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1906 United Kingdom general election in Ireland

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103 seats for Ireland of the 670 seats in the House of Commons
First party Second party   Leader John Redmond Walter Long Party Irish Parliamentary Irish Unionist Leader since 1900 1906 Leader's seat Waterford City South Dublin Seats before 77 18 Seats won 81 16 Seat change 4 2 Popular vote 28,292 56,109 Percentage 21.5% 42.7%

The 1906 United Kingdom general election in Ireland was held in January 1906. Ninety-nine of the seats were in single-member districts using the first-past-the-post electoral system, and the constituencies of Cork City and Dublin University were two-member districts using block voting.

In the election as a whole, the Liberal Party won a clear majority in the election across the United Kingdom and Henry Campbell-Bannerman was appointed as Prime Minister. This was the first time since the split in the Liberal Party in 1886 that they governed without the support of the Irish Parliamentary Party.

The Irish Parliamentary Party won 81 of the 103 Irish seats on 21.5% of the vote because, in many constituencies, the candidates were unopposed.

Results

Party		Leader	Seats			Votes
			# of Seats	Seat Change	Uncontested	# of Votes	% of Votes
	Irish Parliamentary Party	John Redmond	81	1	73	28,292	21.5
	Irish Unionist	Walter Long	16	2	8	56,109	42.7
	Russellite Unionist	Thomas Russell	2	New	0	26,183	19.9
	Liberal Unionist	Joseph Chamberlain	1	2	0	4,719	3.6
	Independent Unionist		1	1	0	4,450	3.4
	Independent Nationalist		1		1	3,931	3.0
	Liberal	Henry Campbell-Bannerman	1		0	2,966	2.3
	Labour	Keir Hardie	0		0	4,616	3.5
	Independent Liberal Unionist		0		0	153	0.1
Total			103		82	131419	100
Source: B.M. Walker

See also

• History of Ireland (1801–1923)

References

1. Walker, Brian Mercer (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922 (New History of Ireland). Royal Irish Academy. pp. 165–170. ISBN 0901714127.

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