See main article: 1945 United Kingdom general election.
| Election Name: | 1945 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1935 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland |
| Previous Year: | 1935 |
| Election Date: | 5 July 1945 |
| Next Election: | 1950 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland |
| Next Year: | 1950 |
| Seats For Election: | 13 seats in Northern Ireland of the 615 seats in the House of Commons |
| Image1: | File:Sir Basil Brooke, 10 February 1941.png |
| Leader1: | Sir Basil Brooke, Bt |
| Party1: | Ulster Unionist Party |
| Leader Since1: | 1943 |
| Leaders Seat1: | Did not stand[1] |
| Seats1: | 9 |
| Leader2: | James McSparran |
| Leader Since2: | 1945 |
| Party2: | Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) |
| Leaders Seat2: | Did not stand[2] |
| Seats2: | 2 |
| Last Election1: | 11 |
| Seat Change1: | 2 |
| Last Election2: | 2 |
The 1945 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 5 July as part of the wider general election. There were ten constituencies, seven single-seat constituencies with elected by FPTP and three two-seat constituencies with MPs elected by bloc voting.
This was the first general election to Westminster in ten years, as elections had been postponed for the duration of World War II.
In the election as a whole, the Conservative Party government, which included the Ulster Unionists, lost out to the Labour Party, and Sir Winston Churchill was succeeded as Prime Minister by Clement Attlee.
| Party | MPs | Change | Uncontested | Votes[4] | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ulster Unionist | 9 | 2 | 1 | 394,373 | 54.5 | ||
| Nationalist | 2 | 0 | 148,078 | 20.5 | |||
| Independent Unionist | 1 | 1 | 0 | 68,895 | 9.5 | ||
| Independent Labour | 1 | 1 | 0 | 30,787 | 4.3 | ||
| NI Labour | 0 | 0 | 66,223 | 9.2 | |||
| Common Wealth Labour | 0 | 0 | 14,096 | 2.0 | |||
| Total | 13 | 1 | 723,180 | 100 | |||