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Belfast St Anne's (Northern Ireland Parliament Constituency)
Belfast St Anne's was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland. Boundaries Belfast St Anne's was a borough constituency comprising part of south-western Belfast. It was created in 1929 when the House of Commons (Method of Voting and Redistribution of Seats) Act (Northern Ireland) 1929 introduced first past the post elections throughout Northern Ireland. Belfast St Anne's was created by the division of Belfast West (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency), Belfast West into four new constituencies. It survived unchanged, returning one member of Parliament, until the Parliament of Northern Ireland was Northern Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act 1972, temporarily suspended in 1972, and then Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973, formally abolished in 1973.The Northern Ireland House of Commons, 1921-197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Ireland Parliament Constituencies
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1929 Northern Ireland General Election
The 1929 Northern Ireland general election was held on 22 May 1929. Like all previous elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland, it produced a large majority for the Ulster Unionist Party. It was the first held after the abolition of proportional representation and the redrawing of electoral boundaries to create single-seat constituencies. Though it had been argued this was done with the intent of gerrymandering, this has been considered unlikely as the Unionists already had a solid majority at the parliamentary level. However, the opposite was more accurate at local level. As with the rest of the United Kingdom, this has made it more difficult for independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in Pennsylvania, United States * Independentes (English: Independents), a Portuguese artist ... and minor party candidates like the Northern Ireland Labour Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 Northern Ireland General Election
The 1958 Northern Ireland general election was called on 27 February by 1st Viscount Brookeborough to be held on 20 March 1958. Like all previous elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland, it produced a large majority for the Ulster Unionist Party. The Northern Ireland Labour Party returned to the Commons after being wiped out in the 1949 election. Campaign Announcing the election, Viscount Brookeborough remarked that the election would be on the Border issue once more, noting that this was the ninth election on the same issue. Unemployment was also an issue in the election with 50,000 people out of work in the province in that year. Results ''Electorate: 891,064 (359,816 in contested seats); Turnout: 67.1% (241,501).'' Votes summary Seats summary See also * List of members of the 9th House of Commons of Northern Ireland References Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results Notes 1958 Northern Ireland general election Northern Irel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Northern Ireland General Election
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The 1953 Northern Ireland general election was held on 22 October 1953. Like all previous elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland, it produced a large majority for the Ulster Unionist Party. Results ''All parties shown. Electorate 888,352 (428,216 in contested seats); Turnout 60.2% (257,924).'' Votes summary Seats summary See also * MPs elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1953 References Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results Notes 1953 elections in the United Kingdom 1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 Northern Ireland General Election
The 1949 Northern Ireland general election was held on 19 February 1949. The election became known as the Chapel-gate election because collections were held at churches in the Republic of Ireland to support the Nationalist Party campaign. The election was held just after the Republic of Ireland's declaration of a republic. The Unionists were able to use their majority in the Parliament of Northern Ireland to schedule the election at a time when many Protestants felt uneasy about events taking place south of the border, and as a result might be more likely to vote Unionist than for Labour candidates. This appears to have been borne out in the collapse of the Labour vote; the party lost both of its 2 seats in the Commons, and would not return to the Parliament until 1958. 20 MPs were elected unopposed, most of them Ulster Unionists. Results ''All parties shown. Electorate 846,719 (477,354 in contested seats); Turnout 79.3% (378,458).'' Votes summary Seats su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 Northern Ireland General Election
The 1945 Northern Ireland general election was held on 14 June 1945. The election saw significant losses for the Ulster Unionist Party, though they retained their majority. 20 MPs were elected unopposed (38%), the vast majority of whom were Ulster Unionists. Four MPs affiliated with the labour movement were elected, a new record that would not be surpassed until 1958 Northern Ireland general election, 1958. Results ''Electorate: 845,964 (509,098 in contested seats); Turnout: 70.3% (357,882).'' Votes summary Seats summary Contested seats Only 32 of the 52 seats (62%) were actually contested. Uncontested seats In 20 of the 52 seats (38%), only one candidate stood and they were elected unopposed without any votes cast. The vast majority of the MPs elected without a contest were Ulster Unionists. See also *1945 United Kingdom general election References Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results Notes {{Northern Ireland elections Gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 Northern Ireland General Election
The 1933 Northern Ireland general election was held on 30 November 1933. Like all previous elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland, it produced a large majority for the Ulster Unionist Party. 33 of the 52 MPs (63%) were elected unopposed, the largest number in the history of the House of Commons. The vast majority of those elected without a contest were Ulster Unionists. Results ''Electorate 793,952 (250,519 in contested seats); Turnout 67.7% (169,690). The sole member elected for Fianna Fáil was the President of the Executive Council (Prime Minister) of the Irish Free State, Éamon de Valera.'' Seat changes Votes summary Seats summary Contested seats Only 19 of the 52 seats (37%) were actually contested. Uncontested seats In 33 of the 52 seats (63%), only one candidate stood and they were elected unopposed without any votes cast. The vast majority of the MPs elected without a contest were Ulster Unionists. ReferencesNorthern Ireland Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip James Woods
Colonel Philip James Woods (23 September 1880 – 12 September 1961) was an independent unionist politician in Northern Ireland, member of the Northern Ireland House of Commons. He was a colonel in the Royal Irish Rifles, seeing action on the Western Front in the First World War and in Karelia where he raised and led a local regiment during the Allied intervention in North Russia. In Belfast he worked as a textile designer. Early years Woods was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and at the Belfast School of Art. For four years he was employed as a textile designer in a firm of linen manufacturer in Belfast. Under age for regular enlistment in the South African War, he joined Robert Baden Powell's South African Constabulary, serving nearly two years before returning to Belfast and his previous employment. In the Home Rule Crisis he joined the Ulster Volunteers and was involved in the gun-running that armed the force with German munitions. Military career O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Laird, Baron Laird
John Dunn Laird, Baron Laird, , of Artigarvan (23 April 1944 – 10 July 2018) was a Northern Irish politician, life peer and former chairman of the cross-border Ulster-Scots Agency. In 2013 Laird allegedly offered to lobby for a firm against parliamentary rules. Consequently, he resigned from the Ulster Unionist Party. Career Whilst Chairman of the Ulster Young Unionist Council in 1970, Laird became the youngest member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, after winning the seat of Belfast Saint Anne's in a by-election caused by the death of his father, Dr Norman Laird OBE. He was expelled from the Ulster Unionist Parliamentary Party in January 1972 when he voted for a Democratic Unionist Party censure motion opposing a ban on certain processions planned for The Twelfth. He topped the poll in Belfast West in the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election opposed to the proposals of the former Prime Minister Brian Faulkner. He repeated this feat as an Ulster Unionist cand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Northern Ireland Parliament By-elections
This is a list of by-elections to the Northern Ireland House of Commons, from its creation in 1921 until its abolition in 1972. References Biographies of Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons {{DEFAULTSORT:Northern Ireland Parliament by-elections By-elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland, * Northern Ireland politics-related lists Lists of by-elections in the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland Elections in Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Parliament by-elections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Laird
Norman Laird (1906 – 28 April 1970) was a medical doctor and unionist politician in Northern Ireland. Laird studied at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and the Queen's University of Belfast. He became a doctor and joined the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), and chaired its St Anne's branch from 1948 until 1969. He was awarded an OBE in 1961. Laird was elected for the UUP in Belfast St Anne's at the 1969 Northern Ireland general election. In March 1970, he was one of five UUP MPs expelled from the Ulster Unionist parliamentary party for refusing to support the government in a vote of no confidence.J. R. Hill, ''A New History of Ireland Volume VII: Ireland 1921-84'', p.341 He died the following month. In the ensuing by-election, his seat was won by his son, John Laird John Laird may refer to: * John Laird (American politician) (born 1950), California State Senator * John Laird (footballer) (1935–2016) Australian rules footballer * John Laird (philosopher) (1887–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Northern Ireland General Election
The 1969 Northern Ireland general election was held on Monday 24 February 1969. It was the last election to the Parliament of Northern Ireland before its abolition by the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973. This was the first (and only) election since the 1929 Northern Ireland general election, 1929 general election to see changes to the constituencies. The Queen's University of Belfast (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency), Queen's University of Belfast seat was abolished and four new constituencies were created in the suburbs of Belfast to compensate for population growth there. Overview Unlike previous elections that produced a large unambiguous majority for the Ulster Unionist Party, this one gave more complex results. The Ulster Unionists were divided over a variety of reforms introduced by Prime Minister Terence O'Neill and this division spilled over into the election with official Ulster Unionist candidates standing either in support of or opposition to O'Nei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
