Larkfield (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

54°35′10″N 5°57′22″W / 54.586°N 5.956°W / 54.586; -5.956

Larkfield
Former County constituency for the Parliament of Northern Ireland
Larkfield shown within Northern Ireland
Former constituency
Created	1969
Abolished	1973
Election method	First past the post

Larkfield was a single-member county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

Boundaries and boundary changes

Before 1969, the area formed part of the Northern Ireland Parliament constituencies of Mid-Down and South Antrim.

Larkfield was created by the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 as a division of County Antrim. It was located to the south-west of Belfast, straddling the Upper Malone Road, Upper Lisburn Road and M1 motorway, and comprised "part of the rural district of Lisburn which consists of the district electoral divisions of Andersonstown, Ardmore, Ballygammon, Dunmurry, Finaghy, Ladybrook, and Upper Malone". The boundaries of those divisions are set out in the Lisburn Rural District (Electoral Areas) Order (NI) 1963.

The constituency sent one MP to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland at the 1969 Northern Ireland general election. The Parliament was prorogued on 30 March 1972, under the terms of the Northern Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act 1972. It was formally abolished in 1973 when the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 received Royal Assent on 18 July 1973.

The parliamentary representative of the division was elected using the first-past-the-post system.

Member of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1969	Basil McIvor	Ulster Unionist
1973		constituency abolished

Election results

Politics of Northern Ireland
(1921–72)


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General Election 24 February 1969: Larkfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Ulster Unionist	Basil McIvor	8,501	59.90
	National Democratic	Tom Sherry	2,386	16.81
	NI Labour	Tom Magee	1,714	12.08
	Republican Labour	Gerry O'Hare	1,591	11.21
Majority			6,115	43.09
Turnout			20,774	68.32
	Ulster Unionist win (new seat)

Parliament prorogued 30 March 1972 and abolished 18 July 1973

References

Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results 1921-1972, compiled and edited by Sydney Elliott (Political Reference Publications 1973)
Northern Ireland House of Commons, 1921 - 1972

External links

For more information about the Northern Ireland House of Commons, see http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/stormont.html Archived 2006-02-11 at the Wayback Machine

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Queen's University	Queen's University (to 1969)

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Queen's University of Belfast (1918–50)

Current

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Dáil Éireann
Revolutionary era 1919–1922

First Dáil
1919–21

Seats taken	(none)
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Second Dáil
1921–22

Seats taken	(none)
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1921–72

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Queen's University of Belfast (1921–69)

1929–72

Bannside (1929–72)
Belfast Ballynafeigh (1929–72)
Belfast Bloomfield (1929–72)
Belfast Central (1929–72)
Belfast Clifton (1929–72)
Belfast Cromac (1929–72)
Belfast Dock (1929–72)
Belfast Duncairn (1929–72)
Belfast Falls (1929–72)
Belfast Oldpark (1929–72)
Belfast Pottinger (1929–72)
Belfast Shankill (1929–72)
Belfast St Anne's (1929–72)
Belfast Victoria (1929–72)
Belfast Willowfield (1929–72)
Belfast Windsor (1929–72)
Belfast Woodvale (1929–72)
Carrick (1929–72)
Larkfield (1969–72)
Larne (1929–72)
Mid Antrim (1929–72)
Newtownabbey (1969–72)
North Antrim (1929–72)
Queen's University of Belfast (1921–69)
South Antrim (1929–72)

Northern Ireland Assemblies

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Northern Ireland Forum 1996–98 Assembly (1998–present)	East Antrim North Antrim South Antrim Belfast East Belfast North Belfast South Belfast West Lagan Valley

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1979–2020

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