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In OTL Northern Ireland was given a Parliament in 1921. It is not clear that there had been much of a demand for one.

WI Northern Ireland had been treated in the same was as England Scotland and Wales.

It is likely that Northern Ireland would have had more seats than the 12 it had from 1922 to 1983 (+ the unversity seat up to 1945) That might just have changed the UK general election results in 1950 and 1964.and the two in 74

On the hand there had been an 'orange' tradition in Scotland (especially Glasgow) and Liverpool which had given Conservatives many working class votes.

That declined rapidly from 1959 to 1970.

In OTL Labour nearly won Belfast East in 1966.

I wonder if Northern Ireland might have ended up with more 'normal' politics.

Any thoughts?
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