Carrick (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) explained

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

Carrick 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 elected 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, Belfast and Larne. The division also included the whole of the urban districts of Ballyclare and Carrickfergus.

After boundary changes in 1969, the constituency included parts of the rural districts of Antrim and Larne, the borough of Carrickfergus, the urban district of Ballyclare and part of the urban district of Carrickfergus.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1929	John Fawcett Gordon	Ulster Unionist Party
	1933
	1943	John Dermot Campbell
	1945	Lancelot Curran
	1945
	1949
	1950	Alexander Hunter
	1953
	1958
	1962
	1965	Austin Ardill
	1969	Anne Dickson
	1973	Constituency abolished

Elections

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

• Resignation of Gordon

• Death of Campbell

• Resignation of Curran on appointment as a Justice of the High Court

• Boundary changes

• Parliament prorogued 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)

External source

• For the exact definition of Northern Ireland constituency boundaries see http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/boundaries.html