Belfast South (Assembly constituency)

Belfast South
Borough Constituency for the Northern Ireland Assembly
Belfast South shown within Northern Ireland
Districts	Belfast, Castlereagh
Current constituency
Created	1973
Assembly Members	Anna Lo (Alliance) Máirtín Ó Muilleoir (Sinn Féin) Michael McGimpsey (UUP) Fearghal McKinney (SDLP) Claire Hanna (SDLP) Emma Pengelly (DUP)

Belfast South is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973. It usually shares boundaries with the Belfast South UK Parliament constituency, however the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1983 to 1986 and 2010-2011 as 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.

The constituency is primarily formed from the Belfast City Council districts of Balmoral, Laganbank and as well as a number of wards from Pottinger and Castlereagh Borough Council. For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see Belfast South (UK Parliament constituency).

Members

Northern Ireland Assembly (1973)

In 1973, elections were held to the Assembly set up under the Sunningdale Agreement. The six members elected from Belfast South were:

Election	MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)
1973		Nelson Elder (UUP)		Herbert Kirk (UUP)		Reginald Magee (UUP)		Basil McIvor (UUP)		Basil Glass (Alliance Party)		Edward Burns (DUP)
1973	Pro-Sunningdale

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.

Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention (1975)

In 1975, elections were held to a Constitutional Convention which sought (unsuccessfully) to generate a consensus on the future of the province. The six members elected from Belfast South were:

Election	Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)
1975		David Trimble (Vanguard)		Jeremy Burchill (UUP)		Martin Smyth (UP)		Basil Glass (Alliance)		Jim Hendron (Alliance Party)		Edward Burns (DUP)

Northern Ireland Assembly (1982)

In 1982, elections were held for an Assembly for Northern Ireland to hold the Secretary of State to account, in the hope that this would be the first step towards restoring devolution. Belfast South elected 5 members as follows:

Election	MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)
1982		Raymond McCrea (DUP)		Martin Smyth (UUP)		Edgar Graham (UUP)		Jim Kirkpatrick (UUP)		David Cook (Alliance Party)

Changes 1982–1986

Edgar Graham, Ulster Unionist Party assassinated by the IRA on 7 December 1983. Frank Millar Jr, also Ulster Unionist Party, elected unopposed in by-election on 1 March 1984.

Northern Ireland Forum (1996)

In the 1996 election to the Northern Ireland Peace Forum, 5 Forum members were elected from Belfast South. They were as follows:

Election	Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)
1996		Joan Parkes (DUP)		Alasdair McDonnell (SDLP)		Bob Stoker (UUP)		Jim Clarke (UUP)		Steve McBride (Alliance Party)

Northern Ireland Assembly (1998–present)

Election
1998	Alasdair McDonnell (SDLP)	Carmel Hanna (SDLP)	Michael McGimpsey (UUP)	Esmond Birnie (UUP)	Monica McWilliams (NI Women's Coalition)	Mark Robinson (DUP)
2003				Esmond Birnie (UUP)	Alex Maskey (Sinn Féin)	Mark Robinson (DUP)
2007				Anna Lo (Alliance Party)		Jimmy Spratt (DUP)
January 2010 co-option		Conall McDevitt (SDLP)
2011		Conall McDevitt (SDLP)
September 2013 co-option		Fearghal McKinney (SDLP)
October 2014 co-option					Máirtín Ó Muilleoir (Sinn Féin)
June 2015 co-option	Claire Hanna (SDLP)
September 2015 co-option	Claire Hanna (SDLP)					Emma Pengelly (DUP)

Elections

Northern Ireland Assembly

2016

2016 Assembly election: Belfast South – 6 Seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1
	Sinn Féin	Máirtín Ó Muilleoir		5,207
	SDLP	Claire Hanna		4,516
	DUP	Emma Pengelly		4,511
	DUP	Christopher Stalford		3,570
	Green (NI)	Clare Bailey		3,521
	Alliance	Paula Bradshaw		3,332
	SDLP	Fearghal McKinney		2,845
	Alliance	Duncan Morrow		2,691
	UUP	Rodney McCune		2,466
	Labour Alternative	Seán Burns		871
	UKIP	Bob Stoker		794
	TUV	John Hiddleston		495
	Independent	Ruth Patterson		475
	PUP	Ian Shanks		430
	Independent	William Dickson		351
	NI Labour	Brigitte Anton		246
	Workers' Party	Lily Kerr		241
	NI Conservatives	Ben Manton		161

2011

2011 Assembly Election: Belfast South^[1]^[2]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Alliance	Anna Lo	19.8	6,390
	SDLP	Alasdair McDonnell	14.0	4,527	4,916.10
	UUP	Michael McGimpsey	9.2	2,988	3,208.80	3,241.05	3,322.95	4,622.05
	Sinn Féin	Alex Maskey	12.5	4,038	4,124.70	4,138.45	4,268.15	4,452.05
	SDLP	Conall McDevitt	9.9	3,191	3.510.50	3,687.25	3,852.10	4,444.80
	DUP	Jimmy Spratt	12.5	4,045	4,098.70	4,103.45	4,163.85	4,281.45
	DUP	Ruth Patterson	11.8	3,800	3,887.00	3,893.75	3,953.05	4,163.40
	Green (NI)	Clare Bailey	2.8	889	1,226.80	1,263.55	1,655.60
	UUP	Mark Finlay	4.3	1,394	1,554.50	1,567.00	1,617.70
	People Before Profit	Brian Faloon	1.3	414	475.80	480.05
	Socialist Party	Paddy Meehan	0.7	234	252.00	255.00
	UKIP	Nico Torregrosa	0.7	234	244.50	245.00
	Workers' Party	Paddy Lynn	0.5	135	155.40	158.90
	Independent	Charles Smyth	0.1	29	33.50	33.50
Electorate: 62,484 Valid: 32,308 Spoilt: 444 Quota: 4,616 Turnout: 32,752 (52.42%)

Note: Charles Smyth sought election as a Procapitalism candidate, and appeared as such on the ballot paper.

2007

2007 Assembly election: South Belfast – 6 Seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10
	DUP	Jimmy Spratt	15.7%	4,762
	SDLP	Alasdair McDonnell	14.4%	4,379
	Alliance	Anna Lo	12.6%	3,829	3,831	3,834	3,853	3,908	3,956	4,046	4,415
	UUP	Michael McGimpsey	8.7%	2,647	2,656	2,657	2,663	2,686	2,691	2,802	2,837	3,472	4,927
	SDLP	Carmel Hanna	12.4%	3,748	3,749	3,780	3,786	3,815	3,849	3,856	4,063	4,077	4,262
	Sinn Féin	Alex Maskey	13.2%	3,996	3,996	4,002	4,004	4,022	4,052	4,065	4,153	4,162	4,167
	DUP	Christopher Stalford	6.7%	2,035	2,387	2,388	2,398	2,410	2,421	2,656	2,684	2,932	3,275
	UUP	Esmond Birnie	5.9%	1,804	1,807	1,807	1,807	1,827	1,838	1,920	1,958	2,252
	UUP	Bob Stoker	3.7%	1,122	1,131	1,132	1,135	1,138	1,143	1,254	1,268
	Green (NI)	Brenda Cooke	2.4%	737	737	737	763	787	876	907
	PUP	Andrew Park	1.4%	410	412	413	416	425	436
	UK Unionist	David Hoey	1.0%	298	299	299	302	309	322
	Socialist Party	Jim Barbour	0.8%	248	248	248	253	277
	Workers' Party	Patrick Lynn	0.4%	123	123	123	126
	NI Conservatives	Roger Lomas	0.4%	108	108	108	108
	Make Politicians History	Rainbow George	0.2%	66	66	66
	Independent	Charles Smyth	0.1%	22	22	22
	Independent	Geoffrey Wilson	0.03%	10	10	10
Electorate: 48,923 Valid: 30,344 Spoilt: 189 (0.62%) Quota: 4,335 Turnout: 62.41%

2003

2003 Assembly election: South Belfast – 6 Seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11	Count 12
	UUP	Michael McGimpsey	17.2%	5,389
	DUP	Mark Robinson	12.7%	3,991	4,024	4,024	4,025	4,040	4,049	4,151	4,155	4,247	4,268	6,661
	UUP	Esmond Birnie	7.4%	2,311	2,863	2,863	2,866	2,922	2,939	3,038	3,088	3,871	4,312	4,536
	SDLP	Carmel Hanna	12.5%	3,910	3,923	3,926	3,936	3,953	3,982	3,991	4,056	4,063	4,333	4,338	4,405
	Sinn Féin	Alex Maskey	12.6%	3,933	3,936	3,938	3,948	3,969	3,988	3,990	3,992	3,992	4,004	4,012	4,013
	SDLP	Alasdair McDonnell	10.3%	3,226	3,283	3,287	3,307	3,317	3,340	3,351	3,381	3,390	3,589	3,600	3,650
	NI Women's Coalition	Monica McWilliams	6.9%	2,150	2,180	2,185	2,203	2,248	2,388	2,431	2,518	2,542	3,168	3,209	3,523
	DUP	Ruth Patterson	8.1%	2,538	2,557	2,557	2,557	2,576	2,580	2,680	2,683	2,819	2,839
	Alliance	Geraldine Rice	3.8%	1,185	1,999	1,202	1,203	1,215	1,270	1,285	1,747	1,763
	UUP	John Hiddlestone	2.5%	769	969	970	971	991	996	1,090	1,111
	Alliance	Tom Ekin	2.1%	664	673	674	679	698	726	740
	PUP	Thomas Morrow	1.6%	495	510	510	512	521	529
	Green (NI)	John Wright	1.0%	308	309	325	330	368
	Socialist Party	Jim Barbour	0.5%	167	168	170	181
	NI Conservatives	Roger Lomas	0.4%	116	119	120	120
	Workers' Party	Patrick Lynn	0.3%	96	96	97
	Rainbow Dream Ticket	Lindsay Steven	0.1%	42	42
Electorate: 50,707 Valid: 31,330 Spoilt: 407 (1.28%) Quota: 4,476 Turnout: 62.59%

1998

1998 Assembly election: South Belfast – 6 Seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10
	UUP	Michael McGimpsey	12.1%	4,938	5,032	5,183	5,358	5,898
	SDLP	Alasdair McDonnell	12.2%	4,956	5,039	5,042	5,059	5,073	5,963
	DUP	Mark Robinson	7.1%	2,872	2,940	3,484	3,629	3,779	3,781	4,351	6,524
	UUP	Esmond Birnie	7.1%	2,875	2,980	3,065	3,499	4,389	4,392	5,267	5,881
	NI Women's Coalition	Monica McWilliams	9.6%	3,912	4,053	4,067	4,112	4,157	4,675	5,077	5,118	5,238	5,277
	SDLP	Carmel Hanna	9.5%	3,882	3,923	3,927	3,954	3,968	4,791	4,851	4,866	4,891	4,983
	Alliance	Steve McBride	10.0%	4,086	4,187	4,203	4,236	4,331	4,374	4,616	4,670	4,826	4,832
	DUP	Myreve Chambers	6.0%	2,449	2,505	3,011	3,205	3,314	3,318	3,510
	PUP	Ernie Purvis	5.2%	2,112	2,187	2,230	2,721	2,823	2,855
	Sinn Féin	Sean Hayes	6.4%	2,605	2,627	2,627	2,653	2,654
	UUP	Jim Clarke	4.2%	1,720	1,793	1,916	2,057
	Ulster Democratic	David Adams	4.3%	1,745	1,796	1,855
	UK Unionist	Grant Dillon	3.7%	1,496	1,579
	Independent Unionist	William Dixon	1.1%	437
	Labour Party NI	Boyd Black	0.6%	231
	Workers' Party	Patrick Lynn	0.4%	176
	NI Conservatives	Roger Lomas	0.2%	97
	Natural Law	James Anderson	0.2%	73
	Independent Labour	Niall Cusack	0.2%	62
Electorate: 61,209 Valid: 40,724 Spoilt: 542 (1.31%) Quota: 5,819 Turnout: 67.42%

1996 Forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.^[3]

	Candidate(s)	Votes	Percentage
UUP	Bob Stoker Jim Clarke Michael McGimpsey Drew Nelson Gordon Lucy	8,617	22.8
SDLP	Alasdair McDonnell Peter O'Reilly Carmel Hanna Douglas Arthur Hegney Rosaleen Hughes	7,956	21.0
DUP	Joan Parkes Thomas Scott John Norris	5,818	15.4
Alliance	Steve McBride Philip McGarry Margaret Marshall	4,689	12.4
Sinn Féin	Sean Hayes Sean Clinton Deborah Moore	2,455	6.5
PUP	Dawn Purvis Victor Murphy	2,321	6.1
UK Unionist	Patrick Roche Kate Garrett	1,750	4.6
Ulster Democratic	David Adams Pauline Gilmore	1,666	4.4
NI Women's Coalition	Kate Fearon Annie Campbell Barbara McCabe Claire McLaughlin Fidelma O'Gorman	947	2.5
Labour coalition	Peter Hadden Eleanor Rogers Niall Cusack Neil House Maeve Cross	333	0.9
Green (NI)	Mary Carberry Jane Carney Owen Clarke Andy Frew	314	0.8
NI Conservatives	Myrtle Boal Alan McKelvey	279	0.7
Workers' Party	Paddy Lynn Ian Foster	270	0.7
Democratic Partnership	Paul Smyth Alison Wilson	133	0.4
Ulster Independence	Gordon Smyth Samuel Stevenson	108	0.3
Democratic Left	Jean Craig Chris Skillen	96	0.3
Ulster Christian Democratic	Austin Scallan Martine McLaughlin John McLaughlin Brian McLaughlin Margaret Gibson	31	0.1
Natural Law	James Anderson Morris Ahmed	13	0.0
Independent Chambers	Bertha Burleigh Mark Strain	5	0.0

1982

1982 Assembly election: South Belfast – 5 Seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	UUP	Martin Smyth	35.6%	13,347
	Alliance	David Cook	17.4%	6,514
	DUP	Stuart McCrea	10.9%	4,091	2,940	3,484	3,629
	UUP	Edgar Graham	7.7%	2,875	5,210	5,370	5,408	5,734	6,253
	UUP	Jim Kirkpatrick	3.0%	1,126	4,427	4,617	4,673	4,960	5,416
	SDLP	Ben Caraher	8.9%	3,342	3,344	3,740	3,740	3,741	4,713
	Alliance	Basil Glass	6.7%	2,493	2,644	3,260	3,274	3,293
	DUP	Cedric Wilson	5.6%	2,111	2,408	2,496
	Workers' Party	Gerard Carr	2.5%	933	939
	UUUP	Philip Moles	0.7%	248	332
	Communist Party	Barry Bruton	0.7%	168	170
	UUUP	James Scott	0.2%	82	239
	Liberal	Michael Warden	0.2%	65	89
	Independent	William Clulow	0.2%	65	86
	Independent	Stuart Hall Raleigh	0.1%	19	20
Electorate: 66,683 Valid: 37,469 Spoilt: 1,243 (3.21%) Quota: 4,424 Turnout: 58.05%

1975 Constitutional Convention

1975 Constitutional Convention: Belfast South - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11
	UUP	Martin Smyth	31.5%	15,061
	Alliance	Basil Glass	16.7%	7,961
	UUP	Jeremy Burchill	8.8%	4,230	7,751
	Alliance	Jim Hendron	5.2%	2,499	2,536	3,473	3,483	4,282	4,288	4,465	7,329
	Vanguard	David Trimble	5.1%	2,429	4,398	4,403	4,638	4,742	5,147	5,217	5,226	7,241
	DUP	Thomas Burns	5.3%	2,529	3,406	3,413	3,733	3,837	4,965	5,042	5,054	6,117	6,134	6,514
	Unionist Party NI	Reginald Magee	7.4%	3,552	3,819	3,862	3,909	4,076	4,132	5,718	5,779	5,948	6,424	6,448
	Vanguard	Raymond Jordan	3.9%	1,874	2,733	2,736	2,907	2,996	3,282	3,351	3,365
	SDLP	Ben Caraher	6.4%	3,065	3,069	3,126	3,127	3,269	3,271	3,281
	Unionist Party NI	John Houston	3.5%	1,697	1,783	1,800	1,827	2,020	2,051
	DUP	Robert McNeice	2.8%	1,316	1,837	1,839	1,903	1,928
	NI Labour	Erskine Holmes	3.3%	1,599	1,682	1,716	1,726
Electorate: 73,324 Valid: 47,812 Spoilt: 789 (1.62%) Quota: 6,831 Turnout: 66.28%

1973

1973 Assembly election: South Belfast – 6 Seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11	Count 12	Count 13	Count 14	Count 15	Count 16
	UUP	Basil McIvor	13.1%	6,930	6,940	6,958	6,959	6,981	7,003	7,120	7,152	7,191	7,385	8,185
	Alliance	Basil Glass	9.8%	5,148	5,244	5,367	5,404	5,848	5,852	5,876	7,305	7,309	7,393	7,441	9,025
	DUP	Thomas Burns	8.8%	4,640	4.640	4.641	4,641	4,644	4,779	4,872	4,874	6,343	6,893	6,986	7,103	7,133	10,436
	UUP	Nelson Elder	9.1%	4,807	4,810	4,815	4,815	4,821	4,840	4,909	4,917	4,965	6,110	6,610	6,835	6,978	7,287	8,044
	UUP	Herbert Kirk	10.3%	5,426	5,429	5,435	5,439	5,447	5,465	5,610	5,620	5,653	6,009	6,605	6,838	7,038	7,297	7,663
	UUP	Reginald Magee	6.9%	3,656	3,661	3,666	3,666	3,676	3,696	3,835	3,854	3,895	4,042	5,051	5,235	5,417	5,603	6,039	6,690
	SDLP	Ben Caraher	6.3%	3,320	3,326	3,414	3,779	3,799	3,800	3,802	3,980	3,982	3,999	4,000	4,575	5,018	5,029	5,037	5,038
	Vanguard	Martin Gowdy	4.6%	2,434	2,434	2,436	2,438	2,442	3,208	3,273	3,277	3,865	4,082	4,170	4,272	4,283
	NI Labour	Erskine Holmes	5.1%	2,684	2,699	2,833	2,950	2,996	3,003	3,038	3,155	3,168	3,241	3,292
	UUP	Robert Stewart	5.4%	2,850	2,853	2,859	2,861	2,868	2,886	3,010	3,017	3,074	3,218
	Independent Unionist	Grace Bannister	4.8%	2,538	2,540	2,553	2,554	2,568	2,584	2,900	2,918	2,992
	DUP	Thomas Wright	4.0%	2,134	2,134	2,135	2,138	2,139	2,295	2,369	2,373
	Alliance	William McCollum	2.5%	1,294	1,446	1,525	1,545	1,834	1,835	1,848
	Independent Unionist	Thomas Rea	2.3%	1,201	1,204	1,210	1,211	1,214	1,230
	Vanguard	Stanley Morgan	2.3%	1,205	1,205	1,205	1,205	1,206
	Alliance	Jean Graham	1.4%	743	810	869	885
	Republican Clubs	Sean Flynn	1.5%	783	784	794
	Liberal	Sheelagh Murnaghan	1.0%	548	560
	Alliance	John Somerville	0.7%	380
Electorate: 75,990 Valid: 52,721 Spoilt: 928 (1.73%) Quota: 7,532 Turnout: 70.60%

References

↑ South Belfast, UTV
↑ http://www.eoni.org.uk/belfast_south_result_sheet.pdf
↑ 1996 Candidates – South Belfast, Northern Ireland Elections

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