Created 1973 EP constituency Northern Ireland | City council Belfast City Council Founded 1973 | |
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Seats 6 (1998–2016)
5 (2017–) MLAs Paula Bradley (DUP)
William Humphrey (DUP)
Gerry Kelly (SF)
Nichola Mallon (SDLP)
Nelson McCausland (DUP)
Carál Ní Chuilín (SF) | ||
Belfast North (Irish: Béal Feirste Thuaidh, Ulster Scots: Bilfawst North) is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973. It usually shares boundaries with the Belfast North UK Parliament constituency, however the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1973 to 1974, 1983 to 1986 and 2010 to 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 to 1995 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 North (UK Parliament constituency).
Members
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.
1996 Forum
Successful candidates are shown in bold.
*John White was elected as one of the 20 top-up candidates for Northern Ireland.