1959 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

none January 2019 January 2019 1959 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland parliamentary no 1955 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland 1955 8 October 1959 1964 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland 1964 All 12 Northern Ireland seats in the House of Commons 65.9% (8.2 pp) Sir Basil Brooke, 10 February 1941.png 120 120 160 0 0 Sir Basil Brooke, Bt Ulster Unionist Party Conservative Party (UK) 1943 Sat in Stormont 12 445,013 77.2% 2 8.5 pp Sinn Féin SF Paddy McLogan 1954 Sinn Féin Did not stand 0 63,415 11.0% 2 12.6 pp On 8 October 1959, the 1959 United Kingdom general election was held in Northern Ireland, to elect all 630 members of the House of Commons, including the 12 Northern Ireland seats in single-seat constituencies using first-past-the-post. The election took place towards the end of the IRA border campaign, which had seen the IRA launch a series of attacks and bombings against Northern Irish police and infrastructure. The launch of the campaign had in part been encouraged by the results of the last UK general election in Northern Ireland, which had seen Sinn Féin gain 2 seats, and receive nearly a quarter of the vote. The Ulster Unionists won all the seats in region. This was a net gain from the result at the previous election, although they held all seats in the region before the 1959 election was called: in Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Philip Clarke was unseated by petition and Robert Grosvenor was declared elected to the seat; in Mid Ulster, George Forrest had been elected in a by-election as an Independent Unionist, but subsequently joined the Ulster Unionists. In the election as a whole, the Conservative Party, which included the Ulster Unionists, led by Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister, continued in a majority government. Candidates Affiliation CandidatesUlster Unionist Party 12Sinn Féin 12Northern Ireland Labour Party 3Independent Labour Group 1Ulster Liberal Party 1Total 29 Results +Partyhttps://electionsireland.org/results/general/ni/1959.cfm Elections to the United Kingdom Parliament held in Northern Ireland: General Election 1959 ElectionsIreland.org 19 January 2019 19 January 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190119174506/https://electionsireland.org/results/general/ni/1959.cfm livehttps://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/fw59.htm The 1959 Westminster Elections in Northern Ireland ARK: Northern Ireland Elections 19 January 2019 23 June 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180623133034/http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/fw59.htm liveSeatsAggregate Votes Total Gains Losses Net Of all (%) Total Of all (%) Difference Ulster Unionist Party 12 2 0 2 100.0 445,013 77.2 8.5 Sinn Féin 0 0 2 2 — 63,415 11.0 12.6 Northern Ireland Labour Party 0 0 0 — 44,370 7.7 2.2 Independent Labour Group 0 colspan="3" New — 20,062 3.5 New Ulster Liberal Party 0 colspan="3" New — 3,253 0.6 New Total 12 576,113 65.9https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7529/CBP-7529.pdf UK Election Statistics: 1918-2023, A Century of Elections Cracknell Richard Uberoi Elise Burton Matthew 9 August 2023 House of Commons Library 29 4 August 2026 8.2 MPs elected Constituency Party MPAntrim North Ulster Unionist PartyHenry ClarkAntrim South Ulster Unionist PartyKnox CunninghamArmagh Ulster Unionist PartyJohn MaginnisBelfast East Ulster Unionist PartyStanley McMasterBelfast North Ulster Unionist PartyStratton MillsBelfast South Ulster Unionist PartyDavid CampbellBelfast West Ulster Unionist PartyPatricia McLaughlinDown North Ulster Unionist PartyGeorge CurrieDown South Ulster Unionist PartyLawrence OrrFermanagh and South Tyrone Ulster Unionist PartyRobert GrosvenorLondonderry Ulster Unionist PartyRobin Chichester-ClarkMid Ulster Ulster Unionist PartyGeorge Forrest See also 1959 United Kingdom general election in England 1959 United Kingdom general election in Scotland 1959 United Kingdom general election in Wales References #Northern Ireland 1959 Category:1959 elections in Northern Ireland Category:October 1959 in the United Kingdom