Belfast North, was a former potential Dáil Éireann

Dáil Éireann

Dáil Éireann is the lower house, but principal chamber, of the Oireachtas , which also includes the President of Ireland and Seanad Éireann . It is directly elected at least once in every five years under the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote...

 parliamentary constituency. It was a Dáil constituency 1921-1922.

Politics of the constituency

Even in a proportional representation election the Unionists won all four seats. The Nationalist

Nationalist Party (Ireland)

The Nationalist Party was a term commonly used to describe a number of parliamentary political parties and constituency organisations supportive of Home Rule for Ireland from 1874 to 1922...

s and Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin

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 combined could not accumulate a quota of more than one-fifth of the votes.

Of the four Unionist MPs, Campbell and McKeown were businessmen whilst Grant and McGuffin were founder members of the Ulster Unionist Labour Association

Ulster Unionist Labour Association

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MPs

Key to parties: Ind Independent, N Nationalist

Nationalist Party (Ireland)

The Nationalist Party was a term commonly used to describe a number of parliamentary political parties and constituency organisations supportive of Home Rule for Ireland from 1874 to 1922...

, SF Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...

, U Ulster Unionist.

From	To	Name (Party)	Born	Died
1921	1922	Lloyd Campbell (U)	1868	20 February 1950
1921	1922	William Grant (U)	1877	15 August 1949
1921	1922	Samuel McGuffin Samuel McGuffin Samuel McGuffin was Labour Unionist MP for Belfast Shankill from 1918 to 1922, and Ulster Unionist MP for Belfast North from 1921 to 1925....  (U)	18 August 1863	21 November 1952
1921	1922	Robert John McKeown (U)	12 May 1869	9 April 1925

Elections

In 1921 parliamentary representatives of the constituency were elected using the single transferable vote

Single transferable vote

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 method of proportional representation

Proportional representation

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• 1921 (24 May) general election (4 seats)
• 43,194 electors; 39,851 voted; turnout 92.3%; quota 7,971
• First count
• L. Campbell (U) 12,875 (elected)
• S. McGuffin (U) 11,596 (elected)
• W. Grant (U) 6,148
• R.J. McKeown (U) 3,562
• M. Carolan (SF) 3,235
• F.P. Harkin (N) 1,509
• Rev. J.B. Wallace (Ind) 926
• Second count (distribution of Campbell's surplus)
• L. Campbell (U) (-4,904) 7,971 (elected)
• S. McGuffin (U) (..) 11,596 (elected)
• W. Grant (U) (+3,732) 9,880 (elected)
• R.J. McKeown (U) (+1,114) 4,676
• M. Carolan (SF) (+33) 3,268
• F.P. Harkin (N) (+7) 1,516
• Rev. J.B. Wallace (Ind) (+18) 944
• Third count (distribution of McGuffin's surplus)
• L. Campbell (U) (..) 7,971 (elected)
• S. McGuffin (U) (-3,625) 7,971 (elected)
• W. Grant (U) (..) 9,880 (elected)
• R.J. McKeown (U) (+3,587) 8,263 (elected)
• M. Carolan (SF) (+7) 3,275
• F.P. Harkin (N) (+3) 1,519
• Rev. J.B. Wallace (Ind) (+28) 972

External links

• http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0
• http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/en.toc.dail.html
• http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/stormont.html

See also

• Belfast North (UK Parliament constituency)
  Belfast North (UK Parliament constituency)
  Belfast North is a Parliamentary Constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons.-Boundaries:The seat was created in 1922 when, as part of the establishment of the devolved Stormont Parliament for Northern Ireland, the number of MPs in the Westminster Parliament was drastically cut...
  
  
• Belfast (Northern Ireland Parliament constituencies)
  Belfast (Northern Ireland Parliament constituencies)
  Belfast is the largest city and capital of Northern Ireland. It is partly located in County Antrim and partly in County Down.Belfast was represented in the Northern Ireland House of Commons 1921-1973. This article deals with the Belfast borough constituencies...
  
  
• List of Dáil Éireann constituencies in Ireland (historic)
• Dáil Éireann (1919-1922)
  Dáil Éireann (1919-1922)
  Dáil Éireann was the revolutionary, unicameral parliament of the unilaterally declared Irish Republic from 1919–1922. The Dáil was first formed by 73 Sinn Féin MPs elected in the 1918 United Kingdom general election. Their manifesto refused to recognise the British parliament at Westminster and...