1945 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland
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13 seats in Northern Ireland of the 615 seats in the House of Commons | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
[edit]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.
| Party | MPs | Change | Uncontested | Votes[2] | %[2] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ulster Unionist | 9 |  2
|
1 | 394,373 | 54.5 | |
| Nationalist | 2 | 
|
0 | 148,078 | 20.5 | |
| Independent Unionist | 1 |  1
|
0 | 68,895 | 9.5 | |
| Independent Labour | 1 | 1
|
0 | 30,787 | 4.3 | |
| NI Labour | 0 |
|
0 | 66,223 | 9.2 | |
| Common Wealth Labour | 0 |
|
0 | 14,096 | 2.0 | |
| Total | 13 |
|
1 | 723,180 | 100 | |
MPs elected
[edit]Footnotes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "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.
- ^ a b Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (2006). British Electoral Facts. Ashgate. p. 33.
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