Belfast West (Assembly constituency)

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Belfast West
Northern Ireland Assembly Borough constituency
Belfast West shown within Northern Ireland
First Used: 1973
Assembly Members: Gerry Adams
Alex Attwood
Paul Maskey
Fra McCann
Jennifer McCann
Sue Ramsey
Districts: Belfast, Lisburn

Belfast West is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973. It usually shares boundaries with the Belfast West UK Parliament constituency, however the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1983 to 1986 as the Assembly boundaries had not caught up with Parliamentary boundary changes and from 1996 to 1997 when members of the Northern Ireland Forum had been elected from the newly drawn Parliamentary constituencies but the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected in 1992 under the 1983-95 constituency boundaries, was still in session.

Members were then elected from the constituency to the 1975 Constitutional Convention, the 1982 Assembly, the 1996 Forum and then to the current Assembly from 1998.

For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see Belfast West (UK Parliament constituency).

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[edit] Members

The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2007 election are:

The six MLAs for the constituency elected [1] in the 2003 election were:

Changes

In the 1998 election the six MLAs elected [3] were:

In the 1996 election to the Northern Ireland Peace Forum, 5 Forum members were elected from North Belfast. They were as follows:

In 1982 elections were held for an Assembly for Northern Ireland to hold the Secretary of State to account, in the hope that this would be the first step towards restoring devolution. West Belfast elected 4 members as follows:

In 1975 elections were held to a Constitutional Convention which sought (unsuccessfully) to generate a consensus on the future of the province. The six members elected from West Belfast were:

In 1973 elections were held to the Assembly set up under the Sunningdale Agreement. The six members elected from West Belfast were:

[edit] Elections

[edit] 2007

Party Candidate 1st Pref Result Count
Sinn Féin Gerry Adams 6,029 Elected 1
Sinn Féin Sue Ramsey 4,715 Elected 2
Sinn Féin Paul Maskey 4,368 Elected 6
Sinn Féin Jennifer McCann 4,265 Elected 6
Sinn Féin Fra McCann 4,254 Elected 6
Democratic Unionist Diane Dodds 3,661 Not elected 6
Social Democratic and Labour Alex Attwood 3,036 Elected 6
Social Democratic and Labour Margaret Walsh 1,074 Not elected 6
People Before Profit Sean Mitchell 774 Not elected 6
Ulster Unionist Louis West 558 Not elected 6
Workers Party John Lowry 434 Not elected 6
Independent (Republican Sinn Féin) Geraldine Taylor 427 Not elected 5
Alliance (NI) Daniel McGuinness 127 Not elected 4
Make Politicians History Rainbow George 68 Not elected 4

[edit] 2003

Party Candidate 1st Pref Result Count
Sinn Féin Gerry Adams 6,199 Elected 1
Sinn Féin Fra McCann 4,263 Elected 6
Sinn Féin Bairbre de Brun 4,069 Elected 6
Sinn Féin Michael Ferguson 3,849 Elected 8
Social Democratic and Labour Alex Attwood 3,667 Elected 5
Sinn Féin Sue Ramsey 2,988 Not elected
Social Democratic and Labour Joe Hendron 2,583 Not elected
Democratic Unionist Diane Dodds 2,544 Elected 8
Ulster Unionist Chris McGimpsey 1,170 Not elected
Progressive Unionist Hugh Smyth 813 Not elected
Workers Party John Lowry 407 Not elected
Independent John MacVicar 211 Not elected
Alliance (NI) Daniel McGuinness 75 Not elected
Ulster Third Way David Kerr 16 Not elected

[edit] 1998

Party Candidate 1st Pref Result Count
Sinn Féin Gerry Adams 9,078 Elected
Social Democratic and Labour Joe Hendron 6,140 Elected
Sinn Féin Bairbre de Brun 4,711 Elected
Sinn Féin Alex Maskey 4,330 Elected
Social Democratic and Labour Alex Attwood 4,280 Elected
Sinn Féin Sue Ramsey 3,946 Elected
Sinn Féin Michael Ferguson 2,585 Not elected
Progressive Unionist Hugh Smyth 2,180 Not elected
Ulster Unionist Chris McGimpsey 1,640 Not elected
Democratic Unionist Margaret Ferris 1,345 Not elected
UK Unionist Thomas Dalzell-Ferguson 666 Not elected
Workers Party John Lowry 607 Not elected
Alliance (NI) Daniel McGuinness 129 Not elected
Independent Mary Cahillane 128 Not elected
Natural Law Michael Kennedy 29 Not elected

[edit] 1996 Forum

Party Elected candidate(s) Votes Percentage
Sinn Féin Gerry Adams
Dodie McGuinness
Alex Maskey
Annie Armstrong		 22,355 53
Social Democratic and Labour Joe Hendron 11,087 26
Progressive Unionist 1,982 5
Democratic Unionist 1,769 4
Ulster Unionist 1,489 4
Workers Party 984 2
Ulster Democratic 848 2
Alliance (NI) 340 1
Labour Coalition 319 1
NI Women's Coalition 252 1
Green (NI) 156 0
Conservative 60 0
Independent 48 0
Ulster Independence Movement 43 0
Democratic Left 37 0
Natural Law 30 0
Communist 28 0
Ulster's Independent Voice 26 0

[edit] 1982

Party Candidate 1st Pref Result Count
Sinn Féin Gerry Adams 9,740 Elected
Social Democratic and Labour Joe Hendron 5,207 Elected
Ulster Unionist Thomas Passmore 4,505 Elected
Democratic Unionist William Dickson 4,394 Not elected
Alliance (NI) Will Glendinning 2,733 Elected
Workers Party Mary McMahon 2,493 Not elected
Social Democratic and Labour Cormac Boomer 2,145 Not elected
Independent Unionist Hugh Smyth 1,255 Not elected
Social Democratic and Labour Mary Muldoon 1,016 Not elected
Sinn Féin Alex Maskey 627 Not elected
People's Democracy John McAnulty 144 Not elected

[edit] 1975 Constitutional Convention

Party Candidate 1st Pref Result Count
Ulster Unionist John Laird 8,433 Elected
Social Democratic and Labour Paddy Devlin 6,267 Elected
Alliance (NI) Bob Cooper 3,293 Elected
Social Democratic and Labour Joe Hendron 2,840 Elected
Independent Unionist Hugh Smyth 2,644 Elected
Social Democratic and Labour Paschal O'Hare 2,452 Not elected
Ulster Unionist Jean Coulter 2,325 Elected
Independent Thomas Conaty 4,394 Not elected
Social Democratic and Labour Desmond Gilespie 1,986 Not elected
Democratic Unionist Edith Goligher 1,958 Not elected
Republican Clubs John Sullivan 660 Not elected
Republican Clubs John Brady 418 Not elected
Republican Clubs Bernard McDonagh 262 Not elected
Communist John Morris 86 Not elected
Communist Peter Kerins 44 Not elected

[edit] 1973

Party Candidate 1st Pref Result Count
Ulster Unionist John Laird 11,479 Elected
Social Democratic and Labour Paddy Devlin 7,743 Elected
Alliance (NI) Bob Cooper 3,160 Elected
Social Democratic and Labour Desmond O'Donnell 2,112 Not elected
Labour (NI) Billy Boyd 1,942 Not elected
Social Democratic and Labour Desmond Gilespie 1,940 Elected
Vanguard Progressive Unionist Jean Coulter 1,765 Elected
Social Democratic and Labour Gerry Campbell 1,764 Not elected
Republican Labour Paddy Kennedy 1,750 Not elected
Republican Clubs Raymond O'Hagan 1,389 Not elected
Democratic Unionist William Spence 1,366 Not elected
Republican Clubs John O'Hare 702 Not elected
Alliance (NI) Reginald Donnelly 194 Not elected
Alliance (NI) Maureen Smyth 169 Not elected
Labour (NI) Patrick Doherty 151 Not elected
Communist James Stewart 123 Not elected

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/03wb.htm
  2. ^ http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/members/constits/const_bw03.htm
  3. ^ http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/98wb.htm
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