Queen's University of Belfast (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)
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Queen's University of Belfast Parliament of Northern Ireland University constituency |
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Queen's University of Belfast shown within Northern Ireland | |
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 the single transferable vote method of proportional representation. In 1969 the constituency was abolished under reforms carried out by the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill.
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[edit] Boundaries
The constituency was not a physical area but was rather elected by the graduates of the Queen's University of Belfast.
[edit] Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | ||||
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MPs (1921) |
John Campbell | Ulster Unionist | John Hanna Robb | Ulster Unionist | Robert James Johnstone | Ulster Unionist | Hugh Morrison | Ulster Unionist | ||||
MPs (1929) |
Robert Corkey | Ulster Unionist | Robert McNeill | Independent Unionist | ||||||||
MPs (1935) |
Arthur Brownlow Mitchell | Ulster Unionist | ||||||||||
MPs (1938) |
John MacDermott | Ulster Unionist | ||||||||||
MPs (1938) |
Howard Stevenson | Ulster Unionist | ||||||||||
MPs (1942) |
William Lyle | Ulster Unionist | ||||||||||
MPs (1943) |
John W. Renshaw | Ulster Unionist | ||||||||||
MPs (1944) |
Herbert Quin | Ulster Unionist | ||||||||||
MPs (1945) |
Frederick McSorley | Independent | Irene Calvert | Independent | ||||||||
MPs 1948 |
Samuel Irwin | Ulster Unionist | ||||||||||
MPs (1949} |
Eileen M. Hickey | Independent | William Lyle | Ulster Unionist | ||||||||
MPs (1949) |
Frederick Lloyd-Dodd | Ulster Unionist | ||||||||||
MPs (1953) |
Elizabeth Maconachie | Ulster Unionist | ||||||||||
MPs (1958) |
Charles Stewart | Independent | ||||||||||
MPs (1961) |
Sheelagh Murnaghan | Liberal | ||||||||||
MPs (1962) |
Harold McClure | Ulster Unionist | ||||||||||
MPs (1966) |
Robert Porter | Ulster Unionist |
[edit] Election results
[edit] Elections in the 1920s
1921 General Election: Queen's University of Belfast (4 seats) | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
Ulster Unionist | John Campbell | 835 | 43.4 | 1 | 1 | |
Ulster Unionist | John Hanna Robb | 368 | 19.1 | 3 | 2 | |
Ulster Unionist | Robert James Johnstone | 279 | 14.5 | 2 | 2 | |
Ulster Unionist | Hugh Morrison | 243 | 12.6 | 4 | 3 | |
Sinn Féin | Sean Dolan | 201 | 10.4 | 3 | ||
Turnout | 1,926 | 76.2 | N/A |
- At the Northern Ireland general election, 1925, John Campbell, Robert James Johnstone, Hugh Morrison and John Hanna Robb were elected unopposed.
1929 General Election: Queen's University of Belfast (4 seats) | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
Ulster Unionist | John Hanna Robb | 528 | 24.9 | 1 | 1 | |
Ulster Unionist | Robert Corkey | 510 | 24.0 | 2 | 1 | |
Independent Unionist | Robert McNeill | 441 | 20.8 | 3 | 1 | |
Ulster Unionist | Robert James Johnstone | 340 | 16.0 | 4 | 3 | |
Ulster Unionist | Arthur Brownlow Mitchell | 302 | 14.2 | 3 | ||
Turnout | 2,121 | 63.8 | N/A |
[edit] Elections in the 1930s
1933 General Election: Queen's University of Belfast (4 seats) | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
Ulster Unionist | Robert James Johnstone | 695 | 29.5 | 1 | 1 | |
Ulster Unionist | Robert Corkey | 512 | 21.7 | 2 | 1 | |
Ulster Unionist | John Hanna Robb | 451 | 19.1 | 3 | 2 | |
Independent Unionist | Robert McNeill | 368 | 15.6 | 4 | 2 | |
Independent | Frederick McSorley | 331 | 14.0 | 2 | ||
Turnout | 2,357 | 62.0 | - 1.8 |
- At the Queen's University of Belfast by-election, 1935, Arthur Brownlow Mitchell was elected unopposed.
1938 General Election: Queen's University of Belfast (4 seats) | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
Ulster Unionist | Robert Corkey | 608 | 24.8 | 1 | 1 | |
Ulster Unionist | Robert James Johnstone | 600 | 24.5 | 2 | 1 | |
Ulster Unionist | Arthur Brownlow Mitchell | 369 | 14.7 | 3 | 5 | |
Independent | Frederick McSorley | 359 | 5 | |||
Independent Unionist | S. Sims | 259 | 10.6 | 3 | ||
Ulster Unionist | John MacDermott | 253 | 10.3 | 4 | 5 | |
Turnout | 2,448 | 61.1 | - 0.9 |
- At the Queen's University of Belfast by-election, 1938, Howard Stevenson was elected unopposed.
[edit] Elections in the 1940s
- At the Queen's University of Belfast by-election, 1942, William Lyle was elected unopposed.
- At the Queen's University of Belfast by-election, 1943, John W. Renshaw was elected unopposed.
Queen's University of Belfast by-election, 1944 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Ulster Unionist | Herbert Quin | 1,178 | 53.6 | N/A | |
Independent | Irene Calvert | 1,020 | 46.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 158 | 71.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 2,198 | 46.7 | - 14.4 | ||
Ulster Unionist hold | Swing | N/A |
1945 General Election: Queen's University of Belfast (4 seats) | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
Independent | Frederick McSorley | 649 | 21.6 | 1 | 1 | |
Ulster Unionist | Howard Stevenson | 580 | 19.3 | 2 | 1 | |
Independent | Irene Calvert | 570 | 18.9 | 3 | 1 | |
Ulster Unionist | Herbert Quin | 535 | 17.8 | 4 | 3 | |
Ulster Unionist | E. B. Wallace | 286 | 9.5 | 3 | ||
Ulster Unionist | William Lyle | 279 | 9.3 | 3 | ||
Independent Unionist | S. Sims | 109 | 3.6 | 2 | ||
Turnout | 3,008 | 59.1 | - 2.0 |
Queen's University of Belfast by-election, 1948 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Ulster Unionist | Samuel Irwin | 2,735 | 70.8 | N/A | |
Independent | Eileen M. Hickey | 1,126 | 29.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,609 | 41.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,861 | 57.4 | - 1.7 | ||
Ulster Unionist hold | Swing | N/A |
1949 General Election: Queen's University of Belfast (4 seats) | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
Ulster Unionist | 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 | |
Ulster Unionist | E. B. Wallace | 620 | 11.8 | 3 | ||
Ulster Unionist | William Lyle | 588 | 11.2 | 4 | 3 | |
Ulster Unionist | Howard Stevenson | 339 | 6.5 | 2 | ||
Turnout | 5,237 | 75.0 | + 15.9 |
Queen's University of Belfast by-election, 1949 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Ulster Unionist | Frederick Lloyd-Dodd | 2,100 | 54.0 | N/A | |
Independent Unionist | N. S. Dickson | 1,312 | 33.7 | N/A | |
Independent | E. Reid | 479 | 12.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 749 | 19.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,891 | 54.2 | - 20.8 | ||
Ulster Unionist hold | Swing | N/A |
[edit] Elections in the 1950s
1953 General Election: Queen's University of Belfast (4 seats) | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
Ulster Unionist | Samuel Irwin | 1,840 | 32.9 | 1 | 1 | |
Independent | Eileen M. Hickey | 1,206 | 21.6 | 2 | 1 | |
Ulster Unionist | Elizabeth Maconachie | 940 | 16.8 | 4 | 2 | |
Ulster Unionist | Frederick Lloyd-Dodd | 706 | 12.6 | 3 | 2 | |
Independent | R. Appleton | 539 | 9.6 | 2 | ||
Labour (NI) | S. Napier | 297 | 5.3 | 2 | ||
Turnout | 5,586 | 63.7 | - 11.3 |
1958 General Election: Queen's University of Belfast (4 seats) | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
Ulster Unionist | Samuel Irwin | 1,640 | 28.3 | 1 | 1 | |
Independent | Charles Stewart | 1,218 | 21.0 | 2 | 1 | |
Ulster Unionist | Elizabeth Maconachie | 1,131 | 19.5 | 3 | 2 | |
Liberal | Albert McElroy | 759 | 13.1 | 4 | ||
Ulster Unionist | Frederick Lloyd-Dodd | 706 | 12.2 | 4 | 4 | |
Labour (NI) | S. J. Watt | 345 | 5.9 | 2 | ||
Turnout | 5,799 | 52.9 | - 10.8 |
[edit] Elections in the 1960s
Queen's University of Belfast by-election, 1961 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Sheelagh Murnaghan | 2,622 | 52.5 | N/A | |
Ulster Unionist | S. Rodgers | 2,370 | 47.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 252 | 5.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,992 | 45.1 | - 7.8 | ||
Liberal gain from Ulster Unionist | Swing | N/A |
1962 General Election: Queen's University of Belfast (4 seats) | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
Ulster Unionist | Harold McClure | 2,040 | 30.0 | 1 | 1 | |
Liberal | Sheelagh Murnaghan | 1,698 | 24.9 | 2 | 1 | |
Ulster Unionist | Elizabeth Maconachie | 1,252 | 18.4 | 3 | 2 | |
Independent | Charles Stewart | 1,220 | 17.9 | 4 | 3 | |
Ulster Unionist | H. R. Brown | 597 | 8.8 | 3 | ||
Turnout | 6,807 | 53.8 | + 0.9 |
- At the Northern Ireland general election, 1965, Harold McClure, Elizabeth Maconachie, Sheelagh Murnaghan and Charles Stewart were elected unopposed.
Queen's University of Belfast by-election, 1966 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Ulster Unionist | Robert Porter | 3,717 | 55.6 | N/A | |
Liberal | Albert McElroy | 2,968 | 44.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 749 | 11.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 6,685 | 48.7 | N/A | ||
Ulster Unionist gain from Independent | Swing | N/A |
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