1945 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

1945 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

← 1935 5 July 1945 1950 →
13 seats in Northern Ireland of the 615 seats in the House of Commons
First party Second party   Nat Leader Sir Basil Brooke, Bt James McSparran Party UUP Nationalist Leader since 1943 1945 Leader's seat Did not stand[fn 1] Did not stand[fn 2] Last election 11 2 Seats won 9 2 Seat change 2

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.

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.

Results^[1]

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

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