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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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.
Party | MPs | Change | Uncontested | Votes[2] | %[2] | |
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bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" | | Ulster Unionist | 9 | 1 | 4 | 274,928 | 59.4 |
bgcolor="Template:Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)/meta/color" | | Nationalist | 2 | 0 | 92,787 | 20.0 | |
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color" | | Irish Labour Party | 1 | 1 | 0 | 33,174 | 7.2 |
bgcolor="Template:Northern Ireland Labour Party/meta/color" | | Northern Ireland Labour Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 62,324 | 13.5 |
bgcolor="Template:Independent Republican (Ireland)/meta/color" | | Independent Republican | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Total | 12 | 4 | 463,213 | 100 |
MPs elected
Footnotes
References
- ^ "Elections to the United Kingdom Parliament held in Northern Ireland: General Election 1951". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
- ^ a b Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (2006). British Electoral Facts. Ashgate. p. 37.