Belfast North (UK Parliament constituency)

For other constituencies of the same name, see Belfast North (disambiguation).

Coordinates: 54°39′47″N 5°57′54″W / 54.663°N 5.965°W / 54.663; -5.965

Belfast North
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Belfast North in Northern Ireland.
Districts of Northern Ireland	Belfast, Newtownabbey
Population	102,531 (2011 census)^[1]
Electorate	67,422 (March 2011)
Current constituency
Created	1922
Member of parliament	Nigel Dodds (DUP)
Number of members	One
Created from	Belfast Duncairn, Belfast Shankill
1885–1918
Number of members	One
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
Replaced by	Belfast Duncairn, Belfast Shankill
Created from	Belfast
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Northern Ireland

Belfast North is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons.

Boundaries

1950-1974: The County Borough of Belfast wards of Clifton, Duncairn, and Shankill.

1974-1983: The County Borough of Belfast wards of Clifton, Dock, Duncairn, and Shankill.

1983-1997: The District of Belfast wards of Ardoyne, Ballysillan, Bellevue, Castleview, Cavehill, Cliftonville, Crumlin, Duncairn, Fortwilliam, Grove, Legoniel, New Lodge, Shankill, and Woodvale.

1997-2010: The District of Belfast wards of Ardoyne, Ballysillan, Bellevue, Castleview, Cavehill, Chichester Park, Cliftonville, Crumlin, Duncairn, Fortwilliam, Legoniel, New Lodge, Water Works, and Woodvale, and the District of Newtownabbey wards of Abbey, Coole, Dunanney, Valley, and Whitehouse.

2010–present: The District of Belfast wards of Ardoyne, Ballysillan, Bellevue, Castleview, Cavehill, Chichester Park, Cliftonville, Crumlin, Duncairn, Fortwilliam, Legoniel, New Lodge, Water Works, and Woodvale, and the District of Newtownabbey wards of Abbey, Ballyhenry, Cloughfern, Collinbridge, Coole, Dunanney, Elmfeild, Glebe, Glengormley, Hightown, Valley, and Whitehouse.

The seat was created in 1922 when, as part of the establishment of the devolved Stormont Parliament for Northern Ireland, the number of MPs in the Westminster Parliament was drastically cut. The seat is centred on the north section of Belfast, though at times the area around the Docks on the north side of the Lagan Estuary has instead been part of variously Belfast East and Belfast West. Belfast North also contains part of the district of Newtownabbey.

Belfast North contains 14 wards of Belfast City Council and 5 of Newtownabbey Borough Council. The constituency suffered the highest level of violence in Northern Ireland during The Troubles and covers many areas synonymous with the conflict – the New Lodge, Ardoyne, Rathcoole, Ballysillan and Woodvale. The overall tenor of the constituency is working-class, with a high proportion of residents in public housing, and concentrations of low-income single people in the middle Antrim Road and Cliftonville areas. There are some upscale residential areas around Belfast Castle and on the slopes of Cavehill. Sectarian divisions are stark, with a number of Peace lines cutting through the constituency and occasional outbursts of sectarian street violence, and was the focus for post-ceasefire incidents such as the Holy Cross dispute.

At the boundary commission hearings in September 2005 prior to the 2010 general election, the SDLP proposed extending the seat to Cloughfern and Jordanstown. The DUP supported the addition of Cloughfern. Sinn Féin were generally supportive of the commission's proposals.

Following the revised recommendations, the Commission proposals were finalised and accepted by Parliament through the Northern Ireland Parliamentary Constituencies Order.^[2]

History

Belfast North has historically had a narrow unionist majority, which has been gradually decreasing over time. The nationalist vote is considerable, and those from a Catholic background (47%) now slightly outnumber those from a Protestant background (46%), according to the 2011 census. It has generated particular interest for a number of highly unusual election results, as well as for several candidates and MPs prominently disagreeing with their parties.

Of the five main political parties in Northern Ireland, four (the Ulster Unionist Party, the Democratic Unionist Party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party and Sinn Féin) all have relatively strong support bases and routinely poll similar results. Other parties such as the Alliance, Progressive Unionist Party, Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, Conservatives and the Workers' Party have at times polled significantly, as have independent candidates, with the result that many elections have been won on comparatively low shares of the vote. The elections to the various assemblies have often seen the seats for the constituency heavily split – in 1998 no party won more than one Assembly seat.

The area saw a steady out movement of Protestants during the Troubles, to some degree replaced by a growing Catholic population, although the overall population of the area fell sharply. However, all the inner-city communities in the constituency are now haemorrhaging electors, and the overall ethnic composition of the constituency now seems stable.

The seat was consistently held by the Ulster Unionist Party from its creation until the 1970s. In 1972 the first notable dissent occurred when the sitting MP, Stratton Mills, dissented from the UUP's decision to withdraw from the Conservative whip at Westminster over the suspension of the Stormont Parliament. Mills remained as a Conservative MP, but the following year he joined the Alliance, giving them their only Westminster representation before 2010.

In the February 1974 general election the seat was won by John Carson of the Ulster Unionist Party with backing by the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party on a united slate in opposition to the Sunningdale Agreement. Carson's victory came despite a majority of votes being cast for pro-Sunningdale candidates, albeit split between the Pro-Assembly Unionists, the Social Democratic and Labour Party and the Northern Ireland Labour Party. Carson held his seat in the October 1974 election but was deselected by the local Ulster Unionists over his support for the minority Labour government.

The 1979 general election saw one of the most dramatic results of all when Johnny McQuade of the Democratic Unionist Party won the seat with a mere 27.6% of the vote – the third lowest total for a successful candidate in a UK general election in the twentieth century. This came about due to the strong showing of several other parties, dividing the vote strongly. McQuade also had the distinction of being the oldest person to be initially elected to Westminster in the 20th century and did not stand at the next general election.

In 1983, Cecil Walker regained the seat for the UUP, beating Scotsman George Seawright of the DUP. In the 1987 general election the UUP and DUP agreed a pact in opposition to the Anglo Irish Agreement. Seawright had been expelled from the DUP and stood in the election, reviving the Protestant Unionist Party label, but was unsuccessful.

Walker continued to hold the seat until 2001 but gained a reputation for inactivity. In the 2001 general election the DUP contested the seat for the first time since 1983, with their candidate Nigel Dodds campaigning heavily on both their opposition to the Good Friday Agreement and Walker's record. Walker also suffered from a disastrous television interview during the campaign. In the election Walker's vote collapsed to a mere 12%, coming fourth whilst Dodds won the seat. The UUP vote fell even further in both the 2003 Assembly election and the 2005 general election. Much of the attention in the run up to the 2015 general election focused on the growth of the Sinn Féin vote, as there was a 5% swing in their favour in the 2010 general election, now making it seem intensely marginal; in the event, however, a 7% increase in the DUP vote, possibly helped by the lack of a UUP candidate, and a 0.1% fall in the Sinn Féin vote, allowed for Dodds to hold the seat comfortably.

Members of Parliament

The Member of Parliament since the 2001 general election has been Nigel Dodds of the Democratic Unionist Party. He defeated Cecil Walker of the Ulster Unionist Party, who had sat for the seat since 1983.

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Sir William Ewart	Conservative
	1889 by-election	Edward James Harland	Conservative
	1896 by-election	James Horner Haslett	Conservative
	1905 by-election	Sir Daniel Dixon	Ulster Unionist
	1907 by-election	George Smith Clark	Ulster Unionist
	1910	Robert Thompson	Ulster Unionist
1918		constituency abolished
1922		constituency recreated
	1922	T.E. McConnell	Ulster Unionist
	1929	Thomas Somerset	Ulster Unionist
	1945	William Frederick Neill	Ulster Unionist
	1950	H. Montgomery Hyde	Ulster Unionist
	1959	Stratton Mills	Ulster Unionist
	1972		Conservative
	1973		Alliance
	Feb 1974	John Carson	Ulster Unionist
	1979	John McQuade	Democratic Unionist
	1983	Cecil Walker	Ulster Unionist
	2001	Nigel Dodds	Democratic Unionist

Monuments at Belfast City Hall – MP's Belfast North

Edward James Harland MP, Lord Mayor of Belfast
James Horner Haslett MP, Mayor of Belfast
Sir Daniel Dixon MP, Lord Mayor of Belfast

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Belfast North^[3]^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	DUP	Nigel Dodds^[5]	19,096	47.0	+7.0
	Sinn Féin	Gerry Kelly	13,770	33.9	-0.1
	SDLP	Alban Maginness^[6]	3,338	8.2	-4.1
	Alliance	Jason O'Neill^[7]	2,941	7.3	+2.4
	Workers' Party	Gemma Weir^[7]	919	2.3	N/A
	Independent	Fra Hughes	529	1.3	N/A
Majority			5,326	13.1	+7.1
Turnout			40,593	59.2	+2.7
	DUP hold		Swing	+3.5

General Election 2010: Belfast North^[8]^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	DUP	Nigel Dodds	14,812	40.0	-2.9
	Sinn Féin	Gerry Kelly	12,588	34.0	+7.1
	SDLP	Alban Maginness	4,544	12.3	-4.5
	UCU-NF	Fred Cobain	2,837	7.7	-1.8
	Alliance	Billy Webb	1,809	4.9	+2.0
	Independent	Martin McAuley	403	1.1	+1.1
Majority			2,224	6.0
Turnout			36,993	56.5	-1.1
	DUP hold		Swing	5.0

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Belfast North^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	DUP	Nigel Dodds	13,935	45.6	+4.8
	Sinn Féin	Gerry Kelly	8,747	28.6	+3.4
	SDLP	Alban Maginness	4,950	16.2	-4.8
	UUP	Fred Cobain	2,154	7.1	-4.9
	Alliance	Marjorie Hawkins	438	1.4	+1.4
	Workers' Party	Marcella Delaney	165	0.5	-0.1
	Rainbow Dream Ticket	Lynda Gilby	151	0.5	+0.2
Majority			5,188	17.0
Turnout			30,540	57.8	-9.4
	DUP hold		Swing	+0.7

General Election 2001: Belfast North^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	DUP	Nigel Dodds	16,718	40.8	0.0
	Sinn Féin	Gerry Kelly	10,331	25.2	+5.0
	SDLP	Alban Maginness	8,592	21.0	+0.6
	UUP	Cecil Walker	4,904	12.0	-39.8
	Workers' Party	Marcella Delaney	253	0.6	-0.1
	Rainbow Dream Ticket	Rainbow George Weiss	134	0.3	N/A
Majority			6,387	15.6
Turnout			40,932	67.2	+3.0
	DUP gain from UUP		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Belfast North^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	UUP	Cecil Walker	21,478	51.8	-.04
	SDLP	Alban Maginness	8,454	20.4	+1.9
	Sinn Féin	Gerry Kelly	8,375	20.2	+8.7
	Alliance	Tom Campbell	2,221	5.4	-2.4
	Green (NI)	Peter Emerson	539	1.3	N/A
	Workers' Party	Paul Treanor	297	0.7	N/A
	Natural Law	Andrea Gribben	98	0.2	N/A
Majority			13,024	31.4
Turnout				64.2
	UUP hold		Swing

1997 Changes are compared to the 1992 notional results shown below.^[13]

Notional 1992 UK General Election Result : Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	UUP	N/A	22,259	52.4	N/a
	SDLP	N/A	7,867	18.52	N/A
	Sinn Féin	N/A	4,882	11.5	N/A
	Alliance	N/A	3,321	7.8	N/A
	NI Conservatives	N/A	2,107	5.0	N/A
	Others	N/A	2,041	4.8	N/A
Majority			14,392	33.9	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing

General Election 1992: Belfast North^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UUP	Cecil Walker	17,240	48.0
	SDLP	Alban Maginness	7,615	21.2
	Sinn Féin	Paddy McManus	4,693	13.1
	Alliance	Tom Campbell	2,246	6.3
	NI Conservatives	Margaret Redpath	2,107	5.9
	New Agenda	Seamus Lynch	1,386	3.9
	Workers' Party	Margaret Smith	419	1.2
	Natural Law	David O'Leary	208	0.6
Majority			9,625
Turnout				65.2
	UUP hold		Swing

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Belfast North^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UUP	Cecil Walker	14,355	39.0
	SDLP	Alban Maginness	5,795	15.7
	Protestant Unionist	George Seawright	5,671	15.4
	Sinn Féin	Paddy McManus	5,062	13.8
	Workers' Party	Seamus Lynch	3,062	8.3
	Alliance	Tom Campbell	2,871	7.8
Majority			8,560	23.3
Turnout				62.3
	UUP hold		Swing

Belfast North by-election, 1986
Party		Candidate	Votes
	UUP	Cecil Walker	21,649
	Alliance	Paul Maguire	5,072
	Workers' Party	Seamus Lynch	3,563
Majority			16,577
Turnout
	UUP hold		Swing

General Election 1983: Belfast North^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UUP	Cecil Walker	15,339	36.2
	DUP	George Seawright	8,260	19.5
	SDLP	Brian Feeney	5,944	14.0
	Sinn Féin	Joe Austin	5,451	12.9
	Alliance	Paul Maguire	3,879	9.1
	Workers' Party	Seamus Lynch	2,412	5.7
	Independent DUP	William Gault	1,134	2.7
Majority			7,079	16.7
Turnout				69.4
	UUP gain from DUP		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DUP	Johnny McQuade	11,690	27.6
	UUP	Cecil Walker	10,695	25.3
	SDLP	Paschal O'Hare	7,823	18.5
	Unionist Party NI	Anne Dickson	4,220	10.0
	Alliance	John Cushnahan	4,120	9.7
	Republican Clubs	Seamus Lynch	1,907	4.5
	NI Labour	Alan Carr	1,889	4.4
Majority			995	2.4
Turnout			42,344	65.1
	DUP gain from UUP		Swing

General Election October 1974: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UUP	John Carson	29,662	62.6
	SDLP	Thomas Donnelly	11,400	24.1
	Alliance	John Ferguson	3,807	8.1
	NI Labour	Billy Boyd	2,481	5.2
Majority			18,222	38.5
Turnout			47,670	65.9
	UUP hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UUP	John Carson	21,531	43.7
	Pro-Assembly Unionist	David Smyth	12,755	25.9
	SDLP	Thomas Donnelly	12,003	24.4
	NI Labour	Sandy Scott	2,917	5.9
Majority			8,776	17.8
Turnout				68.2
	UUP hold		Swing

General Election 1970: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UUP	Stratton Mills	28,668	48.5
	NI Labour	John Sharkey	18,894	31.9
	Protestant Unionist	William Beattie	11,173	18.8
	Independent Unionist	John McKeague	441	0.8
Majority			9,774	16.5
Turnout			59,176	78.0
	UUP hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1966: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UUP	Stratton Mills	26,891	57.4
	NI Labour	David Overend	19,927	42.6
Majority			6,964	14.9
Turnout			46,818	65.5
	UUP hold		Swing

General Election 1964: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UUP	Stratton Mills	29,976	59.6
	NI Labour	Jack McDowell	17,564	34.9
	Independent Republican	Francis McGlade	2,743	5.5
Majority			12,412	24.7
Turnout			50,283	69.5
	UUP hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1959: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UUP	Stratton Mills	32,173	60.7
	NI Labour	Jack McDowell	18,640	35.2
	Sinn Féin	Francis McGlade	2,156	4.1
Majority			13,533	25.6
Turnout			52,969	71.1
	UUP hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UUP	Harford Montgomery Hyde	33,745	63.3
	NI Labour	Billy Boyd	15,065	28.2
	Sinn Féin	Francis McGlade	4,534	8.5
Majority			18,680
Turnout				69.3
	UUP hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UUP	Harford Montgomery Hyde	34,995	60.7
	NI Labour	James Morrow	22,685	39.3
Majority			12,310	21.3
Turnout			57,680	75.7
	UUP hold		Swing

General Election 1950: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UUP	Harford Montgomery Hyde	36,412	64.4
	NI Labour	William Leeburn	20,146	35.6
Majority			16,266	28.8
Turnout			56,558	74.9
	UUP hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UUP	William Frederick Neill	25,761	55.3
	NI Labour	William Leeburn	20,845	44.7
Majority			4,916	10.6
Turnout			46,606	63.6
	UUP hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	UUP	Thomas Somerset	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1931: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	UUP	Thomas Somerset	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	UUP	Thomas Somerset	27,812	62.1	-34.5
	Independent Unionist	Thomas Gibson Henderson	10,909	24.4	n/a
	Independent	David Wilson	6,059	13.5	n/a
Majority			16,903	37.8	-55.5
Turnout			44,780	72.9	-2.5
	UUP hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1924: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UUP	Thomas McConnell	34,182	96.6
	Sinn Féin	Hugh Corvin	1,192	3.4
Majority			32,990	93.3
Turnout			35,374	75.4
	UUP hold		Swing

General Election 1923: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	UUP	Thomas Edward McConnell	16,771	52.5	n/a
	Independent Unionist	Thomas Gibson Henderson	15,171	47.5	n/a
Majority			1,600	5.0	n/a
Turnout			31,942	68.2	n/a
	UUP hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1922: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	UUP	Thomas McConnell	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1910s

General Election December 1910: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	UUP	Robert Thompson	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election January 1910: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UUP	Robert Thompson	6,270	61.3
	Belfast Labour	Robert Gageby	3,951	38.7
Majority			2,319	22.7
Turnout			10,221
	UUP hold		Swing

Elections in the 1900s

Belfast North by-election, 1907
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Irish Unionist	George Smith Clark	6,021
	Belfast Labour	William Walker	4,194
Majority			1,827
Turnout
	Irish Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1906: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Irish Unionist	Daniel Dixon	4,907
	Belfast Labour	William Walker	4,616
Majority			291
Turnout
	Irish Unionist hold		Swing

Belfast North by-election, 1905
Party		Candidate	Votes	±
	Irish Unionist	Daniel Dixon	4,440
	Belfast Labour	William Walker	3,966	N/A
Majority			474
Turnout
	Irish Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1900: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Irish Unionist	James Horner Haslett	4,172
	Ind. Liberal Unionist	T. Harrison	1,855
Majority
Turnout
	Irish Unionist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1890s

Belfast North by-election, 1896
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Irish Unionist	James Horner Haslett	5,935
	Independent Unionist	Adam Turner	3,434
Majority
Turnout
	Irish Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1895: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Edward James Harland	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1892: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Edward James Harland	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1880s

Belfast North by-election, 1889: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Edward James Harland	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1886: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	UUP	William Ewart	4,522	86.1
	Irish Nationalist	J. Dempsey	732	13.9
Majority			3,790	72.1
Turnout			5,254
	Irish Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1885: Belfast North
Party		Candidate	Votes
	UUP	William Ewart	3,915
	Liberal	Alexander Bowman	1,330
Majority
Turnout
	Irish Unionist hold		Swing

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External links

BBC News, Election 2005
BBC News, Vote 2001
Guardian Unlimited Politics
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 2)
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ (Election results from 1951 to the present)
F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918 – 1949
F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950 – 1970
The Constitutional Year Book For 1912, Conservative Central Office

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1921–22

One or more seats taken	(none)

No seats taken	Antrim Belfast East Belfast North Belfast South Belfast West Queen's University of Belfast

Parliament of Northern Ireland
1921–72

1921–29	Antrim (1921–29) Belfast East (1921–29) Belfast North (1921–29) Belfast South (1921–29) West Belfast (1921–29) Queen's University of Belfast (1921–69)

1929–72	Bannside (1929–72) Belfast Ballynafeigh (1929–72) Belfast Bloomfield (1929–72) Belfast Central (1929–72) Belfast Clifton (1929–72) Belfast Cromac (1929–72) Belfast Dock (1929–72) Belfast Duncairn (1929–72) Belfast Falls (1929–72) Belfast Oldpark (1929–72) Belfast Pottinger (1929–72) Belfast Shankill (1929–72) Belfast St Annes (1929–72) Belfast Victoria (1929–72) Belfast Willowfield (1929–72) Belfast Windsor (1929–72) Belfast Woodvale (1929–72) Carrick (1929–72) Larkfield (1929–72) Larne (1929–72) Mid Antrim (1929–72) Newtownabbey (1969–72) North Antrim (1929–72) Queen's University of Belfast (1921–69) South Antrim (1929–72)

Northern Ireland Assemblies

Assembly 1973–74 Constitutional Convention 1975–76 Assembly 1982–86	North Antrim South Antrim Belfast East Belfast North Belfast South Belfast West

Northern Ireland Forum 1996–98 Assembly (1998–present)	East Antrim North Antrim South Antrim Belfast East Belfast North Belfast South Belfast West Lagan Valley

European Parliament
1979–present

Northern Ireland (1979—)

Constituencies in Ireland by county

Republic of Ireland	Carlow Cavan Clare Cork Donegal Dublin Galway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Laois Leitrim Limerick Longford Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan Offaly Roscommon Sligo Tipperary Waterford Westmeath Wexford Wicklow

Northern Ireland	Antrim Armagh Down Fermanagh Londonderry Tyrone

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