The Belfast West by-election 1943, was a
by-election held on 9 February 1943 for the
British House of Commons
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the upper house, the House of Lords, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England.
The House of Commons is an elected body consisting of 650 mem ...
constituency of
Belfast West, in Northern Ireland. The seat had become vacant when the sitting
Unionist Member of Parliament (MP)
Alexander Browne
Captain Alexander Crawford Browne (died 11 December 1942) was an Ulster Unionist Party politician.
Crawford Browne attended Methodist College Belfast from 1873 to 1880. He served in the 36th (Ulster) Division from 1914 to 1919 and became a Capta ...
had died in December 1942.
The winner was
Northern Ireland Labour Party candidate
Jack Beattie, a shock result in what had previously been a Unionist
safe seat
A safe seat is an electoral district (constituency) in a legislative body (e.g. Congress, Parliament, City Council) which is regarded as fully secure, for either a certain political party, or the incumbent representative personally or a combinat ...
.
Results
References
External links
A Vision Of Britain Through Time(Constituency elector numbers)
See also
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1950 Belfast West by-election
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 Teevan, the Unionist candidate, nar ...
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Belfast West (UK Parliament constituency)
1943 elections in the United Kingdom
West
20th century in Belfast
1943 elections in Northern Ireland
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