1945 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

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

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

MPs elected

Constituency		MP
Antrim	Ulster Unionist	Samuel Haughton
Antrim	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
Down	Ulster Unionist	Walter Smiles
Fermanagh and Tyrone	Nationalist	Patrick Cunningham
Fermanagh and Tyrone	Nationalist	Anthony Mulvey
Londonderry	Ulster Unionist	Sir Ronald Ross, Bt
Queen's University of Belfast	Ulster Unionist	Douglas Savory

Footnotes

^ Brooke sat as the MP for Lisnaskea in the Northern Ireland Parliament.
^ McSparran sat as the MP for Mourne in the Northern Ireland Parliament.

References

^ "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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[1] Brooke sat as the MP for Lisnaskea in the Northern Ireland Parliament.

[2] McSparran sat as the MP for Mourne in the Northern Ireland Parliament.

[3] "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.

[rallings-4] Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (2006). British Electoral Facts. Ashgate. p. 33.

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