1945 Northern Ireland general election
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All 52 seats to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 27 seats were needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1945 Northern Ireland general election was held on 14 June 1945. The election saw significant losses for the Ulster Unionist Party, though they retained their majority.
Mirroring the result across the rest of the UK in the 1945 UK general election, candidates standing on behalf of the various Labour parties won a significantly higher vote share of 30%,[nb 1] but this translated into just two new MPs due to the first-past-the-post electoral system.
Results
style="background:Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color; width:63.46%;" | 33 | style="background:Template:Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)/meta/color; width:19.23%;" | 10 | style="background:Template:Northern Ireland Labour Party/meta/color; width:3.85%;" | 2 | style="background:Template:Independent Unionist/meta/color; width:3.85%%;" | 2 | 5 |
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Party | Candidates | Votes | |||||||||||||
Stood | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | |||||||
UUP | 41 | 33 | 0 | 6 | -6 | 63.5 | 50.4 | 180,342 | -6.4 | ||||||
NI Labour | 15 | 2 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 3.8 | 18.5 | 66,053 | +12.8 | ||||||
Nationalist | 11 | 10 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 19.2 | 9.1 | 32,546 | +4.2 | ||||||
Commonwealth Labour | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 1.9 | 7.8 | 28,079 | N/A | ||||||
Ind. Unionist | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3.8 | 5.0 | 17,906 | -1.8 | ||||||
Communist (NI) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.5 | 12,456 | N/A | |||||||
Independent Labour | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.9 | 2.8 | 9,872 | +1.1 | ||||||
Socialist Republican | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 5,497 | N/A | ||||||
Federation of Labour | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 3,912 | N/A | |||||||
Independent | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 3.8 | 0.3 | 1,219 | -1.9 |
Electorate: 845,964 (509,098 in contested seats); Turnout: 70.3% (357,882).
Votes summary
Seats summary
Footnotes
- ^ 19% for the Northern Irish Labour Party, 8% for the Commonwealth Labour Party, 3% for Independent Labour candidates and 1% for the Federation of Labour