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1945 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland
← 1935 5 July 1945 1950 →
13 seats in Northern Ireland of the
615 seats in the House of Commons
  First party Second party
 
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Leader Sir Basil Brooke, Bt James McSparran
Party UUP Nationalist
Alliance Conservative
Leader since 1943 1945
Leader's seat Did not stand Did not stand
Seats won 9[a] 2
Seat change Decrease2 Steady
Popular vote 267,363[b] 55,259[b]
Percentage 58.2% 12.0%
Swing Decrease4.0% Decrease5.8%

The 1945 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 5 July as part of the wider general election. There were ten constituencies, seven single-seat constituencies with elected by FPTP and three two-seat constituencies with MPs elected by bloc voting.

Results

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This was the first general election to Westminster in ten years, as elections had been postponed for the duration of World War II.

In the election as a whole, the Conservative Party government, which included the Ulster Unionists, lost out to the Labour Party, and Sir Winston Churchill was succeeded as Prime Minister by Clement Attlee.

1945 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland[1][2]
Party Candidates Votes
Stood Elected Gained Unseated Net % of total % No. Net %
  UUP 13 9[a] 0 2 -2 69.2 58.2 267,363 -4.0
  NI Labour 5 0 0 0 0 — 12.4 57,022 +12.4
  Nationalist 2 2 0 0 0 15.4 12.0 55,259 -5.8
  Ind. Unionist 2 1 1 0 +1 7.7 7.5 34,448 +7.5
  Independent Labour 1 1 1 0 +1 7.7 6.7 30,787 +6.7
  Commonwealth Labour 1 0 0 0 0 — 3.1 14,096 +3.1
  Independent 1 0 0 0 0 — 0.2 728 +0.2
  Ind. Nationalist 0 0 0 0 0 — — — -20.0

Votes in constituencies using the bloc voting system are counted as 0.5 each, as each voter had one vote per seat.

MPs elected

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Constituency Party MP
Antrim Ulster Unionist Samuel Haughton
Ulster Unionist Hugh O'Neill
Armagh Ulster Unionist William Allen
Belfast East Ulster Unionist Thomas Loftus Cole
Belfast North Ulster Unionist William Neill
Belfast South Ulster Unionist Conolly Gage
Belfast West Independent Labour Jack Beattie
Down Independent Unionist James Little
Ulster Unionist Walter Smiles
Fermanagh and Tyrone Nationalist Patrick Cunningham
Nationalist Anthony Mulvey
Londonderry Ulster Unionist Sir Ronald Ross, Bt
Queen's University of Belfast Ulster Unionist Douglas Savory

Footnotes

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b Includes 1 member elected unopposed.
  2. ^ a b Voting took place in 12 of 13 seats.
    The other MP was unopposed.

References

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  1. ^ "Elections to the United Kingdom Parliament held in Northern Ireland: General Election 1945". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 8 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  2. ^ Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (2006). British Electoral Facts. Ashgate. p. 33.


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