1. Boundaries and Boundary Changes

2. Politics

3. First Dáil

4. Members of Parliament

5. Election

6. References

7. External links

8. See also

Shankill, a division of Belfast, was a UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom to 1918 to 1922, using the first past the post electoral system.

Boundaries and Boundary Changes

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918 from an area which had been in the Belfast North constituency. It comprised the western half of North Belfast, and contained the then Shankill ward and the south-western part of the then Clifton ward of Belfast Corporation not contained within the Belfast Duncairn constituency.^[1]

It was in use at the 1918 general election only, and under the Government of Ireland Act 1920 its area was again part of the Belfast North constituency, with effect at the 1922 general election.

Politics

The constituency was strongly unionist, but with significant labour support. The unionists ran a candidate from the Ulster Unionist Labour Association, a group affiliated with the Unionist Party, as a Labour Unionist. He easily won the seat. Sam Kyle, the Belfast Labour Party candidate, came in second place. Sinn Féin demonstrated republican weakness in the seat by receiving only 534 votes at the 1918 election.

First Dáil

After the 1918 election, Sinn Féin invited all those elected for constituencies in Ireland to sit as TDs in Dáil Éireann rather than in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.^[2] All those elected for Irish constituencies were included in the roll of the Dáil but only those elected for Sinn Féin sat in the First Dáil.^[3] In May 1921, the Dáil passed a resolution declaring that elections to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland would be used as the election for the Second Dáil and that the First Dáil would be dissolved on the assembly of the new body.^[4] The area of Belfast Shankill would then have been represented in the Dáil by the four-seat constituency of Belfast North, which also returned no representatives for Sinn Féin.

Members of Parliament

Election

References

• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume III 1919–1945, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (The Harvester Press 1979)
• (Information about boundaries of the constituency derived from the map of Northern Ireland Parliament constituencies (in force from 1921) and the wards included in the Belfast UK Parliament seats (in force 1922) for which see Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results 1921–1972, by Sydney Elliott (Political Reference Publications 1973) and Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885–1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1972) respective

External links

• The Irish General Election of 1918
• {{Rayment-hc|o|date=March 2012}}

See also

• List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies in Ireland and Northern Ireland
• List of MPs elected in the 1918 United Kingdom general election
• Historic Dáil constituencies

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