Belfast South and Mid Down

Belfast South and Mid Down
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Belfast South and Mid Down in Northern Ireland
Districts of Northern Ireland
BoroughBelfast
Current constituency
Created2024
Member of ParliamentClaire Hanna (SDLP)
Seats1
Created from

Belfast South and Mid Down is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. It was created in 2024 as a successor to Belfast South. It contains central Belfast, Finaghy, Drumbo, and Carryduff.

The MP since 2024 is Claire Hanna of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).[1] Hanna had been MP for Belfast South since the 2019 general election.[2]

Boundaries

Following the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, the seat of Belfast South was subject to boundary changes and renamed Belfast South and Mid Down. The redrawn constituency contained 90.8% of the population of the former Belfast South.[3] It was first contested at the 2024 general election.[4][5]

The constituency comprises:[6]

In Belfast, the wards of Belvoir, Blackstaff, Central, Finaghy, Malone, Musgrave, Ormeau, Ravenhill, Rosetta, Stranmillis, Upper Malone, and Windsor;

in Lisburn and Castlereagh, the wards of Beechill, Cairnshill, Carryduff East, Carryduff West, Drumbo, Galwally, Knockbracken, Moneyreagh, and Newtownbreda; and

in Newry, Mourne and Down, the ward of Saintfield.

Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
2024 Claire Hanna SDLP

Election results

Elections in the 2020s

2024 general election: Belfast South and Mid Down[7][8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SDLP Claire Hanna 21,345 49.1 4.2
Alliance Kate Nicholl 8,839 20.3 4.9
DUP Tracy Kelly 6,859 15.8 9.6
UUP Michael Henderson 2,653 6.1 2.5
TUV Dan Boucher 2,218 5.1 New
Green (NI) Áine Groogan 1,577 3.6 3.4
Majority 12,506 28.8 0.9
Turnout 43,491 58.2 8.0
Registered electors 74,749
SDLP win (new seat)

Elections in the 2010s

2019 notional result[10]
Party excl. candidate Vote %
Social Democratic and Labour Party 25,409 53.3
Democratic Unionist Party 12,087 25.4
Alliance 7,348 15.4
Ulster Unionist Party 1,703 3.6
Aontú 568 1.2
Sinn Féin 247 0.5
Conservatives 167 0.4
Greens 73 0.2
People Before Profit 67 0.1
Majority 13,322 27.9
Turnout 47,669 66.2
Electorate 71,978

References

  1. ^ "MPs representing Belfast South and Mid Down". UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 20 May 2025. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  2. ^ "Claire Hanna". UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 9 July 2025. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  3. ^ "Belfast South and Mid Down – Overlaps". UK Parliament.
  4. ^ Preston, Allan (1 April 2022). "Sinn Fein defend proposals to redraw Belfast's electoral boundaries". Belfast Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
  5. ^ "Final Recommendations Report of the 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituencies - PDF". Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland. 28 June 2023. Archived from the original on 30 June 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  6. ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023 (Statutory Instrument 2023 no. 1230)" (PDF). The Stationery Office. 15 November 2023. pp. 183–4. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 July 2024. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  7. ^ "Belfast South and Mid Down – Election result". UK Parliament.
  8. ^ "Belfast South and Mid Down: Seat Details". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 14 June 2025. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  9. ^ "Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll". Electoral Office for Northern Ireland. 7 June 2024. Archived from the original on 7 June 2024. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  10. ^ "Notional results for a UK general election on 12 December 2019". Rallings & Thrasher, Professor David Denver (Scotland), Nicholas Whyte (NI) for Sky News, PA, BBC News and ITV News. UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 25 March 2025. Retrieved 11 March 2025.
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