Belfast West by-election, 1950

There was a by-election for Belfast West constituency on 29 November 1950.

It occurred after the winner at the 1950 UK general election, James Godfrey MacManaway, was disqualified as he was a priest.

Thomas Leslie Teevan, the Unionist candidate, narrowly beat Jack Beattie, a former MP for the constituency who was the candidate of the Irish Labour Party, by 913 votes. However Beattie beat Teevan at the 1951 general election.^[1]

Result

Belfast West by-election, 1950^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Thomas Teevan	31,796	50.8	- 0.7
	Irish Labour	Jack Beattie	30,833	49.2	+ 2.9
Majority			913	1.5	- 4.0
Turnout			62,629
	UUP hold		Swing

References

↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 2)
↑ "1950 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 2012-03-25. Retrieved 2015-08-12.

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