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This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Northern Irish constituencies for the 58th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2019–2024). There are 18 such constituencies, nine of which are represented by Nationalists and eight by Unionists.
Northern Ireland is divided into 18 parliamentary constituencies: 4 borough constituencies in Belfast and 14 county constituencies elsewhere. Section 33 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 provides that the constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly are the same as the constituencies that are used for the United Kingdom Parliament. [1]
The Northern Ireland (Elections) Act 1998 formally established the Assembly in law under the name New Northern Ireland Assembly, in accordance with the Good Friday (or Belfast) Agreement. The first election of members of the New Northern Ireland Assembly was on 25 June 1998 and it first met on 1 July 1998.
After a 24-month hiatus, devolved government in Northern Ireland was finally restored. Throw in a snap Westminster and Irish election in for good measure, there have been plenty of stand out ...
In 1921, the Anglo-Irish Treaty secured independence for the Irish Free State, comprising that part of Ireland not in Northern Ireland, which was to take effect on 6 November 1922. From the 1922 Westminster election, held on 15 November, only the six counties of Northern Ireland were represented in Parliament.
Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland by term (12 C) Lists of members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland (13 P) Women members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland (10 P)
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Northern Irish constituencies for the Fifty-Fifth Parliament of the United Kingdom (2010 to 2015). It includes both MPs elected at the 2010 general election, held on 6 May 2010, and those subsequently elected in by-elections.
The Parliament of Northern Ireland was the home rule legislature of Northern Ireland, created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, which sat from 7 June 1921 [1] to 30 March 1972, when it was suspended because of its inability to restore order during the Troubles, resulting in the introduction of direct rule.