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Queen's University of Belfast (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Queen's University, Belfast University constituency |
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| Created: | 1918 |
| Abolished: | 1950 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
Queen's University of Belfast was a university constituency in both the United Kingdom Parliament (from 1918 until 1950) and the Parliament of Northern Ireland (from 1921 until 1969).
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The constituency was not a physical area but was rather elected by the graduates of the Queen's University of Belfast.
The constituency returned one member to Westminster and four to Stormont, with the latter elected by Single Transferable Vote.
- 1918 - 1940 (resignation) Thomas Sinclair Ulster Unionist Party
- 1940 (by-election) - 1950 Professor Douglas Lloyd Savory Ulster Unionist Party
University constituencies had existed in the United Kingdom Parliament and its predecessors since 1603 and in 1918 Queen's was enfranchised as such. When the Parliament of Northern Ireland was established, the same franchise was preserved - see Queen's University of Belfast (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency).
As with most other Northern Ireland seats in this period, the electorate was heavily inclined towards the Ulster Unionists, with no contests for the Westminster seat taking place at all in the interwar years.
In the late 1940s legislation was passed to abolish the university constituencies at Westminster.
| General Election, 1945: Queen's University of Belfast | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Ulster Unionist | Douglas Lloyd Savory | 1,923 | 72.5 | ||
| Independent | T. Cusack | 728 | 27.5 | ||
| Majority | 1,195 | 45.1 | |||
| Turnout | 51.6 | ||||
| Ulster Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Categories: History of Northern Ireland | Queen's University Belfast | University constituencies in the United Kingdom | Westminster constituencies in Northern Ireland (historic) | Dáil Éireann constituencies in Northern Ireland (historic) | United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1918 | United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1950