MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1918

By-elections

See the list of United Kingdom by-elections.

eats vacant on dissolution

Eight seats were vacant when Parliament was dissolved preparatory to the 1922 General Election:

*Cork Mid--Terence MacSwiney (Sinn Féin) died October 25, 1920
*Cavan East--Arthur Griffith (Sinn Féin) died August 12, 1922
*Cork South--Michael Collins (Sinn Féin) died August 22, 1922These 3 seats, formed part of the Southern Ireland state, envisaged by the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, and were to be part of the forthcoming Irish Free State, as envisaged by the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, and thus were not part of the House of Commons 1922 election.

*Tyrone North-West--Arthur Griffith (Sinn Féin) died August 12, 1922

Changes

1921

*May: Unionist MPs in Northern Ireland are classified in this article as Ulster Unionists instead of Irish Unionists, due to the implementation of the Government of Ireland Act 1920 and the partition of Ireland.

References

*"Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922", edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
*"British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949", compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan 1977)
*"Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume III 1919-1945", edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (The Harvester Press 1979)