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The1945 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 5 July as part of the widergeneral election. There were ten constituencies, seven single-seat constituencies with elected byfirst-past-the-post voting and three two-seat constituencies with MPs elected byplurality block voting.
This was the first general election to Westminster in ten years, as elections had been postponed for the duration ofWorld War II.
In the election as a whole, theConservative Party government, which included the Ulster Unionists, lost out to theLabour Party, andSir Winston Churchill was succeeded asPrime Minister byClement Attlee.
| 1945 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland[1][2] | |||||||||||||||
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| 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.
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