List of members of the 5th House of Commons of Northern Ireland

Members

Changes

• 29 September 1938: Norman Stronge elected for the Unionists in Mid Armagh, following the resignation of John Clarke Davison.
• 5 December 1938: Howard Stevenson elected as a Unionist for Queen's University, following the death of Robert James Johnstone.
• 1938: James Brown accepted the Ulster Unionist whip.
• 30 March 1939: Death of George Leeke, MP for Mid Londonderry. This position remained unfilled at the time of the 1945 general election.
• 27 April 1939: William Lowry elected for the Unionists in City of Londonderry, following the resignation of Edward Sullivan Murphy.
• 10 November 1939: Malcolm Patrick elected for the Unionists in Bannside, following the death of George Charles Gillespie Young.
• 15 March 1941: George Dougan elected for the Unionists in Central Armagh, following the death of David Shillington.
• 27 March 1941: Thomas Bailie elected as an independent Unionist in North Down, following the death of James Craig.
• 2 July 1941: Michael McGurk elected as an independent Nationalist in Mid Tyrone, following the death of Hugh McAleer.
• 3 December 1941: Harry Midgley elected for the Northern Ireland Labour Party in Belfast Willowfield, following the resignation of Arthur Black.
• 2 April 1942: Eamon Donnelly elected as an independent Republican in Belfast Falls, following the death of Richard Byrne
• 19 October 1942: William Lyle elected as a Unionist for Queen's University, following the death of Arthur Brownlow Mitchell.
• 1942: Jack Beattie re-admitted into the Northern Ireland Labour Party.
• December 1942: Harry Midgley resigned from the Northern Ireland Labour Party and founds the Commonwealth Labour Party.
• 2 July 1943: John W. Renshaw elected as a Unionist for Queen's University, following the resignation of Robert Corkey.
• 11 August 1943: Thomas Lyons elected for the Unionists in North Tyrone, following the death of James Gamble.
• 26 August 1943: John Dermot Campbell elected for the Unionists in Carrick, following the resignation of John Fawcett Gordon.
• 1943: Jack Beattie resigned from the Northern Ireland Labour Party to sit as an independent Labour MP.
• 13 December 1944: Herbert Quin elected as a Unionist for Queen's University, following the resignation of John MacDermott.
• 29 December 1944: Death of Eamon Donnelly, MP for Belfast Falls. This position remained unfilled at the time of the general election.
• 12 April 1945: William McCoy elected for the Unionists in South Tyrone, following the death of Rowley Elliott.
• 19 April 1945: Lancelot Curran elected for the Unionists in Carrick, following the death of John Dermot Campbell.
• 19 April 1945: Walter Topping elected for the Unionists in Larne, following the death of Harold Claude Robinson.
• 1945: Thomas Bailie accepted the Ulster Unionist Party whip.

References

• Biographies of Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons