Queen's University of Belfast was a university constituency

University constituency

A university constituency is a constituency, used in elections to a legislature, that represents a university rather than a geographical area. University constituencies may involve plural voting, in which eligible voters are permitted to vote in both a university constituency and a geographical...

 of the Parliament of Northern Ireland

Parliament of Northern Ireland

The Parliament of Northern Ireland was the home rule legislature of Northern Ireland, created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, which sat from 7 June 1921 to 30 March 1972, when it was suspended...

 from 1921 until 1969. It returned four MPs, using the single transferable vote

Single transferable vote

The single transferable vote is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through preferential voting. Under STV, an elector's vote is initially allocated to his or her most preferred candidate, and then, after candidates have been either elected or eliminated, any surplus or...

 method of proportional representation

Proportional representation

Proportional representation is a concept in voting systems used to elect an assembly or council. PR means that the number of seats won by a party or group of candidates is proportionate to the number of votes received. For example, under a PR voting system if 30% of voters support a particular...

. In 1969 the constituency was abolished under reforms carried out by the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland

Prime Minister of Northern Ireland

The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland was the de facto head of the Government of Northern Ireland. No such office was provided for in the Government of Ireland Act 1920. However the Lord Lieutenant, as with Governors-General in other Westminster Systems such as in Canada, chose to appoint someone...

 Terence O'Neill

Terence O'Neill

Terence Marne O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, PC was the fourth Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the Ulster Unionist Party...

.

Boundaries

The constituency was not a physical area but was a university constituency

University constituency

A university constituency is a constituency, used in elections to a legislature, that represents a university rather than a geographical area. University constituencies may involve plural voting, in which eligible voters are permitted to vote in both a university constituency and a geographical...

, elected by the graduates of the Queen's University of Belfast.

Members of Parliament

Election	Member	Party		Member	Party		Member	Party		Member	Party
MPs MPs elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1921 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1921.All members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons elected at the Northern Ireland general election, 1921 are listed. Only Unionist members took their seats....   (1921)	John Campbell	John Hanna Robb John Hanna Robb John Hanna Robb was a Northern Irish barrister and Ulster Unionist Party politician.The son of Rev. J. Gardner Robb, DD, LLD, Robb was educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Queen's College, Belfast and called to the Bar at Gray's Inn and King's Inns, Dublin in 1898.He was a Stormont MP...		Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...	Robert James Johnstone		Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...	Hugh Morrison
MPs MPs elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1929 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1929. Elections to the 3rd Northern Ireland House of Commons were held on 22 May 1929....   (1929 Northern Ireland general election, 1929 -References:*... )	Robert Corkey Robert Corkey The Very Rev. Professor Robert Corkey, PC , was a Presbyterian minister, a professor of theology and a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland....								Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...	Robert McNeill
MPs  (1935)										Arthur Brownlow Mitchell		Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
MPs MPs elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1938 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1938.All members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons elected at the Northern Ireland general election, 1938 are listed.-Members:-Changes:...   (1938 Northern Ireland general election, 1938 -References:*... )		John MacDermott John MacDermott, Baron MacDermott John Clarke MacDermott, Baron MacDermott, MC PC was a Northern Irish politician and lawyer who was Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland from 1951 to 1971....		Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
MPs (1938)					Howard Stevenson		Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
MPs (1942)										William Lyle		Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
MPs (1943)	John W. Renshaw								Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
MPs (1944)		Herbert Quin Herbert Quin Herbert Quin was a unionist politician and barrister in Northern Ireland.Quin studied at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Queen's University Belfast before joining the Irish Bar. He was also a chartered accountant. In 1944, he was elected as an Ulster Unionist Party MP for the...		Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
MPs MPs elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1945 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1945.All members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons elected at the Northern Ireland general election, 1945 are listed.-Members:-Changes:...   (1945)	Frederick McSorley							Irene Calvert Irene Calvert Irene Calvert was a Northern Irish politician and economist.Born in Belfast, as Lilian Irene Mercer Earls, she studied at Methodist College, Belfast. Leaving school at the age of 18 she worked for some years in various stores, before going to Queen's University, Belfast from 1933 to 1936 to study...		Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...
MPs 1948	Samuel Irwin											Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
MPs MPs elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1949 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1949.All members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons elected at the Northern Ireland general election, 1949 are listed.-Members:-Changes:...   (1949 Northern Ireland general election, 1949 -References:*-See also:*MPs elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1949... }		Eileen M. Hickey Eileen M. Hickey Eileen M. Hickey was a politician in Northern Ireland.Hickey studied at Queen's University Belfast, where she received a BSc, MD and DPH, before working as a civil servant at the Mater Hospital in Belfast...		Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	William Lyle
MPs (1949)					Frederick Lloyd-Dodd		Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
MPs MPs elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1953 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1953.All members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons elected at the Northern Ireland general election, 1953 are listed.-Members:-Changes:...   (1953 Northern Ireland general election, 1953 -References:*... )								Elizabeth Maconachie Elizabeth Maconachie Elizabeth Hamill Maconachie, known as Bessie Maconachie, was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Maconachie studied at Queen's University Belfast, then worked as a schoolteacher. At the Northern Ireland general election, 1953, she was elected as an Ulster Unionist Party MP for the Queen's...		Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
MPs MPs elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1958 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1958.All members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons elected at the Northern Ireland general election, 1958 are listed.-Members:...   (1958 Northern Ireland general election, 1958 -References:*-See also:*MPs elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1958... )		Charles Stewart Charles Stewart (Northern Ireland politician) Charles Stewart QC was a barrister and independent politician in Northern Ireland.Stewart was elected for the Queen's University of Belfast at the Northern Ireland general election, 1958. Independent politician Eileen M. Hickey, known for her Irish nationalist sympathies, had chosen not to contest...		Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...
MPs (1961)	Sheelagh Murnaghan Sheelagh Murnaghan Sheelagh Mary Murnaghan was an Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland at Stormont....											Ulster Liberal Party The Ulster Liberal Party was a liberal political party in Northern Ireland, supporting a unionist position and linked to the British Liberal Party....
MPs MPs elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1962 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1962.All members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons elected at the Northern Ireland general election, 1962 are listed.-Members:-Changes:...   (1962 Northern Ireland general election, 1962 -Seats summary:-References:*... )					Ian McClure Ian McClure Harold Ian McClure , known as Ian McClure, was a surgeon and politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Dundonald, McClure studied at Campbell College, then at Queen's University, Belfast. He first graduated in medicine, then in pathology, bacteriology and biochemistry...		Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
MPs  (1966)		Robert Porter Robert Porter (politician) Sir Robert Wilson Porter PC , QC is a former politician and barrister in Northern Ireland.Born in Derry, Porter studied at Foyle College and Queen's University Belfast before in 1943 joining the Royal Air Force, and serving until 1946...

Elections in the 1920s

At the Northern Ireland general election, 1925

Northern Ireland general election, 1925

The Northern Ireland general election, 1925 was held on 3 April 1925. It was the second election to the Parliament of Northern Ireland. It saw significant losses for the Ulster Unionist Party, although they maintained their large majority. This was the last election for the Stormont parliament...

, John Campbell, Robert James Johnstone, Hugh Morrison and John Hanna Robb

John Hanna Robb

John Hanna Robb was a Northern Irish barrister and Ulster Unionist Party politician.The son of Rev. J. Gardner Robb, DD, LLD, Robb was educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Queen's College, Belfast and called to the Bar at Gray's Inn and King's Inns, Dublin in 1898.He was a Stormont MP...

 were elected unopposed.

Elections in the 1930s

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

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.

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

At the Northern Ireland general election, 1965

Northern Ireland general election, 1965

-Seats summary:-References:*...

, Harold McClure, Elizabeth Maconachie

Elizabeth Maconachie

Elizabeth Hamill Maconachie, known as Bessie Maconachie, was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Maconachie studied at Queen's University Belfast, then worked as a schoolteacher. At the Northern Ireland general election, 1953, she was elected as an Ulster Unionist Party MP for the Queen's...

, Sheelagh Murnaghan

Sheelagh Murnaghan

Sheelagh Mary Murnaghan was an Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland at Stormont....

 and Charles Stewart

Charles Stewart (Northern Ireland politician)

Charles Stewart QC was a barrister and independent politician in Northern Ireland.Stewart was elected for the Queen's University of Belfast at the Northern Ireland general election, 1958. Independent politician Eileen M. Hickey, known for her Irish nationalist sympathies, had chosen not to contest...

 were elected unopposed.