Northern Ireland general election, 1945

14 June 1945

All 52 seats to the Northern Ireland House of Commons 27 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Basil Brooke	T. J. Campbell	Paddy Agnew
Party	UUP	Nationalist	NI Labour
Leader since	1 May 1943	18 January 1934	1938
Leader's seat	Lisnaskea	Belfast Central	South Armagh (defeated)
Last election	39 seats (56.8%)	8 seats (4.9%)	1 seat (5.7%)
Seats won	33	9	2
Seat change	6	1	1
Popular vote	180,342	32,546	66,053
Percentage	50.4%	9.1%	18.5%
Swing	6.4%	4.2%	12.8%

Percentage of seats gained by each of the party.

Prime Minister before election

Basil Brooke
UUP

Elected Prime Minister

Basil Brooke
UUP

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The Northern Ireland general election, 1945 was held on 14 June 1945. Like all other elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland, it returned a large Ulster Unionist Party majority.

Results

Northern Ireland General Election 1945
		Candidates						Votes
Party		Standing	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	№	Net %
	UUP	41	33	0	6	- 6	63.5	50.4	180,342	-6.4
	NI Labour	15	2	2	1	+ 1	3.8	18.5	66,053	+12.8
	Nationalist	11	9	3	2	+ 1	19.2	9.1	32,546	+4.2
	Commonwealth Labour	6	1	1	0	+ 1	1.9	7.8	28,079	+7.8
	Independent Unionist	5	2	1	1	0	3.8	5.0	17,906	-1.8
	Communist (NI)	3	0	0	0	0		3.5	12,456	+3.5
	Independent Labour	2	1	0	0	0	1.9	2.8	9,872	+1.1
	Socialist Republican	2	1	1	0	+ 1	1.9	1.5	5,497	+1.5
	Federation of Labour	1	0	0	0	0		1.1	3,912	+1.1
	Independent	2	2	2	0	+ 2	3.8	0.3	1,219	-1.9

Electorate: 845,964 (509,098 in contested seats); Turnout: 70.3% (357,882).

Elections and referendums in Northern Ireland

NI general elections	1921 1925 1929 1933 1938 1945 1949 1953 1958 1962 1965 1969

Ad-hoc elections	1973 1975 1982 1996

Assembly elections	1998 2003 2007 2011 2016

European elections	1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014

Local elections	1924 1946 1967 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2011 2014

Referendums	1973 1998

UK general elections	2001 2005 2010 2015

See also: Elections in the Kingdom of Ireland Elections in Ireland as part of the UK UK elections

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