Carrick | |
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Former County constituency for the Parliament of Northern Ireland | |
Former constituency | |
Created | 1929 |
Abolished | 1973 |
Election method | First past the post |
Carrick was a single-member county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.
This was a division of County Antrim. Before 1929 it was part of the seven-member Antrim constituency. The constituency elected one MP to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland from 1929 until the Parliament was temporarily suspended in 1972, and then formally abolished in 1973.
In terms of the then local government areas the constituency in 1929 comprised parts of the rural districts of Antrim, Belfast and Larne. The division also included the whole of the urban districts of Ballyclare and Carrickfergus.
After boundary changes in 1969, the constituency included parts of the rural districts of Antrim and Larne, the borough of Carrickfergus, the urban district of Ballyclare and part of the urban district of Carrickfergus.
Election | Member | Party | ||
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1929 | John Fawcett Gordon | Ulster Unionist Party | ||
1933 | ||||
1943 | John Dermot Campbell | |||
1945 | Lancelot Curran | |||
1945 | ||||
1949 | ||||
1950 | Alexander Hunter | |||
1953 | ||||
1958 | ||||
1962 | ||||
1965 | Austin Ardill | |||
1969 | Anne Dickson | |||
1973 | Constituency abolished |
(1921–72) |
The parliamentary representatives of the division were elected using the first past the post system.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Ulster Unionist | John Fawcett Gordon | Unopposed | N/A | ||
Ulster Unionist win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Ulster Unionist | John Fawcett Gordon | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Ulster Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ulster Unionist | John Fawcett Gordon | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Ulster Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Ulster Unionist | John Dermot Campbell | 5,612 | 64.30 | N/A | |
NI Labour | William Calwell | 3,116 | 35.70 | New | |
Majority | 2,496 | 28.60 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 21,716 | 40.19 | N/A | ||
Ulster Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Ulster Unionist | Lancelot Curran | 6,905 | 71.58 | N/A | |
NI Labour | William Calwell | 2,741 | 28.42 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,164 | 43.17 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 21,069 | 45.78 | N/A | ||
Ulster Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Ulster Unionist | Lancelot Curran | 9,387 | 70.26 | N/A | |
NI Labour | William Calwell | 3,973 | 29.74 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,414 | 40.52 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 19,811 | 67.44 | N/A | ||
Ulster Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ulster Unionist | Lancelot Curran | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Ulster Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Ulster Unionist | Alexander Hunter | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Ulster Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Ulster Unionist | Alexander Hunter | 9,726 | 66.73 | N/A | |
NI Labour | Vivian Simpson | 4,849 | 33.27 | New | |
Majority | 4,877 | 33.46 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 26,063 | 55.92 | N/A | ||
Ulster Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Ulster Unionist | Alexander Hunter | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Ulster Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Ulster Unionist | Alexander Hunter | 10,397 | 55.71 | N/A | |
NI Labour | Bob Kidd | 8,265 | 44.29 | New | |
Majority | 2,132 | 11.42 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 37,059 | 50.36 | N/A | ||
Ulster Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Ulster Unionist | Austin Ardill | 12,129 | 66.37 | ||
NI Labour | Bob Kidd | 6,146 | 33.63 | ||
Majority | 5,983 | 32.74 | |||
Turnout | 40,031 | 45.65 | |||
Ulster Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Ulster Unionist | Anne Dickson | 9,529 | 64.49 | ||
Ind. Unionist | James Craig | 5,246 | 35.51 | New | |
Majority | 4,283 | 28.99 | |||
Turnout | 22,905 | 64.51 | |||
Ulster Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
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