Belfast Falls (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

Belfast Falls was a borough constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland House of Commons from 1929-1973. It returned one member through a process of plurality (first past the post) voting.

Boundaries

The constituency was created from the Falls Ward which included Falls Road.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)/meta/color" |	1929	Richard Byrne	Nationalist Party
1933
1938
rowspan="1" style="background-color: Template:Republican Party (Ireland)/meta/color" |	1942	Eamon Donnelly	Republican Party
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Socialist Republican Party (Ireland)/meta/color" |	1945	Harry Diamond	Socialist Republican Party
1949
1953
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Republican Labour Party/meta/color" |	1958		Republican Labour Party
1962
1965
style="background-color: Template:Social Democratic and Labour Party/meta/color" |	1969	Paddy Devlin	Social Democratic and Labour Party
	1973	Constituency abolished

Election results

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General Election 22 May 1929: Belfast Falls

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	Richard Byrne	6,941	55.8	n/a
	NI Labour	W. McMullen	5,509	44.2	n/a
Majority			1,432	11.6

General Election 30 November 1933: Belfast Falls

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	Richard Byrne	Unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Nationalist hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 9 February 1938: Belfast Falls

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	Richard Byrne	5,334	53.3	n/a
	NI Labour	J. Glass	4,667	46.7	n/a
Majority			667	6.6
	Nationalist hold		Swing

• Death of Byrne

By-election 02 April 1942: Belfast Falls

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Donnelly	5,334	53.3	n/a
	NI Labour	J. Glass	4,667	46.7	n/a
Majority			667	6.6
	Fianna Fáil gain from Nationalist		Swing

General Election 14 June 1945: Belfast Falls

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Socialist Republican	Harry Diamond	5,016	42.9
	Federation of Labour	J.H. Collins	3,912	33.5
	Nationalist	J. McGlade	2,766	23.6
Majority			1,104	9.4
	Socialist Republican gain from Fianna Fáil		Swing

General Election 10 February 1949: Belfast Falls

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Socialist Republican	Harry Diamond	unopposed
Majority			n/a	n/a
	Socialist Republican hold		Swing

General Election 22 October 1953: Belfast Fall

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican Labour	Harry Diamond	7,510	73.1
	Independent Irish Labour	J.G. MacKearneyn	2,761	26.9
	Labour	J. Macgougan	1,361	11.8
Majority			4,749	46.2
	Republican Labour gain from Socialist Republican		Swing

General Election 20 March 1958: Belfast Falls

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican Labour	Harry Diamond	7,510	73.1
	Independent Irish Labour	J.G. MacKearneyn	2,761	26.9
Majority			4,749	46.2
	Republican Labour hold		Swing

General Election 31 May 1962: Belfast Falls

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican Labour	Harry Diamond	7,662	76.6
	Independent Labour	J.J. Brennan	2,343	23.4
Majority			5,319	53.2
	Republican Labour hold		Swing

General Election 25 November 1965: Belfast Falls

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican Labour	Harry Diamond	unopposed
Majority			n/a	n/a
	Republican Labour hold		Swing

General Election 24 February 1969: Belfast Falls

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SDLP	Paddy Devlin	6,275	53.1	n/a
	Republican Labour	Harry Diamond	5,549	46.9	n/a
Majority			726	6.2	n/a
	SDLP gain from Republican Labour		Swing