Mid Antrim was a constituency of the

Northern Ireland House of Commons The House of Commons of Northern Ireland was the lower house of the Parliament of Northern Ireland created under the ''Government of Ireland Act 1920''. The upper house in the bicameral parliament was called the Senate. It was abolished wit ...

. The ''House of Commons (Method of Voting and Redistribution of Seats) Act (Northern Ireland), 1929'' introduced

first-past-the-post In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast thei ...

elections for 48 single-member constituencies (including ''Antrim Mid''). It was a single-member division of

County Antrim County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim, ) is one of six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of and has a population o ...

represented in the

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. Before 1929, it was part of the seven-member Antrim constituency. The constituency sent one MP to the

House of Commons of Northern Ireland The House of Commons of Northern Ireland was the lower house of the Parliament of Northern Ireland created under the '' Government of Ireland Act 1920''. The upper house in the bicameral parliament was called the Senate. It was abolished w ...

from 1929 until the Parliament was temporarily suspended in 1972, and then formally abolished in 1973. In terms of the then local government areas the constituency in 1929 comprised parts of the rural districts of

Ballymena Ballymena ( ; from ga, an Baile Meánach , meaning 'the middle townland') is a town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is part of the Borough of Mid and East Antrim. The town is built on land given to the Adair family by King Charles I i ...

Ballymoney Ballymoney ( ga, Baile Monaidh , meaning 'townland of the moor') is a small town and civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is within the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council area. The civil parish of Ballymoney is situated i ...

and

Larne Larne (, , the name of a Gaelic Ireland, Gaelic territory) is a town on the east coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, with a population of 18,755 at the United Kingdom census, 2011, 2011 Census. It is a major passenger and freight Roll-on/ro ...

. The division also included the whole of the

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Members of Parliament

Election results

* ''Parliament

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30 March 1972 and abolished 18 July 1973''

References

*''Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922'', edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978) *''Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume II 1886–1918'', edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (The Harvester Press 1978) *''Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume III 1919–1945'', edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (The Harvester Press 1979) * ''Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results 1921–1972'', compiled and edited by Sydney Elliott (Political Reference Publications 1973) {{DEFAULTSORT:Mid Antrim (Northern Ireland Parliament Constituency) Northern Ireland Parliament constituencies established in 1929 Constituencies of the Northern Ireland Parliament Historic constituencies in County Antrim Northern Ireland Parliament constituencies disestablished in 1973