The 1945 Northern Ireland general election was held on 14 June 1945. The election saw significant losses for the
Ulster Unionist Party
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. The party was founded in 1905, emerging from the Irish Unionist Alliance in Ulster. Under Edward Carson, it led unionist opposition to the Irish Home Rule m ...
, though they retained their majority.
Mirroring the result across the rest of the UK in the
1945 UK general election
The 1945 United Kingdom general election was a national election held on 5 July 1945, but polling in some constituencies was delayed by some days, and the counting of votes was delayed until 26 July to provide time for overseas votes to be bro ...
, candidates standing on behalf of the various Labour parties won a significantly higher vote share of 30%,
[19% for the ]Northern Irish Labour Party
The Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP) was a political party in Northern Ireland which operated from 1924 until 1987.
Origins
The roots of the NILP can be traced back to the formation of the Belfast Labour Party in 1892. William Walker stood ...
, 8% for the Commonwealth Labour Party, 3% for Independent Labour candidates and 1% for the Federation of Labour but this translated into just two new MPs due to the
first-past-the-post
In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast thei ...
electoral system.
Results
''Electorate: 845,964 (509,098 in contested seats); Turnout: 70.3% (357,882).''
Votes summary
Seats summary
Footnotes
See also
* 1945 United Kingdom general election
References
Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results
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1945
1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which Nuclear weapon, nuclear weapons Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, have been used in combat.
Events
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1945 elections in the United Kingdom
June 1945 events in the United Kingdom
1945 elections in Northern Ireland