Queen's University of Belfast | |
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Former University Constituency for the Parliament of Northern Ireland | |
![]() Queen's University of Belfast shown within Northern Ireland | |
Former constituency | |
Created | 1921 |
Abolished | 1969 |
Election method | Single transferable vote |
Queen's University of Belfast was a university constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 until 1969. It returned four MPs, using proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote. In 1969 the constituency was abolished under the reforms carried out by the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill.
The constituency was created by the Government of Ireland Act 1920 and its four MPs were elected by the graduates of Queen's University of Belfast.
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. [1] All those elected were on the roll of the Second Dáil, but as no Sinn Féin MP was elected for Queen's University, it was not represented there. [2]
Election | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | ||||
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MPs (1921) | John Campbell | UUP | John Hanna Robb | UUP | Robert James Johnstone | UUP | Hugh Morrison | UUP | ||||
MPs (1929) | Robert Corkey | UUP | Robert McNeill | Ind U | ||||||||
MPs (1935) | Arthur Brownlow Mitchell | UUP | ||||||||||
MPs (1938) | John MacDermott | UUP | ||||||||||
MPs (1938) | Howard Stevenson | UUP | ||||||||||
MPs (1942) | William Lyle | UUP | ||||||||||
MPs (1943) | John W. Renshaw | UUP | ||||||||||
MPs (1944) | Herbert Quin | UUP | ||||||||||
MPs (1945) | Frederick McSorley | Independent | Irene Calvert | Independent | ||||||||
MPs 1948 | Samuel Irwin | UUP | ||||||||||
MPs (1949) | Eileen M. Hickey | Independent | William Lyle | UUP | ||||||||
MPs (1949) | Frederick Lloyd-Dodd | UUP | ||||||||||
MPs (1953) | Elizabeth Maconachie | UUP | ||||||||||
MPs (1958) | Charles Stewart | Independent | ||||||||||
MPs (1961) | Sheelagh Murnaghan | Ulster Liberal | ||||||||||
MPs (1962) | Ian McClure | UUP | ||||||||||
MPs (1966) | Robert Porter | UUP |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
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1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
UUP | John Campbell | 43.35 | 835 | |||
UUP | John Hanna Robb | 19.11 | 368 | 438 | ||
UUP | Professor Robert James Johnstone | 14.49 | 279 | 602 | ||
UUP | Hugh Smith Morrison | 12.62 | 243 | 296 | 564 | |
Sinn Féin | Sean B. Dolan | 10.44 | 201 | 204 | 204 | |
Electorate: 2,528 Valid: 1,926 Quota: 386 Turnout: 76.19% |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
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1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
UUP | John Hanna Robb | 24.9 | 528 | |||
UUP | Robert Corkey | 24.0 | 510 | |||
Ind U | Robert McNeill | 20.8 | 441 | |||
UUP | Robert James Johnstone | 16.0 | 340 | 397 | 438 | |
UUP | Arthur Brownlow Mitchell | 14.2 | 302 | 348 | 392 | |
Electorate: 3,324 Valid: 2,121 Quota: 425 Turnout: 63.8% |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||
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1 | 2 | ||||
UUP | Robert James Johnstone | 29.5 | 695 | ||
UUP | Robert Corkey | 21.7 | 512 | ||
UUP | John Hanna Robb | 19.1 | 451 | 472 | |
Ind U | Robert McNeill | 15.6 | 368 | 604 | |
Independent | Frederick McSorley | 14.0 | 331 | 337 | |
Electorate: 3,800 Valid: 2,357 Quota: 472 Turnout: 62.0% |
Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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UUP | Robert Corkey | 608 | 24.8 | 1 | 1 | |
UUP | Robert James Johnstone | 600 | 24.5 | 2 | 1 | |
UUP | Arthur Brownlow Mitchell | 369 | 14.7 | 3 | 5 | |
Independent | Frederick McSorley | 359 | 5 | |||
Ind U | S. Sims | 259 | 10.6 | 3 | ||
UUP | John MacDermott | 253 | 10.3 | 4 | 5 | |
Turnout | 2,448 | 61.1 | – 0.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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UUP | Herbert Quin | 1,178 | 53.6 | -20.7 | |
Independent | Irene Calvert | 1,020 | 46.4 | New | |
Majority | 158 | 71.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 2,198 | 46.7 | – 14.4 | ||
UUP hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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Independent | Frederick McSorley | 649 | 21.6 | 1 | 1 | |
UUP | Howard Stevenson | 580 | 19.3 | 2 | 1 | |
Independent | Irene Calvert | 570 | 18.9 | 3 | 1 | |
UUP | Herbert Quin | 535 | 17.8 | 4 | 3 | |
UUP | E. B. Wallace | 286 | 9.5 | 3 | ||
UUP | William Lyle | 279 | 9.3 | 3 | ||
Ind U | S. Sims | 109 | 3.6 | 2 | ||
Turnout | 3,008 | 59.1 | – 2.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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UUP | Samuel Irwin | 2,735 | 70.8 | +13.9 | |
Independent | Eileen M. Hickey | 1,126 | 29.2 | New | |
Majority | 1,609 | 41.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,861 | 57.4 | – 1.7 | ||
UUP hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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UUP | Samuel Irwin | 1,662 | 31.7 | 1 | 1 | |
Independent | Eileen M. Hickey | 1,073 | 20.5 | 2 | 1 | |
Independent | Irene Calvert | 955 | 18.2 | 3 | 3 | |
UUP | E. B. Wallace | 620 | 11.8 | 3 | ||
UUP | William Lyle | 588 | 11.2 | 4 | 3 | |
UUP | Howard Stevenson | 339 | 6.5 | 2 | ||
Turnout | 5,237 | 75.0 | + 15.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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UUP | Frederick Lloyd-Dodd | 2,100 | 54.0 | -7.2 | |
Ind U | N. S. Dickson | 1,312 | 33.7 | New | |
Independent | E. Reid | 479 | 12.3 | New | |
Majority | 749 | 19.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,891 | 54.2 | – 20.8 | ||
UUP hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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UUP | Samuel Irwin | 1,840 | 32.9 | 1 | 1 | |
Independent | Eileen M. Hickey | 1,206 | 21.6 | 2 | 1 | |
UUP | Elizabeth Maconachie | 940 | 16.8 | 4 | 2 | |
UUP | Frederick Lloyd-Dodd | 706 | 12.6 | 3 | 2 | |
Independent | R. Appleton | 539 | 9.6 | 2 | ||
NI Labour | Sam Napier | 297 | 5.3 | 2 | ||
Turnout | 5,586 | 63.7 | – 11.3 |
Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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UUP | Samuel Irwin | 1,640 | 28.3 | 1 | 1 | |
Independent | Charles Stewart | 1,218 | 21.0 | 2 | 1 | |
UUP | Elizabeth Maconachie | 1,131 | 19.5 | 3 | 2 | |
Ulster Liberal | Albert McElroy | 759 | 13.1 | 4 | ||
UUP | Frederick Lloyd-Dodd | 706 | 12.2 | 4 | 4 | |
NI Labour | S. J. Watt | 345 | 5.9 | 2 | ||
Turnout | 5,799 | 52.9 | – 10.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Ulster Liberal | Sheelagh Murnaghan | 2,622 | 52.5 | +39.4 | |
UUP | Samuel Rodgers | 2,370 | 47.5 | -12.5 | |
Majority | 252 | 5.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,992 | 45.1 | – 7.8 | ||
Ulster Liberal gain from UUP | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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UUP | Ian McClure | 2,040 | 30.0 | 1 | 1 | |
Ulster Liberal | Sheelagh Murnaghan | 1,698 | 24.9 | 2 | 1 | |
UUP | Elizabeth Maconachie | 1,252 | 18.4 | 3 | 2 | |
Independent | Charles Stewart | 1,220 | 17.9 | 4 | 3 | |
UUP | H. R. Brown | 597 | 8.8 | 3 | ||
Turnout | 6,807 | 53.8 | + 0.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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UUP | Robert Porter | 3,717 | 55.6 | N/A | |
Ulster Liberal | Albert McElroy | 2,968 | 44.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 749 | 11.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 6,685 | 48.7 | N/A | ||
UUP gain from Independent | Swing | N/A | |||
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