Sinn Féin Westminster election results


This article lists Sinn Féin's election results in UK parliamentary elections.

Summary of general election performance

Election results

By-elections 1906–1910

ElectionCandidateVotes%Position
1908 North Leitrim by-election1,15727.22

By-elections, 1910–1918

1918 general election

Cork City was a two-seat constituency, and both Sinn Féin candidate were elected.

By-elections, 1918–22

1924 general election

1950 general election

McAteer stood as an independent republican candidate.

1955 general election

By-elections, 1955–59

1959 general election

1964 general election

These Sinn Féin members stood as Independent Republican candidates.
ConstituencyCandidateVotes%Position
Armagh12,43223.02
Belfast East1,8274.33
Belfast North2,7435.53
Belfast South1,1593.03
Belfast West3,2566.34
Fermanagh and South Tyrone14,64526.92
Londonderry21,12335.92
Mid Ulster22,18039.62
North Antrim4,4249.92
North Down8551.44
South Antrim3,8305.73
South Down11,03119.83

1966 general election

These Sinn Féin members stood as Independent Republican candidates.
ConstituencyCandidateVotes%Position
Armagh13,46728.02
Fermanagh and South Tyrone10,37019.13
Londonderry2,8604.83
Mid Ulster27,16847.82
South Down8,91717.43

By-elections, 1979–83

These Sinn Féin members stood as Anti H-Block candidates.
ElectionCandidateVotes%Position
April 1981 Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election30,49351.21
August 1981 Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election31,27849.11

1983 general election

By-elections, 1983–87

1987 general election

By-elections, 1987–92

1992 general election

1997 general election

By-elections, 1997–2001

2001 general election

2005 general election

2010 general election

By-elections, 2010–15

2015 general election

2017 general election

By-elections, 2017-2019

2019 general election

Sinn Féin did not stand candidates in Belfast East, Belfast South or North Down in order to aid anti-Brexit and anti-Democratic Unionist Party candidates in those constituencies.
ConstituencyCandidateVotes%Position
Belfast North23,07847.11
Belfast West20,86653.81
East Antrim2,1205.74
East Londonderry6,12815.63
Fermanagh and South Tyrone21,98643.31
Foyle9,77120.72
Lagan Valley1,0982.45
Mid Ulster20,47345.91
Newry and Armagh20,28740.01
North Antrim5,63212.84
South Antrim4,88711.44
South Down16,13732.41
Strangford5551.55
Upper Bann12,29124.62
West Tyrone16,54440.21

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