Northern Ireland Prime Minister Lord Brookeborough spoke to Ernest Strathdee of Ulster Television the day after the Northern Irish General Election of 1962. He gave a very upbeat assessment of the results which saw his ruling Ulster Unionist Party storm to an overwhelming victory with 34 of the 52 seats, despite losing three seats. For political fans interested in the results, the
Nationalist Party gained two seats to reach a total of nine, while the Northern
Ireland Labour Party was a clear second in the popular vote but only managed to
convert that vote into four seats, all based in Belfast.
Brookeborough had
been Prime Minister for nineteen years at this point and was happy with the
continued public endorsement despite a worsening economic outlook for Northern
Irish industry. He claimed that, in regard to his determination to carry on, he
had never been in better health. However, he would be gone nine months later,
forced to resign due to deteriorating health.