1950 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

1950 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland
← 1945 23 February 1950 1951 →
All 12 Northern Ireland seats in the House of Commons
Turnout	77.4% (10.0 pp)

On 23 February 1950, the 1950 United Kingdom general election was held in Northern Ireland, to elect all 625 members of the House of Commons, including the 12 Northern Ireland seats.

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The Representation of the People Act 1948 reorganised constituencies. As a result of the Act, all Members of Parliament, including those in Northern Ireland, were to only be elected single-seat constituencies using first-past-the-post voting, ending the two-seat constituencies which had been in place till then. The university constituency of Queen's University of Belfast was also abolished.

In the election as a whole, the Labour Party led by Clement Attlee as Prime Minister was returned with a narrow majority, while the Conservative Party, which included the Ulster Unionists, led by Sir Winston Churchill, continued in opposition.

Affiliation		Candidates
	Ulster Unionist Party	12
	Northern Ireland Labour Party	5
	Nationalist	2
	Irish Labour	2
	Independent Republican (Ireland)	1
	Sinn Féin	1
Total		23

Party^[1]^[2]		Seats					Aggregate votes
Party^[1]^[2]		Total	Gains	Losses	Net	Of all (%)	Total	Of all (%)	Difference
	UUP	10	1	0	1	83.3	352,334	62.8	4.6
	Nationalist	2	0	0		16.7	65,211	11.6	0.4
	NI Labour	0	0	0		—	67,816	12.1	0.3
	Labour	0	New			—	52,715	9.4	New
	Ind. Republican	0	New			—	21,880	3.9	New
	Sinn Féin	0	Did not stand in 1945			—	1,482	0.3	N/a
	Ind. Unionist	0	N/a		1	—	0	0.0	7.5
	Independent Labour	0	N/a		1	—	0	0.0	6.7
	Commonwealth Labour	0	N/a			—	0	0.0	3.1
Total		12			1	100.0	561,438	100.0	0.0
Registered voters, and turnout							866,421^[3]	77.4^[4]	10.0

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