Northern Ireland general election, 1958
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All 52 seats to the Northern Ireland House of Commons 27 seats were needed for a majority |
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![]() Election results by constituency.
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The Northern Ireland general election, 1958 was held on 20 March 1958. Like all previous elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland, it produced a large majority for the Ulster Unionist Party.
Results
Northern Ireland General Election 1958 | |||||||||||||||
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Candidates | Votes | ||||||||||||||
Party | Standing | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | ||||||
UUP | 46 | 37 | 3 | 4 | - 1 | 71.2 | 44.0 | 106,177 | -4.6 | ||||||
NI Labour | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | + 4 | 7.7 | 15.8 | 38,093 | +3.0 | ||||||
Nationalist | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 36,013 | +4.1 | ||||||
Independent Unionist | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6.8 | 16,537 | N/A | |||||||
Independent Labour | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | - 1 | 0.0 | 3.1 | 7,544 | +0.6 | ||||||
Republican Labour | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.9 | 3.1 | 7,510 | +0.8 | ||||||
Irish Labour | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | - 1 | 3.0 | 7,321 | -2.1 | |||||||
Independent Nationalist | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | + 1 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 5,168 | N/A | ||||||
Independent Protestant Unionist | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | 4,704 | N/A | |||||||
Ind. Labour Group | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | + 1 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 4,683 | N/A | ||||||
Independent | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 4,231 | +1.1 | ||||||
Independent Irish Labour | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 2,761 | -2.5 | |||||||
Liberal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 759 | N/A |
Electorate: 891,064 (359,816 in contested seats); Turnout: 67.1% (241,501).
Votes summary
Seats summary
References
See also
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