Belfast Ormeau (UK Parliament constituency)

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Belfast Ormeau
Former borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1918–1922
Replaced by Belfast South
Created from Belfast South

Ormeau, a division of Belfast, was a UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1922, using the first past the post electoral system.

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Boundaries and boundary changes

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918 from an area which had been in the Belfast South constituency. It comprised the eastern half of South Belfast, and contained the then Ormeau ward of Belfast Corporation. [1]

It was in use at the 1918 general election only, and under the Government of Ireland Act 1920 its area was again part of the Belfast South constituency, with effect at the 1922 general election.

Politics

The constituency was a strongly unionist area. This was evident in the very low performance by Sinn Féin in the 1918 election.

First Dáil

After the 1918 election, Sinn Féin invited all those elected for constituencies in Ireland to sit as TDs in Dáil Éireann rather than in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. [2] All those elected for Irish constituencies were included in the roll of the Dáil but only those elected for Sinn Féin sat in the First Dáil. [3] In May 1921, the Dáil 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 and that the First Dáil would be dissolved on the assembly of the new body. [4] The area of Belfast Ormeau would then have been represented in the Dáil by the four-seat constituency of Belfast South, which also returned no representatives for Sinn Féin.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1918 Thomas Moles Irish Unionist
1921 Ulster Unionist
1922 constituency abolished

Election

General Election 14 December 1918: Belfast Ormeau
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Irish Unionist Thomas Moles 7,46059.06
Ind U William John Stewart 4,83338.26
Sinn Féin James Joseph Dobbyn3382.68
Majority2,62720.80
Turnout 16,34377.29
Irish Unionist win (new seat)

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Notes

  1. ↑ Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918, Second Schedule, Part I
  2. ↑ "The inaugural public meeting of Dáil Éireann". Dáil 100. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  3. ↑ "3. AN ROLLA". Houses of the Oireachtas. 21 January 1919. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
  4. ↑ "Dáil Éireann debate - Tuesday, 10 May 1921 - PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT. - ELECTIONS". Houses of the Oireachtas. Retrieved 23 February 2019.

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