Belfast South (UK Parliament constituency)
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Belfast South | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Belfast South in Northern Ireland | |
Districts of Northern Ireland | Belfast, Castlereagh |
Electorate | 60,914 (March 2011) |
Borough | Belfast |
1922–2024 | |
Seats | 1 |
Created from | Belfast Cromac, Belfast Ormeau |
Replaced by | Belfast South and Mid Down |
1885–1918 | |
Seats | 1 |
Type of constituency | borough constituency |
Created from | Belfast |
Replaced by | Belfast Cromac, Belfast Ormeau |
Belfast South was a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons.
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat would be replaced by Belfast South and Mid Down, to be first contested at the 2024 United Kingdom general election.[1][2]
Boundaries
[edit]1885–1918: In the Borough of Belfast, that part of Cromac ward not in the constituency of Belfast East, that part of St. George's ward not in the constituency of Belfast West, and the townlands of Malone Lower and that part of Malone Upper within the parliamentary borough in the parish of Shankill.
1922–1974: The County Borough of Belfast wards of Cromac, Ormeau, and Windsor.
1974–1983: The County Borough of Belfast wards of Cromac, Ormeau, and Windsor, the District of Lisburn electoral divisions of Ardmore, Dunmurry, Finaghy, and Upper Malone, and the Rural District of Hillsborough electoral divisions of Breda and Edenderry.
1983–1997: The District of Belfast wards of Ballynafeigh, Cromac, Donegall, Finaghy, Malone, Ormeau, Rosetta, St George's, Stranmillis, University, Upper Malone, Willowfield, and Windsor.
1997–2010: The District of Belfast wards of Ballynafeigh, Blackstaff, Botanic, Finaghy, Malone, Musgrave, Ravenhill, Rosetta, Shaftesbury, Stranmillis, Upper Malone, Windsor, and Woodstock, and the District of Castlereagh wards of Beechill, Cairnshill, Galwally, Knockbracken, Minnowburn, and Newtownbreda.
2010–2024: The District of Belfast wards above and the District of Castlereagh wards as above plus Carryduff East, Carryduff West, Hillfoot, and Wynchurch.
The seat was created in 1922 when, as part of the establishment of the devolved Stormont Parliament for Northern Ireland, the number of MPs in the Westminster Parliament was drastically cut. The seat is centred on the Belfast City Council districts of Balmoral, Laganbank and Pottinger and also contains part of the district of Castlereagh.
Prior to the 2010 general election, the Boundary Commission proposed expanding Belfast South further into Castlereagh, taking in areas currently contained in both Strangford and Belfast East. This was strongly opposed by the DUP but supported by the Ulster Unionists. It was also one of the issues that generated the most negative comments in the written submissions with a petition representing half of Cregagh's residents opposing its move.
Following the local enquiries, the Boundary Commission proposed retaining the Cregagh ward in East Belfast while transferring instead the Hillfoot ward. These proposals were submitted as final recommendations and were put into force through the passing of the Northern Ireland Parliamentary Constituencies Order[3] in 2008.
History
[edit]In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Belfast South tended to elect 'rebel unionists' such as William Johnston, who famously defied a ban on Orange marches, and Thomas Sloan, founder of the Independent Orange Order.
Belfast South contains some of Belfast's most expensive residential districts as well as Queen's University Belfast. The overall tenor of the constituency is middle-class – young, trendy and cosmopolitan towards the city centre, with Northern Ireland's biggest concentrations of both students and ethnic minorities, and further out from the city centre it is settled and prosperous. Despite this, significant pockets of inner-city working class areas such as the Markets and a number of isolated suburban estates exist in the constituency.
There has been particularly rapid demographic change in Belfast South since around the year 2000. The 2011 census revealed that Belfast South consists of a slightly larger Catholic population than Protestant and while the constituency traditionally has had a unionist majority, the nationalist vote has now surpassed this in more recent elections. There have also been strong votes for other parties such as the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, Green Party, the Conservatives and the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition. The constituency has witnessed a steady series of candidates backed by groups who aspire to support the British Labour Party despite its prior ban on membership and organisation in Northern Ireland, though their results have been minimal. Until the 1990s the main focus of attention had been on contests between unionist candidates.
In the February 1974 general election the seat was won by Robert Bradford of the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party on a united anti-Sunningdale Agreement slate with the Ulster Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party. He defeated Rafton Pounder, the sitting Unionist MP who defended his seat as a Pro-Assembly Unionist. Bradford held the seat for the next seven years, though in February 1978 he and the rump of Vanguard reunited with the Ulster Unionists. At the end of 1981 Bradford was assassinated by the IRA in a Belfast community centre while hosting a political surgery.
The subsequent by-election garnered much interest as it was expected that the Democratic Unionist Party would take the seat, building on their steady rise which had seen them gain both Belfast North and Belfast East at the previous general election. However, the DUP came third, behind the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, and the UUP's candidate Martin Smyth won the seat, holding it until 2005. The by-election was extremely significant at the time in that it was the first at which the DUP tide ebbed.
In January 2005 Smyth announced that he would be retiring at the 2005 general election, raising speculation both as to whom the Ulster Unionists would field in succession to him and what effect a different candidate would have upon their share of the vote. The UUP selected Assembly member Michael McGimpsey, albeit with a highly controversial and bitter selection. McGimpsey was repudiated by many prominent Unionists, including both Smyth and former UUP leader James Molyneaux. The DUP selected Jimmy Spratt and offered an electoral pact to the UUP that would give each party a free run at one out of South Belfast and Fermanagh and South Tyrone. This offer was rejected by the UUP.
In the event, the DUP and UUP both fielded candidates which split the vote. The nationalist vote mainly went for the SDLP over Sinn Féin, with the result that the SDLP took the seat despite a majority of votes cast for unionist candidates.[4]
In 2010, Sinn Féin opted not to stand against the SDLP to avoid splitting the nationalist vote.[5] The SDLP won the seat with a majority of 6,000. This was the seat in which the Alliance Party had their second-best showing, polling 15% of the votes. Alasdair McDonnell retained the seat in May 2015, with only 24.5% of the vote, as Sinn Féin opted to stand. This is the smallest proportion of the vote a winning candidate has ever achieved in a UK general election.[6]
In 2017 the seat was won by Emma Little-Pengelly of the DUP[7] with Alasdair McDonnell losing his seat along with all other SDLP MPs in Northern Ireland.[8] This was won back for the SDLP by Claire Hanna in 2019, with Sinn Féin again opting not to stand.[9] This was the first time since 1987 that the winning candidate in the constituency had a majority of the vote.
Members of parliament
[edit]The member of parliament since the 2019 general election is Claire Hanna of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, succeeding Emma Little-Pengelly of the Democratic Unionist Party.
Election results
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/South_Belfast_Parlimentary.png/220px-South_Belfast_Parlimentary.png)
Elections in the 2010s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SDLP | Claire Hanna | 27,079 | 57.2 | +31.3 | |
DUP | Emma Little-Pengelly | 11,678 | 24.7 | –5.7 | |
Alliance | Paula Bradshaw | 6,786 | 14.3 | –3.9 | |
UUP | Michael Henderson | 1,259 | 2.7 | –0.8 | |
Aontú | Chris McHugh | 550 | 1.2 | New | |
Majority | 15,401 | 32.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 47,352 | 67.6 | +1.5 | ||
Registered electors | 70,047 | ||||
SDLP gain from DUP | Swing | +18.5 |
This seat saw the largest SDLP vote share and the largest increase in vote share for the party at the 2019 general election. This came as Sinn Féin did not contest the seat. It also saw the only fall in vote share for Alliance.[11]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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DUP | Emma Little-Pengelly | 13,299 | 30.4 | +8.2 | |
SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 11,303 | 25.9 | +1.4 | |
Alliance | Paula Bradshaw | 7,946 | 18.2 | +1.0 | |
Sinn Féin | Máirtín Ó Muilleoir | 7,143 | 16.3 | +2.4 | |
Green (NI) | Clare Bailey | 2,241 | 5.1 | –0.6 | |
UUP | Michael Henderson | 1,527 | 3.5 | –5.6 | |
NI Conservatives | Clare Salier | 246 | 0.6 | –0.9 | |
Majority | 1,996 | 4.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 43,699 | 66.1 | +6.1 | ||
Registered electors | 66,105 | ||||
DUP gain from SDLP | Swing | +3.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 9,560 | 24.5 | –16.5 | |
DUP | Jonathan Bell | 8,654 | 22.2 | –1.5 | |
Alliance | Paula Bradshaw | 6,711 | 17.2 | +2.2 | |
Sinn Féin | Máirtín Ó Muilleoir | 5,402 | 13.9 | New | |
UUP | Rodney McCune | 3,549 | 9.1 | –8.2 | |
Green (NI) | Clare Bailey | 2,238 | 5.7 | +2.7 | |
UKIP | Bob Stoker | 1,900 | 4.9 | New | |
NI Conservatives | Ben Manton | 582 | 1.5 | New | |
Workers' Party | Lily Kerr | 361 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 906 | 2.3 | –15.0 | ||
Turnout | 38,957 | 60.0 | +2.6 | ||
Registered electors | 64,927 | ||||
SDLP hold | Swing | –7.5 |
The SDLP won the lowest winning share of the vote in modern British history.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 14,026 | 41.0 | +8.7 | |
DUP | Jimmy Spratt | 8,100 | 23.7 | –5.9 | |
UCU-NF | Paula Bradshaw[19] | 5,910 | 17.3 | –4.9 | |
Alliance | Anna Lo | 5,114 | 15.0 | +7.7 | |
Green (NI) | Adam McGibbon | 1,036 | 3.0 | New | |
Majority | 5,926 | 17.3 | +13.4 | ||
Turnout | 34,186 | 57.4 | –5.1 | ||
Registered electors | 59,524 | ||||
SDLP hold | Swing | +6.7 |
Elections in the 2000s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 10,339 | 32.3 | +1.7 | |
DUP | Jimmy Spratt | 9,104 | 28.4 | New | |
UUP | Michael McGimpsey | 7,263 | 22.7 | –22.1 | |
Sinn Féin | Alex Maskey | 2,882 | 9.0 | +1.4 | |
Alliance | Geraldine Rice | 2,012 | 6.3 | +0.9 | |
Rainbow Dream Ticket | Lynda Gilby | 235 | 0.7 | +0.4 | |
Workers' Party | Paddy Lynn | 193 | 0.6 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 1,235 | 3.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 32,028 | 60.8 | –3.1 | ||
Registered electors | 52,218 | ||||
SDLP gain from UUP | Swing | –13.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Martin Smyth | 17,008 | 44.8 | +8.8 | |
SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 11,609 | 30.6 | +6.3 | |
NI Women's Coalition | Monica McWilliams | 2,968 | 7.8 | +4.8 | |
Sinn Féin | Alex Maskey | 2,894 | 7.6 | +2.5 | |
Alliance | Geraldine Rice | 2,042 | 5.4 | –7.5 | |
PUP | Dawn Purvis | 1,112 | 2.9 | –11.5 | |
Workers' Party | Paddy Lynn | 204 | 0.5 | –0.2 | |
Rainbow Dream Ticket | Rainbow George Weiss | 115 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 5,399 | 14.2 | +2.5 | ||
Turnout | 37,952 | 63.9 | +1.7 | ||
Registered electors | 59,436 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing | +1.3 |
Elections in the 1990s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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UUP | Martin Smyth | 14,201 | 36.0 | –18.7 | |
SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 9,601 | 24.3 | +10.1 | |
PUP | David Ervine | 5,687 | 14.4 | New | |
Alliance | Steve McBride | 5,112 | 12.9 | –2.8 | |
Sinn Féin | Seán Hayes | 2,019 | 5.1 | +2.6 | |
NI Women's Coalition | Annie Campbell | 1,204 | 3.0 | New | |
NI Conservatives | Myrtle Boal | 962 | 2.4 | –9.3 | |
Independent Labour | Niall Cusack | 292 | 0.7 | New | |
Workers' Party | Paddy Lynn | 286 | 0.7 | New | |
Natural Law | James Anderson | 120 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 4,600 | 11.7 | –19.3 | ||
Turnout | 39,484 | 62.2 | –2.3 | ||
Registered electors | 63,633 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing | –13.4 |
1997 Changes are compared to the 1992 notional results shown below.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | N/A | 23,258 | 52.7 | N/A | |
Alliance | N/A | 6,921 | 15.7 | N/A | |
SDLP | N/A | 6,266 | 14.2 | N/A | |
NI Conservatives | N/A | 5,154 | 11.7 | N/A | |
Others | N/A | 1,437 | 3.3 | N/A | |
Sinn Féin | N/A | 1,116 | 2.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 16,337 | 37.0 | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Martin Smyth | 16,336 | 48.6 | –9.2 | |
SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 6,266 | 18.7 | +5.6 | |
Alliance | John Montgomery | 5,054 | 15.0 | –6.3 | |
NI Conservatives | Andrew Fee | 3,356 | 10.0 | New | |
Sinn Féin | Seán Hayes | 1,123 | 3.3 | +0.1 | |
Labour and Trade Union | Peter Hadden | 875 | 2.6 | New | |
Workers' Party | Paddy Lynn | 362 | 1.1 | –3.6 | |
Natural Law | Teresa Mullen | 212 | 0.6 | New | |
Majority | 10,070 | 29.9 | –6.6 | ||
Turnout | 33,584 | 64.5 | +4.2 | ||
Registered electors | 52,050 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1980s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Martin Smyth | 18,917 | 57.8 | +7.8 | |
Alliance | David Cook | 6,963 | 21.3 | –2.6 | |
SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 4,268 | 13.1 | +4.5 | |
Workers' Party | Gerard Carr | 1,528 | 4.7 | +2.4 | |
Sinn Féin | Seán McKnight | 1,030 | 3.2 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 11,954 | 36.5 | +10.5 | ||
Turnout | 32,706 | 60.3 | –9.3 | ||
Registered electors | 54,208 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Martin Smyth | 21,771 | 71.3 | +21.3 | |
Alliance | David Cook | 7,635 | 25.0 | +1.1 | |
Workers' Party | Gerry Carr | 1,109 | 3.6 | +1.3 | |
Majority | 14,136 | 46.3 | +20.3 | ||
Turnout | 30,515 | 56.9 | –12.7 | ||
Registered electors | 53,944 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing |
Note: The by-election was caused by the decision of all Unionist MPs to resign their seats and seek re-election on a platform of opposition to the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Martin Smyth | 18,669 | 50.0 | –11.7 | |
Alliance | David Cook | 8,945 | 23.9 | –1.2 | |
DUP | Raymond McCrea | 4,565 | 12.2 | N/A | |
SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 3,216 | 8.6 | –0.7 | |
Sinn Féin | Sean McKnight | 1,107 | 3.0 | New | |
Workers' Party | Gerry Carr | 856 | 2.3 | New | |
Majority | 9,724 | 26.0 | –10.6 | ||
Turnout | 37,358 | 69.6 | +1.7 | ||
Registered electors | 53,674 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Martin Smyth | 17,123 | 39.3 | –22.4 | |
Alliance | David Cook | 11,726 | 26.9 | +1.8 | |
DUP | William McCrea | 9,818 | 22.6 | New | |
SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 3,839 | 8.8 | +0.9 | |
Ulster Loyalist Democratic Party | John McMichael | 576 | 1.3 | New | |
United Labour Party | Brian Caul | 303 | 0.7 | New | |
One Human Family | Jagat Narain | 137 | 0.3 | New | |
Peace State | Simon Hall-Raleigh | 12 | 0.03 | New | |
Majority | 5,397 | 12.4 | –24.2 | ||
Turnout | 43,534 | 66.2 | –1.7 | ||
Registered electors | 66,219 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Robert Bradford | 28,875 | 61.7 | +2.5 | |
Alliance | Basil Glass | 11,745 | 25.1 | +2.1 | |
SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 3,694 | 7.9 | +3.2 | |
Unionist Party NI | Victor Brennan | 1,784 | 3.8 | New | |
Labour Integrationist | Jeffrey Dudgeon | 692 | 1.5 | New | |
Majority | 17,130 | 36.6 | +0.4 | ||
Turnout | 46,790 | 67.9 | +0.2 | ||
Registered electors | 68,920 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vanguard | Robert Bradford | 30,116 | 59.2 | +16.6 | |
Alliance | John Glass | 11,715 | 23.0 | +13.1 | |
Ind. Unionist | Stanley McMaster | 4,982 | 9.8 | New | |
SDLP | Ben Caraher | 2,390 | 4.7 | –3.3 | |
NI Labour | Erskine Holmes | 1,643 | 3.2 | –1.5 | |
Majority | 18,401 | 36.2 | +28.5 | ||
Turnout | 50,846 | 67.7 | –1.9 | ||
Registered electors | 75,112 | ||||
Vanguard hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vanguard | Robert Bradford | 22,083 | 42.6 | New | |
Pro-Assembly Unionist | Rafton Pounder | 18,085 | 34.9 | New | |
Alliance | David Cook | 5,118 | 9.9 | New | |
SDLP | Ben Caraher | 4,149 | 8.0 | New | |
NI Labour | Erskine Holmes | 2,455 | 4.7 | –24.9 | |
Majority | 3,998 | 7.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 51,890 | 69.6 | +1.2 | ||
Registered electors | 75,443 | ||||
Vanguard gain from UUP | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Rafton Pounder | 27,523 | 70.4 | +5.0 | |
NI Labour | John Coulthard | 11,567 | 29.6 | –5.0 | |
Majority | 15,956 | 40.8 | +10.0 | ||
Turnout | 39,090 | 68.4 | +5.1 | ||
Registered electors | 57,112 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Rafton Pounder | 23,329 | 65.4 | –4.4 | |
NI Labour | Erskine Holmes | 12,364 | 34.6 | +12.2 | |
Majority | 10,965 | 30.8 | –16.6 | ||
Turnout | 35,693 | 63.3 | –5.0 | ||
Registered electors | 56,390 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Rafton Pounder | 27,422 | 69.8 | –0.1 | |
NI Labour | John Barkley | 8,792 | 22.4 | +0.8 | |
Ulster Liberal | Judith Rosenfield | 1,941 | 4.9 | –2.6 | |
Ind. Republican | Robert McKnight | 1,159 | 3.0 | New | |
Majority | 18,630 | 47.4 | −0.9 | ||
Turnout | 39,314 | 68.3 | –3.8 | ||
Registered electors | 57,558 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Rafton Pounder | 17,989 | 64.3 | –5.6 | |
NI Labour | Norman Searight | 7,209 | 25.8 | +4.2 | |
Ulster Liberal | Albert Hamilton | 2,774 | 9.9 | +2.4 | |
Majority | 10,780 | 38.5 | –9.8 | ||
Turnout | 27,972 | 48.3 | –23.8 | ||
Registered electors | 57,864 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1950s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | David Campbell | 30,164 | 69.9 | –8.5 | |
NI Labour | Norman Searight | 9,318 | 21.6 | +4.0 | |
Ulster Liberal | Sheelagh Murnaghan | 3,253 | 7.5 | New | |
Sinn Féin | Brendan O'Reilly | 434 | 1.0 | –2.9 | |
Majority | 20,846 | 48.3 | –12.5 | ||
Turnout | 43,169 | 72.1 | +6.4 | ||
Registered electors | 59,864 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | David Campbell | 33,392 | 78.4 | +2.6 | |
NI Labour | Edward Brown | 7,508 | 17.6 | –3.6 | |
Sinn Féin | Patrick Kearney | 1,679 | 3.9 | New | |
Majority | 25,884 | 60.8 | +9.2 | ||
Turnout | 42,579 | 65.7 | –8.1 | ||
Registered electors | 64,844 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | David Campbell | 23,067 | 75.1 | –0.7 | |
NI Labour | Samuel Napier | 7,655 | 24.9 | +0.7 | |
Majority | 15,412 | 50.2 | –1.4 | ||
Turnout | 30,722 | 46.4 | –27.4 | ||
Registered electors | 65,196 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Hugh Gage | 37,046 | 75.8 | +0.6 | |
NI Labour | Robert McBrinn | 11,815 | 24.2 | –0.6 | |
Majority | 25,231 | 51.6 | +1.2 | ||
Turnout | 48,861 | 73.8 | +4.5 | ||
Registered electors | 66,212 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Hugh Gage | 34,620 | 75.2 | +23.0 | |
NI Labour | James McKernan | 11,428 | 24.8 | +7.3 | |
Majority | 23,192 | 50.4 | +28.5 | ||
Turnout | 46,048 | 69.3 | +2.9 | ||
Registered electors | 66,486 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1940s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Conolly Gage | 24,282 | 52.2 | N/A | |
Commonwealth Labour | Harry Midgley | 14,096 | 30.3 | New | |
NI Labour | James Morrow | 8,166 | 17.5 | New | |
Majority | 10,186 | 21.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 46,544 | 66.4 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 70,140 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1930s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | William Stewart | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 63,004 | ||||
UUP hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | William Stewart | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 59,394 | ||||
UUP hold |
Elections in the 1920s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | William Stewart | 24,019 | 62.9 | N/A | |
Ind. Unionist | Philip James Woods | 14,148 | 37.1 | New | |
Majority | 9,871 | 25.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 38,167 | 64.7 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 59,025 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Thomas Moles | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | |||||
UUP hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Thomas Moles | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | |||||
UUP hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Thomas Moles | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | |||||
UUP win (new seat) |
Elections in the 1910s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Irish Unionist | William Arthur Lindsay | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | |||||
Irish Unionist hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Irish Unionist | James Chambers | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | |||||
Irish Unionist hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Irish Unionist | James Chambers | 5,585 | 67.2 | +5.3 | |
Ind. Unionist | Thomas Sloan | 2,722 | 32.8 | –5.3 | |
Majority | 2,863 | 34.4 | +10.6 | ||
Turnout | 8,307 | 78.2 | –9.6 | ||
Registered electors | 10,622 | ||||
Irish Unionist hold | Swing | +5.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Irish Unionist | James Chambers | 5,772 | 61.9 | +16.9 | |
Ind. Unionist | Thomas Sloan | 3,553 | 38.1 | –16.9 | |
Majority | 2,219 | 23.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 9,325 | 87.8 | +3.0 | ||
Registered electors | 10,622 | ||||
Irish Unionist gain from Ind. Unionist | Swing | +16.9 |
Elections in the 1900s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Ind. Unionist | Thomas Sloan | 4,450 | 55.0 | N/A | |
Irish Unionist | Arthur Hill | 3,634 | 45.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 816 | 10.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 8,084 | 84.8 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 9,538 | ||||
Ind. Unionist hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ind. Unionist | Thomas Sloan | 3,795 | 56.1 | New | |
Irish Unionist | Charles William Dunbar Buller | 2,969 | 43.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 826 | 12.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 6,764 | 66.0 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 10,246 | ||||
Ind. Unionist gain from Irish Unionist | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Irish Unionist | William Johnston | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | |||||
Irish Unionist hold |
Elections in the 1890s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Irish Unionist | William Johnston | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 8,192 | ||||
Irish Unionist hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Irish Unionist | William Johnston | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,563 | ||||
Irish Unionist hold |
Elections in the 1880s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Irish Conservative | William Johnston | 4,542 | 87.4 | +21.4 | |
Irish Parliamentary | Andrew McErlean | 657 | 12.6 | New | |
Majority | 3,885 | 74.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 5,199 | 77.1 | –4.1 | ||
Registered electors | 6,740 | ||||
Irish Conservative gain from Ind. Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ind. Conservative | William Johnston | 3,610 | 66.0 | ||
Liberal | John Workman | 990 | 18.1 | ||
Ind. Conservative | Robert Seeds | 871 | 15.9 | ||
Majority | 2,620 | 47.9 | |||
Turnout | 5,471 | 81.2 | |||
Registered electors | 6,740 | ||||
Ind. Conservative win (new seat) |
See also
[edit]References
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- General
4. Correction: Clare Bailey, Green Party in Northern Ireland (not Green Party of England and Wales)
Further reading
[edit]- F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918 – 1949
- F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950 – 1970
- The Liberal Year Book For 1917, Liberal Publication Department
- The Constitutional Year Book For 1912, Conservative Central Office
- The Constitutional Year Book For 1894, Conservative Central Office
External links
[edit]- Politics Resources (Election results from 1922 onwards)
- Electoral Calculus (Election results from 1955 onwards)
- 2017 Election House of Commons Library 2017 Election report
- A Vision Of Britain Through Time (Constituency elector numbers)
- BBC News, Election 2005
- BBC News, Vote 2001
- Guardian Unlimited Politics
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 2)
- Politicsresources.net – Official Web Site ✔ Archived 2 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine (Election results from 1951 to the present)
- Belfast South UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK
- Historic Westminster constituencies in Belfast
- Westminster constituencies in County Antrim (historic)
- Westminster constituencies in County Down (historic)
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1918
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1922
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 2024