Belfast South and Mid Down (UK Parliament constituency)

Belfast South and Mid Down
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Belfast South and Mid Down in Northern Ireland
Districts of Northern Ireland	Belfast Lisburn and Castlereagh Newry, Mourne and Down
Borough	Belfast
Current constituency
Created	2024
Member of Parliament	Claire Hanna (SDLP)
Seats	1
Created from	Belfast South Lagan Valley Strangford

Belfast South and Mid Down is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. It was created in 2024 as a successor to Belfast South. It contains central Belfast, Finaghy, Drumbo, and Carryduff.

The MP since 2024 ^[update] is Claire Hanna of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). ^[1] Hanna had been MP for Belfast South since the 2019 general election. ^[2]

Boundaries

Map of boundaries from 2024

Following the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, the seat of Belfast South was subject to boundary changes and renamed Belfast South and Mid Down. The redrawn constituency contained 90.8% of the population of the former Belfast South. ^[3] It was first contested at the 2024 general election. ^{[4] [5]}

The constituency comprises: ^[6]

In Belfast, the wards of Belvoir, Blackstaff, Central, Finaghy, Malone, Musgrave, Ormeau, Ravenhill, Rosetta, Stranmillis, Upper Malone, and Windsor;

in Lisburn and Castlereagh, the wards of Beechill, Cairnshill, Carryduff East, Carryduff West, Drumbo, Galwally, Knockbracken, Moneyreagh, and Newtownbreda; and

in Newry, Mourne and Down, the ward of Saintfield.

Members of Parliament

Election	Member	Party
2024	Claire Hanna		SDLP

Election results

Elections in the 2020s

2024 general election: Belfast South and Mid Down ^{[7] [8] [9]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SDLP	Claire Hanna	21,345	49.1	−4.2
	Alliance	Kate Nicholl	8,839	20.3	+4.9
	DUP	Tracy Kelly	6,859	15.8	−9.6
	UUP	Michael Henderson	2,653	6.1	+2.5
	TUV	Dan Boucher	2,218	5.1	New
	Green (NI)	Áine Groogan	1,577	3.6	+3.4
Majority			12,506	28.8	+0.9
Turnout			43,491	58.2
Registered electors			74,749
	SDLP win (new seat)

Elections in the 2010s

2019 notional result ^[10]

Party excl. candidate		Vote	%
	Social Democratic and Labour Party	25,409	53.3
	Democratic Unionist Party	12,087	25.4
	Alliance	7,348	15.4
	Ulster Unionist Party	1,703	3.6
	Aontú	568	1.2
	Sinn Féin	247	0.5
	Conservatives	167	0.4
	Greens	73	0.2
	People Before Profit	67	0.1
Majority		13,322	27.9
Turnout		47,669	66.2
Electorate		71,978

References

1. "MPs representing Belfast South and Mid Down". UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 20 May 2025. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
2. "Claire Hanna". UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 9 July 2025. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
3. "Belfast South and Mid Down – Overlaps". UK Parliament.
4. Preston, Allan (1 April 2022). "Sinn Fein defend proposals to redraw Belfast's electoral boundaries". Belfast Telegraph. ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved 18 April 2023.
5. "Final Recommendations Report of the 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituencies - PDF". Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland. 28 June 2023. Archived from the original on 30 June 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
6. "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023 (Statutory Instrument 2023 no. 1230)" (PDF). The Stationery Office. 15 November 2023. pp. 183–4. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 July 2024. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
7. "Belfast South and Mid Down – Election result". UK Parliament.
8. "Belfast South and Mid Down: Seat Details". Electoral Calculus . Archived from the original on 14 June 2025. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
9. "Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll". Electoral Office for Northern Ireland. 7 June 2024. Archived from the original on 7 June 2024. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
10. "Notional results for a UK general election on 12 December 2019". Rallings & Thrasher, Professor David Denver (Scotland), Nicholas Whyte (NI) for Sky News, PA, BBC News and ITV News. UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 25 March 2025. Retrieved 11 March 2025.

External links

• Belfast South and Mid Down UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK