Belfast South (Assembly constituency)

Constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly

Belfast South (Irish: Béal Feirste Theas, 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).

Members

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.

Elections

Northern Ireland Assembly

2022

2017

2016

2011

Note: Charles Smyth sought election as a Procapitalism candidate, and appeared as such on the ballot paper.

2007

2003

1998

1996 forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.^[8]

1984 by-election

1982

1975 Constitutional Convention

1973

References

1. "Statement of Persons Nominated – Belfast South". Retrieved 8 April 2022.
2. "NI Assembly Election 2017". EONI. Archived from the original on 19 August 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
3. "NI Assembly Election 2016". EONI. Archived from the original on 19 August 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
4. "NI Assembly Election 2011" (PDF). EONI. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 August 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
5. "NI Assembly Election 2007". EONI. Archived from the original on 19 August 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
6. "NI Assembly Election 2003". Archived from the original on 6 August 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
7. "NI Assembly Election 1998". EONI. Archived from the original on 20 March 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
8. 1996 Candidates – South Belfast Archived 22 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Northern Ireland Elections
9. "NI Assembly Election 1982". EONI. Archived from the original on 19 August 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
10. "NI Convention Election 1975". EONI. Archived from the original on 6 August 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
11. "NI Assembly Election 1973". EONI. Archived from the original on 6 August 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2021.

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