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The1959 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 8 October with 12 MPs elected in single-seat constituencies usingfirst-past-the-post as part of the widergeneral election in the United Kingdom.
The election took place towards the end of theIRA border campaign, which had seen the IRA launch a series of attacks and bombings against Northern Irish police and infrastructure. The launch of the campaign had in part been encouraged by the results of the last UK general election in Northern Ireland, which had seen Sinn Féin gain 2 seats, and receive nearly a quarter of the vote.
TheUlster Unionists won all the seats in region. This was a net gain from the result at theprevious election, although they held all seats in the region before the 1959 election was called: inFermanagh and South Tyrone,Philip Clarke was unseated by petition andRobert Grosvenor was declared elected to the seat; inMid Ulster,George Forrest had been elected ina by-election as anIndependent Unionist, but subsequently joined the Ulster Unionists.
In the election as a whole, theConservative Party, which included the Ulster Unionists, led byHarold Macmillan asPrime Minister, continued in a majority government.
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| Party | Candidates | Votes | |||||||||||||
| Stood | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | |||||||
| UUP | 12 | 12 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 100.0 | 77.2 | 445,013 | +8.5 | ||||||
| Sinn Féin | 12 | 0 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 0.0 | 11.0 | 63,415 | −12.6 | ||||||
| NI Labour | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 7.7 | 44,370 | +2.2 | ||||||
| Independent Labour | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3.5 | 20,062 | +3.5 | ||||||
| Ulster Liberal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 3,253 | +0.6 | ||||||
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