Queen's University of Belfast (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) should not be confused with Queen's University of Belfast (UK Parliament constituency).
| Queen's University of Belfast | |
| Type: | University |
| Parl Name: | Parliament of Northern Ireland |
| Year: | 1921 |
| Abolished: | 1969 |
| Blank1 Name: | Election method |
| Blank1 Info: | Single transferable vote |
Queen's University of Belfast was a university constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 until 1969. It returned four MPs, using proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote. In 1969 the constituency was abolished under the reforms carried out by the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill.
The constituency was created by the Government of Ireland Act 1920 and its four MPs were elected by the graduates of Queen's University of Belfast.
In May 1921, Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the self-declared Irish Republic run by Sinn Féin, passed a resolution declaring that elections to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland would be used as the election for the Second Dáil.[1] All those elected were on the roll of the Second Dáil, but as no Sinn Féin MP was elected for Queen's University, it was not represented there.[2]
| Election | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MPs (1921) | John Campbell | John Hanna Robb | Robert James Johnstone | Hugh Morrison | ||||||||
| MPs (1929) | Robert Corkey | Robert McNeill | ||||||||||
| MPs (1935) | Arthur Brownlow Mitchell | |||||||||||
| MPs (1938) | John MacDermott | |||||||||||
| MPs (1938) | Howard Stevenson | |||||||||||
| MPs (1942) | William Lyle | |||||||||||
| MPs (1943) | John W. Renshaw | |||||||||||
| MPs (1944) | Herbert Quin | |||||||||||
| MPs (1945) | Frederick McSorley | Irene Calvert | ||||||||||
| MPs 1948 | Samuel Irwin | |||||||||||
| MPs (1949) | Eileen M. Hickey | William Lyle | ||||||||||
| MPs (1949) | Frederick Lloyd-Dodd | |||||||||||
| MPs (1953) | Elizabeth Maconachie | |||||||||||
| MPs (1958) | Charles Stewart | |||||||||||
| MPs (1961) | Sheelagh Murnaghan | |||||||||||
| MPs (1962) | Ian McClure | |||||||||||
| MPs (1966) | Robert Porter | |||||||||||
At the 1925 Northern Ireland general election, John Campbell, Robert James Johnstone, Hugh Morrison and John Hanna Robb were elected unopposed.
At the 1935 Queen's University of Belfast by-election, Arthur Brownlow Mitchell was elected unopposed.
At the 1938 Queen's University of Belfast by-election, Howard Stevenson was elected unopposed.
At the 1942 Queen's University of Belfast by-election, William Lyle was elected unopposed.
At the 1943 Queen's University of Belfast by-election, John W. Renshaw was elected unopposed.
At the 1965 Northern Ireland general election, Harold McClure, Elizabeth Maconachie, Sheelagh Murnaghan and Charles Stewart were elected unopposed.