1945 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

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1945 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

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13 seats in Northern Ireland of the 640 seats in the House of Commons
First party Second party   Nat Leader Sir Basil Brooke, Bt James McSparran Party UUP Nationalist Alliance Conservative Leader since 1943 1945 Leader's seat Did not stand Did not stand Seats won 9 [a] 2 Seat change 2 Popular vote 267,363 [b] 55,259 [b] Percentage 58.2% 12.0% Swing 4.0% 5.8%

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 first-past-the-post voting and three two-seat constituencies with MPs elected by plurality block voting.

Results

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.

1945 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland [1] [2]
Party		Candidates						Votes
		Stood	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	UUP	13	9 [a]	0	2	-2	69.2	58.2	267,363	-4.0
	NI Labour	5	0	0	0	0	—	12.4	57,022	+12.4
	Nationalist	2	2	0	0	0	15.4	12.0	55,259	-5.8
	Ind. Unionist	2	1	1	0	+1	7.7	7.5	34,448	+7.5
	Independent Labour	1	1	1	0	+1	7.7	6.7	30,787	+6.7
	Commonwealth Labour	1	0	0	0	0	—	3.1	14,096	+3.1
	Independent	1	0	0	0	0	—	0.2	728	+0.2
	Ind. Nationalist	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	-20.0

Votes in constituencies using the bloc voting system are counted as 0.5 each, as each voter had one vote per seat.

MPs elected

Constituency	Party		MP
Antrim		Ulster Unionist	Samuel Haughton
		Ulster Unionist	Hugh O'Neill
Armagh		Ulster Unionist	William Allen
Belfast East		Ulster Unionist	Thomas Loftus Cole
Belfast North		Ulster Unionist	William Neill
Belfast South		Ulster Unionist	Conolly Gage
Belfast West		Independent Labour	Jack Beattie
Down		Independent Unionist	James Little
		Ulster Unionist	Walter Smiles
Fermanagh and Tyrone		Nationalist	Patrick Cunningham
		Nationalist	Anthony Mulvey
Londonderry		Ulster Unionist	Sir Ronald Ross, Bt
Queen's University of Belfast		Ulster Unionist	Douglas Savory

Notes

1. Includes 1 member elected unopposed.
2. Voting took place in 12 of 13 seats.
   The other MP was unopposed.

References

1. "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.
2. Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (2006). British Electoral Facts. Ashgate. p. 33.