845/134,467	64.58
David Douglas Reid	Conservative & Unionist Party	66,324	76.37
Edward Charles Stewart Robert Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh	Conservative & Unionist Party	65,829	75.80
Patrick Francis O'Hagan	Republican	20,236	23.30
Majority		45,593	52.50

Patrick O'Hagan was supported by Sinn F?in.

23 March 1939 Death of Sir David Reid, Bt.

10 May 1939
Rev Dr James Little	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed

May 1945 Rev Dr James Little resigned from the Conservative Party after a meeting held to adopt two Conservative candidates for the forthcoming General Election. He objected to his name being added to a list of six other candidates who had been put forward for the vacancy caused by the retirement of Viscount Castlereagh. He considered that his re-adoption should not be subjected to a ballot and left the meeting after announcing his intention to seek election as an Independent Conservative.

5 July 1945		71,752/145,524	49.31
Rev Dr James Little	Independent Conservative	46,732	65.13
Sir Walter Dorling Smiles	Conservative & Unionist Party	24,148	33.65
John Matthew Blakiston-Houston	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,730	31.68
James Brown	Independent Unionist	22,163	30.89
Majority		1,418	1.98

James Brown sought election as a Democratic Unionist, Farmers and Industries candidate.

31 March 1946 Death of Rev Dr James Little.

6 June 1946		98,565/147,978	66.61
Charles Heron Mullan	Conservative & Unionist Party	50,699	51.44
Desmond Louis Donnelly	Labour Party	28,846	29.27
J Hastings-Little	Independent Conservative	16,895	17.14
James Brown	Dem U	2,125	2.16
Majority		21,853	22.17