| Belfast South | |
| Type: | Northern Ireland Assembly Parliamentary |
| Year: | 1973 |
| Members Label: | MLAs |
| Seats: | 6 (1998–2016) 5 (2017–) |
| Local Council Label: | City council |
| Local Council: | Belfast City Council |
| Blank1 Name: | Boundaries |
Belfast South (Ulster Scots: Bilfawst Sooth) is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973. It usually shares boundaries with the Belfast South UK Parliament constituency, however the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1983 to 1986 and 2010–2011 as the Assembly boundaries had not caught up with Parliamentary boundary changes and from 1996 to 1997 when members of the Northern Ireland Forum had been elected from the newly drawn Parliamentary constituencies but the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected in 1992 under the 1983–95 constituency boundaries, was still in session.
Members were then elected from the constituency to the 1975 Constitutional Convention, the 1982 Assembly, the 1996 Forum and then to the current Assembly from 1998.
The constituency is formed from the Belfast City Council districts of Balmoral and Botanic as well as one ward from Titanic and a number of wards from Lisnasharragh and Lisburn and Castlereagh. For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see Belfast South (UK Parliament constituency).
Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns. For details of the order in which seats were won at each election, see the detailed results of that election.
Note: Charles Smyth sought election as a Procapitalism candidate, and appeared as such on the ballot paper.
Successful candidates are shown in bold.[1]
| Party | Candidate(s) | Votes | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Stoker Jim Clarke Michael McGimpsey Drew Nelson Gordon Lucy | 8,617 | 22.8 | ||
| Alasdair McDonnell Peter O'Reilly Carmel Hanna Douglas Arthur Hegney Rosaleen Hughes | 7,956 | 21.0 | ||
| Joan Parkes Thomas Scott John Norris | 5,818 | 15.4 | ||
| Steve McBride Philip McGarry Margaret Marshall | 4,689 | 12.4 | ||
| Sean Hayes Sean Clinton Deborah Moore | 2,455 | 6.5 | ||
| Dawn Purvis Victor Murphy | 2,321 | 6.1 | ||
| Patrick Roche Kate Garrett | 1,750 | 4.6 | ||
| David Adams Pauline Gilmore | 1,666 | 4.4 | ||
| Kate Fearon Annie Campbell Barbara McCabe Clare McLaughlin Fidelma O'Gorman | 947 | 2.5 | ||
| Peter Hadden Eleanor Rogers Niall Cusack Neil House Maeve Cross | 333 | 0.9 | ||
| Mary Carberry Jane Carney Owen Clarke Andy Frew | 314 | 0.8 | ||
| Myrtle Boal Alan McKelvey | 279 | 0.7 | ||
| Paddy Lynn Ian Foster | 270 | 0.7 | ||
| Paul Smyth Alison Wilson | 133 | 0.4 | ||
| Gordon Smyth Samuel Stevenson | 108 | 0.3 | ||
| Jean Craig Chris Skillen | 96 | 0.3 | ||
| Ulster Christian Democratic | Austin Scallan Martine McLaughlin John McLaughlin Brian McLaughlin Margaret Gibson | 31 | 0.1 | |
| James Anderson Morris Ahmed | 13 | 0.0 | ||
| Chambers | Bertha Burleigh Mark Strain | 5 | 0.0 | |