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The1970 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 31 March with 12 MPs elected in single-seat constituencies usingfirst-past-the-post as part of the widergeneral election in the United Kingdom. It was the first general election held after theRepresentation of the People Act 1969 which reduced the voting age from 21 to 18.
TheUlster Unionists lost seats to theProtestant Unionist Party led byIan Paisley, moderator of theFree Presbyterian Church of Ulster, and toUnity, a nationalist organisation which had won aby-election in 1969.
In the election as a whole, theLabour Party failed to return to government and theConservative Party, which included the Ulster Unionists, formed a government led byEdward Heath asPrime Minister. This was the last parliament where the UUP took the Conservative whip in theHouse of Commons, breaking with them after theParliament of Northern Ireland was suspended by theNorthern Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act 1972.
| 1970 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland[1][2][3] | |||||||||||||||
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| Party | Candidates | Votes | |||||||||||||
| Stood | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | |||||||
| UUP | 12 | 8 | 0 | 3 |  3 | 66.7 | 54.2 | 422,041 | 7.6 | ||||||
| Unity | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 |  2 | 16.7 | 18.1 | 140,930 | 15.6 | ||||||
| NI Labour | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 12.6 | 98,194 | 0.4 | ||||||
| Protestant Unionist | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8.3 | 4.5 | 35,303 | 4.5 | ||||||
| Republican Labour | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8.3 | 3.9 | 30,649 | 0.5 | ||||||
| Ind. Unionist | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 17,787 | 2.3 | ||||||
| Ulster Liberal | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1.4 | 10,929 | 3.5 | ||||||
| National Democratic | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 10,349 | 1.3 | ||||||
| Independent Labour | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 7,565 | 1.0 | ||||||
| Independent | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 4,290 | 0.4 | ||||||
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