1. 2017 General Election

2. Historical representation by party
     1801 to 1832 (22 MPs)    Antrim    Londonderry   Tyrone  Armagh  Down   Fermanagh   1832 to 1885 (29 MPs)   Antrim    Londonderry   Tyrone  Armagh  Down   Fermanagh    1885 to 1918 (25 MPs)    Antrim    Armagh    Belfast    Down    Fermanagh    Londonderry    Tyrone    1918 to 1922 (29 MPs)    1922 to 1950 (13 MPs)   1950 to 1983 (12 MPs)  1983 to present (17, then 18 MPs) 

3. 2018 Review

4. See also

5. External links

6. References

Northern Ireland is divided into 18 Parliamentary constituencies: 4 borough constituencies in Belfast and 14 county constituencies elsewhere. Section 33 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 provides that the constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly are the same as the constituencies that are used for the United Kingdom Parliament.^[1] Parliamentary constituencies are not used for local government, which is instead carried out by 11 district councils; these often have different boundaries.

Each constituency returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons at Westminster and five Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) to the devolved Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont. Six MLAs were returned per constituency until the Assembly Members (Reduction of Numbers) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 reduced the number to five, effective from the 2017 Assembly election.^[2]{{colbegin|colwidth=15em}}

• Belfast East
• Belfast North
• Belfast South
• Belfast West
• East Antrim
• East Londonderry
• Fermanagh & South Tyrone
• Foyle
• Lagan Valley
• Mid Ulster
• Newry & Armagh
• North Antrim
• North Down
• South Antrim
• South Down
• Strangford
• Upper Bann
• West Tyrone

2017 General Election

Historical representation by party

Where a cell is marked → (with a different colour of frame to the preceding cell) it indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party affiliation. Changes are dated in the header row: either a general election (four-figure year, bold, link) or by-election or change in affiliation (two-figure year, italic, link or details appear on hover).

1801 to 1832 (22 MPs)

Antrim

Londonderry

• Sir George Hill, 2nd Baronet, was elected to sit as MP for both Coleraine and Londonderry City in the 1806 general election and chose to continue to sit for Londonderry City, hence the 1807 by-election, in which Walter Jones was restored to his seat.

Tyrone

• At both the 1802 and 1806 elections, George Knox was returned for both Dungannon and Dublin University and chose to sit for the university seat.

Armagh

• Charles Brownlow was initially elected as a Tory but at some point changed his affiliation to sit with the Whigs.

Down

• The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith suggests that after the 1806 election there was a petition, which led to Edward Southwell Ruthven (Whig) being unseated and John Wilson Croker (Tory) being declared duly elected. Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922, edited by BM Walker, does not make any reference to such a petition.

Fermanagh

1832 to 1885 (29 MPs)

Antrim

Londonderry

• unseated on petition

Tyrone

Armagh

Down

Fermanagh

1885 to 1918 (25 MPs)

Antrim

Armagh

Belfast

Down

Fermanagh

Londonderry

Tyrone

1918 to 1922 (29 MPs)

1922 to 1950 (13 MPs)

1950 to 1983 (12 MPs)

Periodic boundary reviews commenced in 1947.^[6][7] The elections at which these were implemented are tagged with diamond suit characters, ♦.

Notes:

1. The constituency was won by Philip Clarke of Sinn Féin, but he was unseated on petition on the basis that his criminal conviction (for Irish Republican Army activity) made him ineligible. Instead, the seat was awarded to the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) candidate.
2. The seat was originally won by Tom Mitchell of Sinn Féin, but Mitchell was subsequently unseated upon petition, on the grounds that his terrorist convictions made him ineligible to sit in Parliament. The seat was awarded to Charles Beattie of the UUP. However, Beattie in turn was also found ineligible to sit due to holding an office of profit under the crown, triggering a further by-election.
3. Original winner of the 1950 election in that seat, James Godfrey MacManaway (UUP), disqualified due to being a clergyman. Teevan won the subsequent by-election

1983 to present (17, then 18 MPs)

¹Paisley Jr was suspended from the DUP between July and November 2018.

2018 Review

In September 2016 as part of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland provisionally proposed a new set of boundaries for a 17-constituency Northern Ireland:^[9] {{colbegin|colwidth=15em}}

• Belfast East
• Belfast North West
• Belfast South West
• Dalriada
• East Antrim
• Fermanagh and South Tyrone
• Foyle
• Glenshane
• Newry and Armagh
• North Down
• North Tyrone
• South Antrim
• South Down
• Strangford
• Upper Bann and Blackwater
• West Antrim
• West Down

Following two public consultation periods, a set of revised proposals was published on 20 January 2018. Belfast was restored to four seats, and changes elsewhere were scaled back:^[10] {{colbegin|colwidth=15em}}

• Belfast East
• Belfast North
• Belfast South
• Belfast West
• Causeway
• East Antrim
• Fermanagh and South Tyrone
• Foyle
• Mid Antrim
• Mid Down
• Mid Ulster
• Newry and Armagh
• North Down
• South Antrim
• South Down
• Upper Bann
• West Tyrone

Following a final consultation period, the Commission is due to submit a final report to the Secretary of State by 1 October 2018.^[11]

See also

• Politics of Northern Ireland

External links

• [https://www.boundarycommission.org.uk/sites/boundarycommission.org.uk/files/media-files/2018%20Review%20Provisional%20Proposals%20map.jpg Map of the Provisional Proposals for NI, for the 2018 Review of Parliamentary Constituencies] Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland
• [https://apps.spatialni.gov.uk/Other/BCNIApplicationRevised/index.html Interactive map of the 2018 Revised Proposals] Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland / Spatial NI
• List of changes to constituency boundaries: section 6 of Parliamentary constituency boundaries: the Fifth Periodical Review House of Commons Library

References

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