1951 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland
The 1951 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 25 October as part of the wider general election with 12 MPs elected in single-seat constituencies using first-past-the-post.
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Results
The Ulster Unionists lost one seat to Jack Beattie, formerly an Independent Labour MP but now standing for the Irish Labour Party.
In the election as a whole, the Labour Party government led by Clement Attlee, which had won with a narrow majority in the previous election, lost out to the Conservative Party, which included the Ulster Unionists, led by Sir Winston Churchill, who returned as Prime Minister.
Party | MPs | Change | Uncontested | Votes[2] | %[2] | |
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Ulster Unionist | 9 | 4 | 274,928 | 59.4 | ||
Nationalist | 2 | 0 | 92,787 | 20.0 | ||
Irish Labour Party | 1 | 0 | 33,174 | 7.2 | ||
Northern Ireland Labour Party | 0 | 0 | 62,324 | 13.5 | ||
Independent Republican | 0 | 0 | ||||
Total | 12 | 4 | 463,213 | 100 |
MPs elected
Constituency | Party | MP | |
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Antrim North | Ulster Unionist | Hugh O'Neill | |
Antrim South | Ulster Unionist | Douglas Savory | |
Armagh | Ulster Unionist | Richard Harden | |
Belfast East | Ulster Unionist | Alan McKibbin | |
Belfast North | Ulster Unionist | H. Montgomery Hyde | |
Belfast South | Ulster Unionist | Conolly Gage | |
Belfast West | Irish Labour | Jack Beattie | |
Down North | Ulster Unionist | Walter Smiles | |
Down South | Ulster Unionist | Lawrence Orr | |
Fermanagh and South Tyrone | Nationalist | Cahir Healy | |
Londonderry | Ulster Unionist | William Wellwood | |
Ulster Mid | Nationalist | Michael O'Neill |
Footnotes
References
- "Elections to the United Kingdom Parliament held in Northern Ireland: General Election 1951". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
- Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael (2006). British Electoral Facts. Ashgate. p. 37.
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