List of parliamentary constituencies in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is divided into 18 Parliamentary constituencies - 4 borough constituencies in Belfast and 14 county constituencies elsewhere. Each area returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons at Westminster and six Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) to the devolved Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont. Parliamentary constituencies are not used for local government, which is instead carried out by 26 district councils; these often have different boundaries.

Name Current boundaries Name
  1. Belfast East
  2. Belfast North
  3. Belfast South
  4. Belfast West
  5. East Antrim
  6. East Londonderry
  7. Fermanagh & South Tyrone
  8. Foyle
  9. Lagan Valley
  1. Mid Ulster
  2. Newry & Armagh
  3. North Antrim
  4. North Down
  5. South Antrim
  6. South Down
  7. Strangford
  8. Upper Bann
  9. West Tyrone

2010 General Election

      Democratic Unionist       Sinn Féin       Social Democratic and Labour       Ulster Unionist       Alliance Party       Conservative       Traditional Unionist Voice       Independent
The data in this table is from the BBC Election Website.

Name[nb 1] Electorate Majority[nb 2] Member of Parliament Nearest opposition Map
Belfast East BC 60,129 1,533 Naomi Long Peter Robinson
Belfast North BC 63,193 2,224 Nigel Dodds Gerry Kelly
Belfast South BC 58,225 5,926 Alasdair McDonnell Jimmy Spratt
Belfast West BC* 60,817 13,123 Paul Maskey Alex Attwood
East Antrim CC 56,125 6,770 Sammy Wilson Rodney McCune
East Londonderry CC 60,494 5,355 Gregory Campbell Cathal Ó hOisín
Fermanagh & South Tyrone CC 64,345 4 Michelle Gildernew Rodney Connor
Foyle CC 60,823 4,824 Mark Durkan Martina Anderson
Lagan Valley CC 60,973 10,486 Jeffrey Donaldson Daphne Trimble
Mid Ulster CC 60,119 15,363 Martin McGuinness Ian McCrea
Newry & Armagh CC 68,730 8,331 Conor Murphy Dominic Bradley
North Antrim CC 72,814 12,558 Ian Paisley, Jr. Jim Allister
North Down CC 57,435 14,364 Sylvia Hermon Ian Parsley
South Antrim CC 56,594 1,183 William McCrea Reg Empey
South Down CC 64,530 8,412 Margaret Ritchie Catriona Ruane
Strangford CC 57,463 5,876 Jim Shannon Mike Nesbitt
Upper Bann CC 68,806 3,361 David Simpson Harry Hamilton
West Tyrone CC 57,847 10,685 Pat Doherty Thomas Buchanan
Constituency Unionist vote Republican/Nationalist vote Neutral/Other vote
North Down 88.6 2.7 8.7
Strangford 79.3 10.3 10.4
Lagan Valley 79.5 9.0 11.4
North Antrim 74.1 21.2 4.6
South Antrim 69.7 22.6 7.7
East Antrim 75.6 13.4 11.1
Upper Bann 59.5 37.5 3.0
East Londonderry 59.8 34.7 5.5
Belfast North 47.7 46.3 6.0
Belfast East 59.4 3.5 37.2
Belfast West 10.7 87.5 1.9
Belfast South 41.0 41.0 18.0
Foyle 15.0 76.6 8.3
South Down 19.4 77.2 3.4
Fermanagh & South Tyrone 45.5 53.1 1.8
Mid Ulster 32.7 66.3 1.0
West Tyrone 34.0 62.4 3.7
Newry & Armagh 31.9 65.4 2.7

Notes

  1. ^ BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
  2. ^ The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

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