Created 1929 Election method First past the post | Abolished 1973 Founded 1929 | |
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Larne was a single-member county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.
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Boundaries and boundary changes
This was a division of County Antrim. Before 1929, it was part of the seven-member Antrim constituency. The constituency sent one MP to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland from 1929 until the Parliament was temporarily suspended in 1972, and then formally abolished in 1973.
In terms of the then local government areas the constituency in 1929 comprised parts of the rural districts of Antrim, Ballymena and Larne. The division also included the whole of the urban districts of Larne and Whitehead.
Elections
The parliamentary representatives of the division were elected using the first past the post system.
References
Larne (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA