Belfast North is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
It was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election in 1973, which elected the then Northern Ireland Assembly. It usually shares boundaries with the Belfast North UK Parliament constituency. However, the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1973 to 1974, 1983 to 1986 and 2010 to 2011 (because 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.
For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see Belfast North (UK Parliament constituency).
Members
Election MLA (party) MLA (party) MLA (party) MLA (party) MLA (party) MLA (party) 1973Gerry Fitt(SDLP)Lloyd Hall-Thompson(UUP/UPNI) John Ferguson(Alliance Party)William Morgan(UUP)Frank Millar(UUP/Independent Unionist) John McQuade(DUP) 1975 Billy Bell(UUP) William Annon(DUP) 1982 Paschal O'Hare(SDLP) 5 seats1982–1998 Paul Maguire(Alliance Party) John Carson(UUP) George Seawright(DUP) 1996Gerry Kelly(Sinn Féin)Alban Maginness(SDLP) David Browne(UUP) Billy Snoddy(DUP)Nigel Dodds(DUP) 1998 Billy Hutchinson(PUP)Fred Cobain(UUP) Fraser Agnew(IndependentUnionist) 2003 Kathy Stanton(Sinn Féin)Nelson McCausland(DUP) 2007Carál Ní Chuilín(Sinn Féin) September 2010co-optionWilliam Humphrey(DUP) 2011Paula Bradley(DUP) 2016Nichola Mallon(SDLP) 2017 5 seats2017–present 2022 Nuala McAllister(Alliance Party) Phillip Brett(DUP) Brian Kingston(DUP) 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
2027
2022
2017
2016
2011
2007
2003
1998
1996 forum Successful candidates are shown in bold.1996 Candidates – North Belfast , Northern Ireland Elections
Party Candidate(s) Votes Percentage Nigel DoddsBilly SnoddyDavid SmylieWilliam Henry De Courcy7,77819.2 Gerry KellyJoe AustinChristine BeattieBobby LaveryEoghan McCormain7,68119.0 Alban MaginnessMartin MorganGeraldine LeonardShelagh McGladePeter Coll7,49318.5 David BrowneFred CobainNelson McCauslandDennis Robinson6,93817.2 Billy HutchinsonMichael AchesonRobert Gourley3,7779.3 John White*Thomas EnglishThomasena LivingstonePatrick BirdJohn English1,8744.6 Nicholas WhyteTommy FrazerLindsay Whitcroft1,6704.1 Derek PetersAmy Corry1,3293.3 Mark LanghammerMarion MorrisonKevin LawrenceMartin StroudJohn Simpson5711.4 Brenda CallaghanLynda WalkerEileen CalderRoisin O'HaganFreda Brown4861.2 Margaret SmithPaul Treanor2740.7 Peter EmersonRosemary Warren2650.7 Seamus LynchJohn McLaughlin1230.4 Andrew ThompsonSarah Thompson630.2 Norman McClellandDavid Kerr410.1 McMullanWesley HolmesHelen CraigStanley Simons250.1 ChambersJoe CoggleSally Irvine210.1
*John White was elected as one of the 20 top-up candidates for Northern Ireland.
1982 Northern Ireland Assembly
1975 Constitutional Convention
1973 Assembly election
References