Northern Ireland general election, 1945
Encyclopedia
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.
Electorate: 845,964 (509,098 in contested seats); Turnout: 70.3% (357,882).
Parliament of Northern Ireland
The Parliament of Northern Ireland was the home rule legislature of Northern Ireland, created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, which sat from 7 June 1921 to 30 March 1972, when it was suspended...
, it returned a large Ulster Unionist Party
Ulster Unionist Party
The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
majority.
Results
|}Electorate: 845,964 (509,098 in contested seats); Turnout: 70.3% (357,882).