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Queen's University of Belfast was a university constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom Parliament from 1918 until 1950.
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It returned one Member of Parliament (MP), elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.
Boundaries
The constituency was not a physical area but was rather elected by the graduates of the Queen's University of Belfast.
Politics and History of the constituency
University constituencies had existed in the United Kingdom Parliament and its predecessors since 1603 and in 1918 Queen's was enfranchised as such. When the Parliament of Northern Ireland was established, the same franchise was preserved - see Queen's University of Belfast (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency).
As with most other Northern Ireland seats in this period, the electorate was heavily inclined towards the Ulster Unionists, with no contests for the Westminster seat taking place at all in the interwar years.
Under the Representation of the People Act 1948, university constituencies at Westminster were abolished immediately prior to the United Kingdom general election, 1950.
Resignation of Sinclair