Bannside (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) explained

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Bannside
Type:County
Parl Name:Parliament of Northern Ireland
Year:1929
Abolished:1973
Blank1 Name:Election method
Blank1 Info:First past the post

Bannside was a single-member county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

Boundaries and Boundary Changes

This was a division of County Antrim. Before 1929 it was part of the seven-member Antrim constituency. The constituency sent one MP to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 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 Antrim, Ballymena and Ballymoney.

After boundary changes in 1969 the constituency included parts of the same Rural Districts but Bannside was extended to take in the northern part of the 1929–1969 Antrim Borough constituency.

Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
1929George Charles Gillespie Young
1938
1939Malcolm William Patrick
1945
1946Terence O'Neill
1949
1953
1958
1962
1965
1969
1970Ian PaisleyProtestant Unionist
1971Democratic Unionist
1973constituency abolished

Elections

The parliamentary representatives of the division were elected using the first past the post system.

Peerage title

When Ian Paisley was created a life peer in 2010, the took his title of Baron Bannside, of North Antrim in the County of Antrim from the constituency he had won in 1970.

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