Belfast West (Assembly constituency)

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox constituency Belfast West is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

It was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election in 1973, which elected the then Northern Ireland Assembly. It usually shares boundaries with the Belfast West UK Parliament constituency. However, the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1973 to 1974, 1983 to 1986 and 2010 to 2011 (because 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.

For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see Belfast West (UK Parliament constituency).

Members

Election MLA
(party) 		MLA
(party) 		MLA
(party) 		MLA
(party) 		MLA
(party) 		MLA
(party)
1973 style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Paddy Devlin
(SDLP) 		style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=5| Desmond Gillespie
(SDLP) 		style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Hugh Smyth
(Independent Unionist) 		style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3| Bob Cooper
(Alliance Party) 		style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3| John Laird
(UUP) 		style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Jean Coulter
(Vanguard/UUP)
1975 Joe Hendron
(SDLP) 		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
1982 4 seats
1982–1996 		rowspan="15" style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Gerry Adams
(Sinn Féin) 		Will Glendinning
(Alliance) 		Thomas Passmore
(UUP) 		4 seats
1982–1996
1996 5 seats
1996–1998 		style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=14| Alex Maskey
(Sinn Féin) 		rowspan="14" style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Dodie McGuinness
(Sinn Féin) 		rowspan="14" style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Annie Armstrong
(Sinn Féin)
1998 style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=10| Alex Attwood
(SDLP) 		Bairbre de Brún
(Sinn Féin) 		Sue Ramsey
(Sinn Féin)
2003 style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Diane Dodds
(DUP) 		Fra McCann
(Sinn Féin) 		Michael Ferguson
(Sinn Féin)
November 2004
co-option 		Sue Ramsey
(Sinn Féin)
2007 style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=5| Paul Maskey
(Sinn Féin) 		Jennifer McCann
(Sinn Féin)
December 2010
co-option 		Pat Sheehan
(Sinn Féin)
2011
July 2012
co-option 		Rosie McCorley
(Sinn Féin)
November 2014
co-option 		Alex Maskey
(Sinn Féin)
2016 rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Gerry Carroll
(PBP)
December 2016
co-option 		Órlaithí Flynn
(Sinn Féin)
2017 5 seats
2017–present
October 2021
co-option 		Aisling Reilly
(Sinn Féin)
2022 Danny Baker
(Sinn Féin)

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.

Elections

Northern Ireland Assembly

2022

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2017

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2016

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2011

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2007

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Note: All Republican Sinn Féin candidates appeared as Independent on the ballot paper.

2003

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Note: David Kerr sought election as an Ulster Third Way candidate, and appeared as such on the ballot paper.

1998

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Note: Mary Cahillane sought election as a Pro-Agreement Socialist candidate, and appeared as such on the ballot paper.

1996 forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.[1]

Party Candidate(s) Votes Percentage
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Gerry Adams
Dodie McGuinness
Alex Maskey
Annie Armstrong
Marie Moore 		22,355 53.4
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Joe Hendron
Alex Attwood
Margaret Walsh
Patricia Lewsley
Mary Muldoon 		11,087 26.5
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Hugh Smyth
Mina Wardle 		1,982 4.7
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Eric Smyth
Margaret Ferris 		1,769 4.2
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Fred Parkinson
John McDonald 		1,489 3.6
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John Lowry
Jim Pollock 		984 2.4
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Frank McCoubrey
Delwyn Williams 		848 2.0
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Dan McGuinness
Patricia Mallon
Glyn Roberts 		340 0.8
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Mary Cahillane
Isabel Cowan
Barbara Lynn
Brian McDermott
Terence McDonagh 		319 0.8
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Vera McKee
Mary Catney
Ann Hall
Julie Cullen 		252 0.6
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Jude Stephens
Philip Kearney
David Taylor 		156 0.4
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Charles Balmer
David Munster 		60 0.1
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Florence Baxter
William Clements 		36 0.1
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Kenneth McClinton
Clifford Peoples 		43 0.1
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Mary McMahon
Freddie Rea 		37 0.1
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Michael Kennedy
Vivien Martin 		30 0.1
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Barry Bruton
Daniella Egerton 		28 0.1
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Bernard McGrath
Susan McGrath 		26 0.1
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Ruth Patty
Richard Stewart 		12 0.0

1982

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1975 Constitutional Convention

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Note: John Laird, Jean Coulter and Edith Goligher were all UUUC endorsed candidates.

1973

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Note: John Laird, Hugh Smyth, Jean Coulter and William Spence used the label "West Belfast Loyalist Coalition" simultaneously whilst standing under different party affiliations.

References

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Sources

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