Belfast Ormeau

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title: "Belfast Ormeau" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["historic-westminster-constituencies-in-belfast", "dáil-constituencies-in-northern-ireland-(historic)", "constituencies-of-the-parliament-of-the-united-kingdom-established-in-1918", "constituencies-of-the-parliament-of-the-united-kingdom-disestablished-in-1922"] description: "Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1918–1922" topic_path: "geography/ireland" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast_Ormeau" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1918–1922 ::

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Field	Value
name	Belfast Ormeau
type	borough
parliament	uk
year	1918
abolished	1922
seats	1
previous	Belfast South
next	Belfast South
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|name = Belfast Ormeau |type = borough |parliament = uk |year = 1918 |abolished = 1922 |seats = 1 |previous = Belfast South |next = Belfast South |}}

Ormeau, a division of Belfast, was a UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1922, using the first past the post electoral system.

Boundaries and boundary changes

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918 from an area which had been in the Belfast South constituency. It comprised the eastern half of South Belfast, and contained the Ormeau ward of Belfast Corporation.

It was in use at the 1918 general election only, and under the Government of Ireland Act 1920 its area was again part of the Belfast South constituency, with effect at the 1922 general election.

Politics

The constituency was a strongly unionist area. This was evident in the very low performance by Sinn Féin in the 1918 election.

First Dáil

After the 1918 election, Sinn Féin invited all those elected for constituencies in Ireland to sit as TDs in Dáil Éireann rather than in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. All those elected for Irish constituencies were included in the roll of the Dáil but only those elected for Sinn Féin sat in the First Dáil. In May 1921, the Dáil passed a resolution declaring that elections to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland would be used as the election for the Second Dáil and that the First Dáil would be dissolved on the assembly of the new body. The area of Belfast Ormeau would then have been represented in the Dáil by the four-seat constituency of Belfast South, which also returned no representatives for Sinn Féin.

Members of Parliament

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Election	Member	Party
Irish Unionist}}"		1918
Ulster Unionist Party}}"		1921
	1922	constituency abolished
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Election

|title=General Election 14 December 1918: Belfast Ormeau}} |party = Irish Unionist Party |candidate = Thomas Moles |votes = 7,460 |percentage = 59.06 |change = |party = Independent Unionist |candidate = William John Stewart |votes = 4,833 |percentage = 38.26 |change = |party = Sinn Féin |candidate = James Joseph Dobbyn |votes = 338 |percentage = 2.68 |change = |votes = 2,627 |percentage = 20.80 |change = |votes = 16,343 |percentage = 77.29 |change = |winner = Irish Unionist Party

Notes

References

• (Information about boundaries of the constituency derived from the map of Northern Ireland Parliament constituencies (in force from 1921) and the wards included in the Belfast UK Parliament seats (in force 1922) for which see Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results 1921–1972, by Sydney Elliott (Political Reference Publications 1973) and Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885–1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1972) respective

References

1. Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918, Second Schedule, Part I
2. "The inaugural public meeting of Dáil Éireann".
3. (21 January 1919). "3. AN ROLLA.".
4. "Dáil Éireann debate - Tuesday, 10 May 1921 - PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT. - ELECTIONS.".

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