1965 Northern Ireland general election

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All 52 seats to theHouse of Commons of Northern Ireland 27 seats were needed for a majority
First party Second party   Nat Leader Terence O'Neill Eddie McAteer Party UUP Nationalist Leader since 25 March 1963 2 June 1964 Leader's seat Bannside Foyle Last election 34 seats, 48.8% 9 seats, 15.1% Seats won 36[a] 9[c] Seat change 2 Popular vote 191,896[b] 26,748[b] Percentage 59.1% 8.2% Swing 10.3% 6.9%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Tom Boyd Gerry Fitt Party NI Labour Republican Labour Leader since 1958 1964 Leader's seat Belfast Pottinger Belfast Dock Last election 4 seats, 25.4% Did not exist Seats won 2 2[d] Seat change 2 2 Popular vote 66,323[b] 3,326[b] Percentage 20.4% 1.0% Swing 5.0% New party
Election results by constituency
Prime Minister before election Terence O'Neill UUP Prime Minister after election Terence O'Neill UUP

The1965 Northern Ireland general election was held on 25 November 1965. Like all previous elections to theParliament of Northern Ireland, it produced a large majority for theUlster Unionist Party.

1965 Northern Ireland general election
Party		Candidates						Votes
		Stood	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	UUP	41	36[a]	2	0	+2	69.2	59.1	191,896	+10.3
	NI Labour	17	2	0	2	-2	3.8	20.4	66,323	-5.0
	Nationalist	9	9[c]	0	0	0	17.3	8.2	26,748	-6.9
	National Democratic	1	1[e]	1	0	+1	1.9	4.7	15,206	N/A
	Ulster Liberal	4	1[f]	0	0	0	1.9	3.9	12,618	+0.3
	Independent Labour	1	0	0	0	0	—	1.4	4,371	-1.7
	Republican Labour	2	2[d]	1	0	+2	3.8	1.0	3,326	N/A
	New Ireland Movement	1	0	0	0	0	—	1.0	3,111	N/A
	Ind. Republican	1	0	0	0	0	—	0.2	682	N/A
	Communist (NI)	1	0	0	0	0	—	0.1	308	N/A
	Independent	1	1[g]	0	0	0	1.9	0.0	0	-0.4

All parties shown. The only independent candidate was elected unopposed.Electorate: 907,667 (563,252 in contested seats); Turnout: 57.6% (324,589).

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