Queen's University of Belfast (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

Queen's University of Belfast
Former University constituency for the Parliament of Northern Ireland
Queen's University of Belfast Constituency
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.

Franchise

The constituency was created by the

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]

Members of Parliament

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

At the

John Campbell, Robert James Johnstone, Hugh Morrison and John Hanna Robb

were elected unopposed.

At the 1935 Queen's University of Belfast by-election, Arthur Brownlow Mitchell was elected unopposed.

At the

Howard Stevenson

was elected unopposed.

Elections in the 1940s

At the 1942 Queen's University of Belfast by-election, William Lyle was elected unopposed.

At the 1943 Queen's University of Belfast by-election, John W. Renshaw was elected unopposed.

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

At the 1965 Northern Ireland general election, Harold McClure, Elizabeth Maconachie, Sheelagh Murnaghan and Charles Stewart were elected unopposed.

References

• Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results: University