Queen's University of Belfast (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

Template:Northern Ireland Parliament constituency infobox Queen's University of Belfast was a university constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 until 1969. It returned four MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation. In 1969 the constituency was abolished under reforms carried out by the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill.

Boundaries

The constituency was not a physical area but was rather elected by the graduates of the Queen's University of Belfast.

Members of Parliament

Election	Member	Party		Member	Party		Member	Party		Member
MPs (1921)	John Campbell style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP	John Hanna Robb	rowspan=3 bgcolor=Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color\|	[[Ulster Unionist Party\|Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/shortname]]	Robert James Johnstone	rowspan=4 bgcolor=Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color\|	[[Ulster Unionist Party\|Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/shortname]]	Hugh Morrison style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP
MPs (1929)	Robert Corkey	rowspan=5 bgcolor=Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color\|		[[Ulster Unionist Party\|Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/shortname]]			Robert McNeill style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #aadfff;" data-sort-value="Independent Unionist" \|		Ind. Unionist
MPs (1935)		Arthur Brownlow Mitchell					rowspan=3 bgcolor=Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color\|		[[Ulster Unionist Party\|Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/shortname]]
MPs (1938)			John MacDermott		rowspan=4 bgcolor=Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color\|		[[Ulster Unionist Party\|Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/shortname]]
MPs (1938)					Howard Stevenson	rowspan=6 bgcolor=Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color\|		[[Ulster Unionist Party\|Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/shortname]]
MPs (1942)		William Lyle				rowspan=3 bgcolor=Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color\|			[[Ulster Unionist Party\|Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/shortname]]
MPs (1943)	John W. Renshaw			rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color\|		[[Ulster Unionist Party\|Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/shortname]]
MPs (1944)	John W. Renshaw		Herbert Quin	rowspan=3 bgcolor=Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color\|			[[Ulster Unionist Party\|Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/shortname]]
MPs (1945)	Frederick McSorley style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent		Irene Calvert		rowspan=4 bgcolor=Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color\|			[[Independent (politician)\|Template:Independent (politician)/meta/shortname]]
MPs 1948	Samuel Irwin	rowspan=5 bgcolor=Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color\|				[[Ulster Unionist Party\|Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/shortname]]
MPs (1949}		Eileen M. Hickey	rowspan=3 bgcolor=Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color\|		[[Independent (politician)\|Template:Independent (politician)/meta/shortname]]		William Lyle style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	UUP
MPs (1949)			Frederick Lloyd-Dodd				rowspan=4 bgcolor=Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color\|	[[Ulster Unionist Party\|Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/shortname]]
MPs (1953)				Elizabeth Maconachie			rowspan=5 bgcolor=Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color\|		[[Ulster Unionist Party\|Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/shortname]]
MPs (1958)		Charles Stewart			rowspan=3 bgcolor=Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color\|		[[Independent (politician)\|Template:Independent (politician)/meta/shortname]]
MPs (1961)	Sheelagh Murnaghan				rowspan=3 bgcolor=Template:Ulster Liberal Party/meta/color\|	[[Ulster Liberal Party\|Template:Ulster Liberal Party/meta/shortname]]
MPs (1962)			Harold McClure		rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color\|			[[Ulster Unionist Party\|Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/shortname]]
MPs (1966)		Robert Porter style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" \|	Harold McClure		UUP

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

1921 General Election: Queen's University of Belfast (4 seats)
Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	UUP	John Campbell	835	43.4	1	1
	UUP	John Hanna Robb	368	19.1	3	2
	UUP	Robert James Johnstone	279	14.5	2	2
	UUP	Hugh Morrison	243	12.6	4	3
	Sinn Féin	Sean Dolan	201	10.4		3
Turnout			1,926	76.2	N/A

At the Northern Ireland general election, 1925, John Campbell, Robert James Johnstone, Hugh Morrison and John Hanna Robb were elected unopposed.

1929 General Election: Queen's University of Belfast (4 seats)
Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	UUP	John Hanna Robb	528	24.9	1	1
	UUP	Robert Corkey	510	24.0	2	1
	Ind. Unionist	Robert McNeill	441	20.8	3	1
	UUP	Robert James Johnstone	340	16.0	4	3
	UUP	Arthur Brownlow Mitchell	302	14.2		3
Turnout			2,121	63.8	N/A

Elections in the 1930s

1933 General Election: Queen's University of Belfast (4 seats)
Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	UUP	Robert James Johnstone	695	29.5	1	1
	UUP	Robert Corkey	512	21.7	2	1
	UUP	John Hanna Robb	451	19.1	3	2
	Ind. Unionist	Robert McNeill	368	15.6	4	2
	Independent	Frederick McSorley	331	14.0		2
Turnout			2,357	62.0	− 1.8

At the Queen's University of Belfast by-election, 1935, Arthur Brownlow Mitchell was elected unopposed.

1938 General Election: Queen's University of Belfast (4 seats)
Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	UUP	Robert Corkey	608	24.8	1	1
	UUP	Robert James Johnstone	600	24.5	2	1
	UUP	Arthur Brownlow Mitchell	369	14.7	3	5
	Independent	Frederick McSorley	359			5
	Ind. Unionist	S. Sims	259	10.6		3
	UUP	John MacDermott	253	10.3	4	5
Turnout			2,448	61.1	− 0.9

At the Queen's University of Belfast by-election, 1938, Howard Stevenson was elected unopposed.

Elections in the 1940s

At the Queen's University of Belfast by-election, 1942, William Lyle was elected unopposed.

At the Queen's University of Belfast by-election, 1943, John W. Renshaw was elected unopposed.

Queen's University of Belfast by-election, 1944
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Herbert Quin	1,178	53.6	N/A
	Independent	Irene Calvert	1,020	46.4	N/A
Majority			158	71.9	N/A
Turnout			2,198	46.7	− 14.4
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

1945 General Election: Queen's University of Belfast (4 seats)
Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	Frederick McSorley	649	21.6	1	1
	UUP	Howard Stevenson	580	19.3	2	1
	Independent	Irene Calvert	570	18.9	3	1
	UUP	Herbert Quin	535	17.8	4	3
	UUP	E. B. Wallace	286	9.5		3
	UUP	William Lyle	279	9.3		3
	Ind. Unionist	S. Sims	109	3.6		2
Turnout			3,008	59.1	− 2.0

Queen's University of Belfast by-election, 1948
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Samuel Irwin	2,735	70.8	N/A
	Independent	Eileen M. Hickey	1,126	29.2	N/A
Majority			1,609	41.7	N/A
Turnout			3,861	57.4	− 1.7
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

1949 General Election: Queen's University of Belfast (4 seats)
Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	UUP	Samuel Irwin	1,662	31.7	1	1
	Independent	Eileen M. Hickey	1,073	20.5	2	1
	Independent	Irene Calvert	955	18.2	3	3
	UUP	E. B. Wallace	620	11.8		3
	UUP	William Lyle	588	11.2	4	3
	UUP	Howard Stevenson	339	6.5		2
Turnout			5,237	75.0	+ 15.9

Queen's University of Belfast by-election, 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Frederick Lloyd-Dodd	2,100	54.0	N/A
	Ind. Unionist	N. S. Dickson	1,312	33.7	N/A
	Independent	E. Reid	479	12.3	N/A
Majority			749	19.2	N/A
Turnout			3,891	54.2	− 20.8
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1950s

1953 General Election: Queen's University of Belfast (4 seats)
Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	UUP	Samuel Irwin	1,840	32.9	1	1
	Independent	Eileen M. Hickey	1,206	21.6	2	1
	UUP	Elizabeth Maconachie	940	16.8	4	2
	UUP	Frederick Lloyd-Dodd	706	12.6	3	2
	Independent	R. Appleton	539	9.6		2
	NI Labour	Sam Napier	297	5.3		2
Turnout			5,586	63.7	− 11.3

1958 General Election: Queen's University of Belfast (4 seats)
Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	UUP	Samuel Irwin	1,640	28.3	1	1
	Independent	Charles Stewart	1,218	21.0	2	1
	UUP	Elizabeth Maconachie	1,131	19.5	3	2
	Ulster Liberal	Albert McElroy	759	13.1		4
	UUP	Frederick Lloyd-Dodd	706	12.2	4	4
	NI Labour	S. J. Watt	345	5.9		2
Turnout			5,799	52.9	− 10.8

Elections in the 1960s

Queen's University of Belfast by-election, 1961
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ulster Liberal	Sheelagh Murnaghan	2,622	52.5	N/A
	UUP	S. Rodgers	2,370	47.5	N/A
Majority			252	5.0	N/A
Turnout			4,992	45.1	− 7.8
	Ulster Liberal gain from UUP		Swing	N/A

1962 General Election: Queen's University of Belfast (4 seats)
Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	UUP	Harold McClure	2,040	30.0	1	1
	Ulster Liberal	Sheelagh Murnaghan	1,698	24.9	2	1
	UUP	Elizabeth Maconachie	1,252	18.4	3	2
	Independent	Charles Stewart	1,220	17.9	4	3
	UUP	H. R. Brown	597	8.8		3
Turnout			6,807	53.8	+ 0.9

At the Northern Ireland general election, 1965, Harold McClure, Elizabeth Maconachie, Sheelagh Murnaghan and Charles Stewart were elected unopposed.

Queen's University of Belfast by-election, 1966
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Robert Porter	3,717	55.6	N/A
	Ulster Liberal	Albert McElroy	2,968	44.4	N/A
Majority			749	11.2	N/A
Turnout			6,685	48.7	N/A
	UUP gain from Independent		Swing	N/A

References

Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results: University

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