Belfast Pottinger (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 54°35′38″N 5°53′53″W / 54.594°N 5.898°W / 54.594; -5.898

Belfast Pottinger
Former Borough Constituency for the Parliament of Northern Ireland
Belfast Pottinger shown within Belfast and Belfast shown within Northern Ireland
Former constituency
Created	1929
Abolished	1972
Election method	First past the post

Belfast Pottinger was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

Boundaries

Belfast Pottinger was a borough constituency comprising part of eastern Belfast. It was created in 1929, when the House of Commons (Method of Voting and Redistribution of Seats) Act (Northern Ireland) 1929 introduced first-past-the-post elections throughout Northern Ireland.

Belfast Pottinger was created by the division of Belfast East into four new constituencies. It survived unchanged, returning one member of Parliament, until the Parliament of Northern Ireland was temporarily suspended in 1972, and then formally abolished in 1973.^[1]

Politics

The seat was a stronghold for the labour movement, although Unionist candidates always polled well and were occasionally able to win the seat.^[1]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1929	Jack Beattie	Northern Ireland Labour
	1934		Independent Labour
	1942		Northern Ireland Labour
	1943		Independent Labour
	1945		Federation of Labour
	1949		Independent Labour
	1949	Samuel Rodgers	Ulster Unionist
	1958	Tom Boyd	Northern Ireland Labour
	1969	Joshua Cardwell	Ulster Unionist
1973		constituency abolished

Election results

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General Election 1929: Belfast Pottinger^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NI Labour	Jack Beattie	6,071	54.6	N/A
	UUP	James Augustine Duff	5,057	45.4	N/A
Majority			1,014	9.2	N/A
Turnout				76.0	N/A
	NI Labour hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1933: Belfast Pottinger^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NI Labour	Jack Beattie	5,753	53.6	-1.0
	UUP	Thomas Loftus Cole	4,978	46.4	+1.0
Majority			775	7.2	-2.0
Turnout				79.6	+3.6
	NI Labour hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1938: Belfast Pottinger^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Labour	Jack Beattie	5,480	52.2	-1.4
	UUP	Thomas Loftus Cole	5,011	47.8	+1.4
Majority			469	4.4	-2.8
Turnout				80.9	+1.4
	Independent Labour gain from NI Labour		Swing

General Election 1945: Belfast Pottinger^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Labour	Jack Beattie	5,952	52.5	+0.3
	UUP	Samuel Rodgers	4,474	47.5	-0.3
Majority			478	5.0	+0.6
Turnout				78.7	-2.2
	Independent Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1949: Belfast Pottinger^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Samuel Rodgers	6,262	62.9	+15.4
	Independent Labour	Jack Beattie	3,693	37.1	-15.4
Majority			2,569	25.8	+20.8
Turnout				82.7	+4.0
	UUP gain from Independent Labour		Swing

General Election 1953: Belfast Pottinger^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Samuel Rodgers	3,680	45.1	-17.8
	NI Labour	Tom Boyd	3,324	40.8	N/A
	Irish Labour	Jack Beattie	1,151	14.1	N/A
Majority			356	4.3	-21.5
Turnout				68.2	-14.5
	UUP hold		Swing

General Election 1958: Belfast Pottinger^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NI Labour	Tom Boyd	4,573	58.5	+17.7
	UUP	Samuel Rodgers	3,240	41.5	-3.6
Majority			1,333	17.0	+12.7
Turnout				71.8	+3.6
	NI Labour gain from UUP		Swing

General Election 1962: Belfast Pottinger^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NI Labour	Tom Boyd	4,674	62.4	+3.9
	UUP	Herbert Walker	2,822	37.6	-3.9
Majority			1,852	24.8	+7.8
Turnout				72.0	+0.2
	NI Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1965: Belfast Pottinger^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NI Labour	Tom Boyd	3,208	57.9	-4.5
	UUP	John Bannister	2,334	42.1	+4.5
Majority			874	15.8	-9.0
Turnout				58.9	-13.1
	NI Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1969: Belfast Pottinger^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Joshua Cardwell	2,902	51.4	+9.3
	NI Labour	Martin McBirney	2,744	48.6	-9.3
Majority			158	2.8	-13.0
Turnout				67.8	+8.9
	UUP gain from NI Labour		Swing

References

1 2 The Northern Ireland House of Commons, 1921-1972, Northern Ireland Elections
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Northern Ireland Parliamentary Elections Results: Boroughs: Belfast

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