1,480 candidates nominated for UK general election
Westminster, 6 November 1922 – 1,480 candidates were nominated on 4 November to fill the 615 seats in the next Westminster parliament.
Not all of these seats will be contested; 51 MPs will be returned unopposed, 38 of them being members of the Conservative Party.
In the six counties of Northern Ireland, unionist candidates will only face competition in Tyrone and Fermanagh from nationalists Thomas Harbinson and Cahir Healy, and in Derry from Home Ruler Capt. Edmund Macnaghten. T.P. O’Connor will contest the election in Liverpool.
Of the nominated candidates, the largest single party represented is the Conservatives with 461, followed by Labour with 414, Asquith’s Liberals with 336 and Lloyd George’s National Liberals with 135.
The Irish Unionists are fielding 13 candidates, Irish Nationalists 3 candidates and anti-partitionists 1 candidate. There will also be 67 Independents running as well as candidates in the English and Scottish Universities.
Polling is scheduled to take place on 15 November and the new parliament will then meet on 23 November.
[Editor's note: This is an article from Century Ireland, a fortnightly online newspaper, written from the perspective of a journalist 100 years ago, based on news reports of the time.]
