| Belfast North | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency for the Parliament of Northern Ireland | |
 Belfast North shown within Northern Ireland | |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1921 |
| Abolished | 1929 |
| Election method | Single transferable vote |
Belfast North was a borough constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1929. It returned four MPs, using proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote.
Belfast North was created by the Government of Ireland Act 1920 and contained the Clifton, Duncairn and Shankill wards of the County Borough of Belfast. The House of Commons (Method of Voting and Redistribution of Seats) Act (Northern Ireland) 1929 divided the constituency into four constituencies elected under first past the post: Belfast Clifton, Belfast Duncairn, Belfast Oldpark and Belfast Shankill constituencies. [1]
In May 1921, Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the self-declared Irish Republic run by Sinn Féin, passed a resolution declaring that elections to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland would be used as the election for the Second Dáil. [2] All those elected were on the roll of the Second Dáil, but as no Sinn Féin MP was elected for Belfast North, it was not represented there. [3]
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Belfast North was a predominantly Unionist area with considerable pockets of labour strength. It returned four Unionists in 1921, but in 1925, it returned only two official Unionists, plus one independent Unionist and a Labour member.
| Election | Member (Party) | Member (Party) | Member (Party) | Member (Party) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MPs (1921) | Lloyd Campbell (Ulster Unionist Party) | Samuel McGuffin (Ulster Unionist Party) | William Grant (Ulster Unionist Party) | Robert McKeown (Ulster Unionist Party) | ||||
| MPs (1925) | Tommy Henderson (Independent Unionist) | Sam Kyle (Northern Ireland Labour Party) | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| UUP | Lloyd Campbell | 32.3 | 12,875 | |||
| UUP | Samuel McGuffin | 29.1 | 11,596 | |||
| UUP | William Grant | 15.4 | 6,148 | 9,880 | ||
| UUP | Robert McKeown | 8.9 | 3,562 | 4,676 | 8,263 | |
| Sinn Féin | Michael Carolan | 8.1 | 3,235 | 3,268 | 3,275 | |
| Nationalist | F. P. Harkin | 3.8 | 1,509 | 1,516 | 1,519 | |
| Independent | J. B. Wallace | 2.3 | 926 | 944 | 972 | |
| Electorate: 43,194 Valid: 39,851 Quota: 7,971 Turnout: 92.3% | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Ind. Unionist | Tommy Henderson | 30.7 | 10,306 | ||||
| UUP | William Grant | 19.7 | 6,610 | 6,934 | |||
| NI Labour | Sam Kyle | 17.6 | 5,915 | 7,650 | |||
| UUP | Lloyd Campbell | 16.1 | 5,421 | 5,952 | 6,163 | 7,026 | |
| UUP | John William Nixon | 12.1 | 4,068 | 4,951 | 5,471 | 6,021 | |
| UUP | H. T. Whitaker | 3.8 | 1,276 | 1,389 | 1,481 | ||
| Electorate: 47,228 Valid: 33,596 Quota: 6,720 Turnout: 71.1% | |||||||
Belfast North is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is John Finucane.
There were two elections in Ireland on 24 May 1921, following the establishment of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. New constituencies were established for both parliaments. A resolution of Dáil Éireann on 10 May 1921 held that these elections were to be regarded as elections to Dáil Éireann and that all those returned at these elections be regarded as members of Dáil Éireann. According to this theory of Irish republicanism, these elections provided the membership of the Second Dáil. The Second Dáil lasted 297 days.
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