Northern Ireland general election, 1962

31 May 1962

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	Tom Boyd
Party	UUP	Nationalist	NI Labour
Leader since	1 May 1943	1958	1958
Leader's seat	Lisnaskea	East Tyrone	Belfast Pottinger
Last election	37 seats (44.0%)	7 seats (14.9%)	4 seats (15.8%)
Seats won	34	9	4
Seat change	3	2	0
Popular vote	147,629	45,860	76,842
Percentage	48.8%	15.1%	25.4%
Swing	4.8%	0.2%	9.6%

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, 1962 was held on 31 May 1962. 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 1962
		Candidates						Votes
Party		Standing	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	№	Net %
	UUP	45	34	0	2	- 2	65.3	48.8	147,629	+4.8
	NI Labour	14	4	0	0	0	7.7	25.4	76,842	+9.6
	Nationalist	9	9	2	0	+ 2	17.3	15.1	45,860	+0.2
	Liberal	4	1	1	0	+ 1	1.9	3.6	11,005	+3.3
	Republican Labour	1	1	0	0	0	1.9	2.5	7,662	-0.6
	Independent Labour	2	0	0	0	0	0.0	2.3	6,946	+0.3
	Irish Labour	1	1	1	0	+ 1	1.9	1.1	3,288	-1.9
	Ind. Labour Group	2	1	0	0	0	1.9	0.8	2,343	-1.2
	Independent	1	1	0	0	0	1.9	0.4	1,220	-1.4
	World Socialist	1	0	0	0	0		0.0	66	N/A

All parties shown. Electorate: 903,596 (458,838 in contested seats); Turnout: 66.0% (302,681).

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	1924 1946 1967 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2011 2014

Referendums	1973 1998

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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