Belfast South is a constituency in the
Northern Ireland Assembly
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.
The seat was first used for a
Northern Ireland
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-only election for the
Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973. It usually shares boundaries with the
Belfast South UK Parliament constituency, however the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1983 to 1986 and 2010–2011 as the Assembly boundaries had not caught up with Parliamentary boundary changes and from 1996 to 1997 when members of the
Northern Ireland Forum
The Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue was a body set up in 1996 as part of a process of negotiations that eventually led to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
The forum was elected, with five members being elected for each List o ...
had been elected from the newly drawn Parliamentary constituencies but the 51st
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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, elected in 1992 under the 1983–95 constituency boundaries, was still in session.
Members were then elected from the constituency to the
1975 Constitutional Convention, the
1982 Assembly, the
1996 Forum and then to the current Assembly from 1998.
The constituency is formed from the
Belfast City Council
Belfast City Council () is the Local government in Northern Ireland, local authority with responsibility for part of Belfast, the largest city of Northern Ireland. The council serves an estimated population of (), the largest of any district c ...
districts of
Balmoral and
Botanic as well as one ward from
Titanic and a number of wards from
Lisnasharragh and
Lisburn and Castlereagh. For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see
Belfast South (UK Parliament constituency).
Members
Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns. For details of the order in which seats were won at each election, see the detailed results of that election.
Elections
Northern Ireland Assembly
2022
2017
2016
2011
Note: Charles Smyth sought election as a ''Procapitalism'' candidate, and appeared as such on the ballot paper.
2007
2003
1998
1996 forum
Successful candidates are shown in bold.
1996 Candidates – South Belfast
, Northern Ireland Elections
1984 by-election
1982
1975 Constitutional Convention
1973
References
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Constituencies of the Northern Ireland Assembly
Politics of Belfast
1973 establishments in Northern Ireland
Constituencies established in 1973