Created 1929 Election method First past the post | Abolished 1972 Founded 1929 | |
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South Down was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.
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South Down was a county constituency comprising part of southern County Down. It was created when the House of Commons (Method of Voting and Redistribution of Seats) Act (Northern Ireland) 1929 introduced first-past-the-post elections throughout Northern Ireland. South Armagh was created by the division of Down into eight new constituencies. The constituency survived unchanged, returning one Member of Parliament until the Parliament of Northern Ireland was temporarily suspended in 1972, and then formally abolished in 1973.
The seat was centred on the towns of Newry and Warrenpoint, and also included certain district electoral divisions of the rural districts of Kilkeel and Newry No. 1.
Politics
The seat had a substantial nationalist majority, with nationalist candidates winning every election, excepting 1938, when no nationalist stood.