Northern Ireland general election, 1949
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| Northern Ireland general election, 1949 | ||||
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| All 52 seats to the Northern Ireland House of Commons | ||||
| 19 February 1949 | ||||
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| Leader | Basil Brooke | James McSparran | None | |
| Party | Ulster Unionist | Nationalist (NI) | Labour (NI) | |
| Leader since | 1 May 1943 | 15 November 1945 | N/A | |
| Leader's seat | Lisnaskea | Mourne | None | |
| Last election | 33 seats (50.4%) | 9 seats (9.1%) | 2 seats (18.5%) | |
| Seats won | 37 | 9 | 0 | |
| Seat change | +4 | 0 | -2 | |
| Popular vote | 237,411 | 101,445 | 26,831 | |
| Percentage | 62.7% | 26.8% | 7.1% | |
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Incumbent Prime Minister Prime Minister-elect |
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The Northern Ireland general election, 1949 was held on 19 February 1949. The election became known as the Chapel-gate election because collections were held at churches in the Republic of Ireland to support the Nationalist Party campaign.
The election was held just after the Republic of Ireland's declaration of a republic. The Unionists were able to use their majority in the Parliament of Northern Ireland to schedule the election at a time when many Protestants felt uneasy about development south of the border and as a result might be more likely to vote Unionist than for Labour candidates. This appears to have been bourne out in the collapse of the Labour vote.
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[edit] Results
| Northern Ireland General Election 1949 | |||||||||||||||
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| Party | Standing | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | ||||||
| Ulster Unionist | 46 | 37 | 4 | 0 | + 4 | 71.2 | 62.7 | 237,411 | +12.3 | ||||||
| Nationalist (NI) | 17 | 9 | 0 | 1 | - 1 | 17.3 | 26.8 | 101,445 | +17.6 | ||||||
| Labour (NI) | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | - 2 | 7.1 | 26,831 | -11.4 | |||||||
| Independent Labour | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 7,970 | -0.7 | ||||||
| Independent Unionist | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.8 | 0.6 | 2,150 | -4.4 | ||||||
| Independent | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.8 | 0.5 | 2,028 | +0.2 | ||||||
| Communist (NI) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 623 | -2.6 | |||||||
| Socialist Republican | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0 | -1.5 | ||||||
All parties shown. The only Socialist Republican Party candidate was elected unopposed. Electorate 846,719 (477,354 in contested seats); Turnout 79.3% (378,458).
[edit] Votes summary
| Popular vote | ||||
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| Ulster Unionist | 62.73% | |||
| Nationalist Party | 26.8% | |||
| Independent Unionist | 0.57% | |||
| Labour | 7.1% | |||
| Independent Labour | 2.11% | |||
| Communist | 0.16% | |||
| Independent | 0.54% | |||
[edit] Seats summary
| Parliamentary seats | ||||
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| Ulster Unionist | 71.15% | |||
| Nationalist Party | 17.31% | |||
| Independent Unionist | 3.85% | |||
| Independent Labour | 1.92% | |||
| Socialist Republican | 1.92% | |||
| Independent | 3.85% | |||
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