Bangor was a single-member

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of the

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Boundaries and Boundary Changes

Bangor was created by the

Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated ...

as a division of

County Down County Down () is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It covers an area of and has a population of 531,665. It borders County Antrim to the ...

. It was located to the east of

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. Before 1969, the area formed part of the Northern Ireland Parliament constituency of North Down. The constituency sent one MP to the

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at the 1969 general election. The Parliament was

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on 30 March 1972, under the terms of the

Northern Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act 1972 The Northern Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act 1972 (c. 22) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that introduced direct rule in Northern Ireland with effect from 30 March 1972. The act, which took effect immediately on receiving ...

. It was formally abolished in 1973 when the

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received

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on 18 July 1973. The Parliamentary representative of the division was elected using the

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system.

Member of Parliament

Election results

* ''Parliament

30 March 1972 and abolished 18 July 1973''

References

* ''Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results 1921-1972'', compiled and edited by Sydney Elliott (Political Reference Publications 1973)
Northern Ireland House of Commons, 1921 - 1972

External links

* For more information about the Northern Ireland House of Commons, see http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/stormont.html {{Authority control Constituencies of the Northern Ireland Parliament Northern Ireland Parliament constituencies established in 1969 Historic constituencies in County Down Northern Ireland Parliament constituencies disestablished in 1973