Northern Ireland general election, 1958

20 March 1958

All 52 seats to the Northern Ireland House of Commons 27 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Basil Brooke	Joe Stewart	None
Party	UUP	Nationalist	NI Labour
Leader since	1 May 1943	1958	N/A
Leader's seat	Lisnaskea	East Tyrone	None
Last election	38 seats (48.6%)	7 seats (10.8%)	0 seats (12.1%)
Seats won	37	7	4
Seat change	1	0	4
Popular vote	106,177	36,013	38,093
Percentage	44.0%	14.9%	15.8%
Swing	4.6%	4.1%	3.0%

Election results by constituency.

Prime Minister before election

Basil Brooke
UUP

Elected Prime Minister

Basil Brooke
UUP

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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
		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

Popular vote

Ulster Unionist			43.97%
Independent Unionist			6.85%
Labour			15.77%
Nationalist Party			14.91%
Independent Labour			5.06%
Republican Labour			3.11%
Irish Labour			3.03%
Independent Nationalist			2.14%
Independent Protestant Unionist			1.95%
Independent Irish Labour			1.14%
Ulster Liberal			0.31%
Independent			1.75%

Seats summary

Parliamentary seats

Ulster Unionist			71.15%
Labour			7.69%
Nationalist Party			13.46%
Independent Labour			1.92%
Republican Labour			1.92%
Independent Nationalist			1.92%
Independent			1.92%

References

Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results

Elections and referendums in Northern Ireland

NI general elections	1921 1925 1929 1933 1938 1945 1949 1953 1958 1962 1965 1969

Ad-hoc elections	1973 1975 1982 1996

Assembly elections	1998 2003 2007 2011 2016

European elections	1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014

Local elections	1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2011 2014

Referendums	1973 1975 1998 2011

UK general elections	2001 2005 2010 2015

See also: Elections in the Kingdom of Ireland Elections in Ireland as part of the UK UK elections

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Northern Ireland general election, 1958

Results

Votes summary

Seats summary

References

See also