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1951 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland
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12 seats in Northern Ireland of the 625 seats in the House of Commons
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Sir Basil Brooke, Bt James McSparran William Norton
Party UUP Nationalist Irish Labour
Leader since 1943 1945 1932
Leader's seat Did not stand[fn 2] Did not stand[fn 3] Did not stand[fn 1]
Seats won 9 2 1
Seat change Decrease 1 Steady Increase1

The 1951 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 25 October as part of the wider general election with 12 MPs elected in single-seat constituencies using first-past-the-post.

Results

The Ulster Unionists lost one seat to Jack Beattie, formerly an Independent Labour MP but now standing for the Irish Labour Party. Four Ulster Unionist candidates were returned unopposed, the last UK general election in which any candidates were so returned.[1]

In the election as a whole, the Labour Party government led by Clement Attlee, which had won with a narrow majority in the previous election, lost out to the Conservative Party, which included the Ulster Unionists, led by Sir Winston Churchill, who returned as Prime Minister.

Results[2]
Party MPs Change Uncontested Votes[3] %[3]
bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" | Ulster Unionist 9 Decrease 1 4 274,928 59.4
bgcolor="Template:Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)/meta/color" | Nationalist 2 Steady 0 92,787 20.0
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color" | Irish Labour Party 1 Increase 1 0 33,174 7.2
bgcolor="Template:Northern Ireland Labour Party/meta/color" | Northern Ireland Labour Party 0 Increase 0 0 62,324 13.5
bgcolor="Template:Independent Republican (Ireland)/meta/color" | Independent Republican 0 Increase 0 0
Total 12 Steady 4 463,213 100

MPs elected

Constituency Party MP
Antrim North style="background-color: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color"| Ulster Unionist Hugh O'Neill
Antrim South style="background-color: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color"| Ulster Unionist Douglas Savory
Armagh style="background-color: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color"| Ulster Unionist Richard Harden
Belfast East style="background-color: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color"| Ulster Unionist Alan McKibbin
Belfast North style="background-color: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color"| Ulster Unionist H. Montgomery Hyde
Belfast South style="background-color: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color"| Ulster Unionist Conolly Gage
Belfast West style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color"| Irish Labour Jack Beattie
Down North style="background-color: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color"| Ulster Unionist Walter Smiles
Down South style="background-color: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color"| Ulster Unionist Lawrence Orr
Fermanagh and South Tyrone style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)/meta/color"| Nationalist Cahir Healy
Londonderry style="background-color: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color"| Ulster Unionist William Wellwood
Ulster Mid style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)/meta/color"| Nationalist Michael O'Neill

Footnotes

  1. ^ Norton sat as a TD for Kildare in Dáil Éireann.
  2. ^ Brooke sat as the MP for Lisnaskea in the Northern Ireland Parliament.
  3. ^ McSparran sat as the MP for Mourne in the Northern Ireland Parliament.

References

  1. ^ "General Election Results 1885–1979". election.demon.co.uk. Archived from the original on 8 October 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2020 – via Wayback Machine. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 23 February 2008 suggested (help)
  2. ^ "Elections to the United Kingdom Parliament held in Northern Ireland: General Election 1951". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  3. ^ a b Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (2006). British Electoral Facts. Ashgate. p. 37.


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