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1945 general election · Northern Ireland

Down: 1945 general election result

Down returned 2 MPs at the 1945 general election. Votes by party, electorate and turnout.

Turnout
48.7%70,880 valid votes
Electorate
145,524

Down elected 2 MPs. The source gives votes by party (not by candidate) for multi-member seats, so the seats are not split by party here.

Result
PartyVotesShareShare bar
Others46,73265.9%
Conservative24,14834.1%
Valid votes70,880

No change figures: the constituency’s boundaries changed after the 1935 election.

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Questions and answers

Who won Down in 1945?

Down elected 2 MPs. Our source gives the votes by party rather than by candidate for two-member seats, so the split of seats is not shown here.

Official results House of Commons Library, General election results from 1918 to 2019. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. How we use this data

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