Carrick was a single-member

county constituency In the United Kingdom (UK), each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one member to the House of Commons. Within the United Kingdom there are five bodies with members elected by electoral districts called " constituen ...

of the

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Boundaries and Boundary Changes

This was a division of

County Antrim County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim, County Antrim, Antrim, ) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, located within the historic Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the c ...

. Before 1929 it was part of the seven-member Antrim constituency. The constituency elected one MP to the

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from 1929 until the Parliament was temporarily suspended in 1972, and then formally abolished in 1973. In terms of the then local government areas the constituency in 1929 comprised parts of the

rural districts A rural district was a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the adm ...

of Antrim,

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and

Larne Larne (, , the name of a Gaelic Ireland, Gaelic territory)Larne/Latharna
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. The division also included the whole of the urban districts of

Ballyclare Ballyclare () is a small town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 10,850 according to the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, and is located within the Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council area. It is part of, and ...

and

Carrickfergus Carrickfergus ( , meaning " Fergus' rock") is a large town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It sits on the north shore of Belfast Lough, from Belfast. The town had a population of 28,141 at the 2021 census. It is County Antrim's oldest t ...

. After boundary changes in 1969, the constituency included parts of the

of Antrim and

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, the borough of

, the

urban district An urban district is a division generally managed by a local government. It may also refer to a city district, district, urban area or quarter Specific urban districts in some countries include: * Urban districts of Denmark * Districts of Germa ...

and part of the urban district of Carrickfergus.

Members of Parliament

Elections

''The parliamentary representatives of the division were elected using the

first past the post First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or First-preference votes, first-preference, and the cand ...

system.'' * ''Resignation of Gordon'' * ''Death of Campbell'' * ''Resignation of Curran on appointment as a Justice of the High Court'' * ''Boundary changes'' * ''Parliament

prorogued A legislative session is the period of time in which a legislature, in both parliamentary and presidential systems, is convened for purpose of lawmaking, usually being one of two or more smaller divisions of the entire time between two elections. ...

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)

External source

* ''For the exact definition of Northern Ireland constituency boundaries see'' http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/boundaries.html {{County Antrim constituencies Northern Ireland Parliament constituencies established in 1929 Historic constituencies in County Antrim Carrickfergus Northern Ireland Parliament constituencies disestablished in 1973