Bannside (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

"Bannside" redirects here. For Lord Bannside, see Ian Paisley.

Bannside
Former County constituency for the Parliament of Northern Ireland
Bannside shown within Northern Ireland
Former constituency
Created	1929
Abolished	1973
Election method	First past the post

Bannside was a single-member county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

Boundaries and Boundary Changes

This was a division of County Antrim. Before 1929 it was part of the seven-member Antrim constituency. The constituency sent one MP to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 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 of Antrim, Ballymena and Ballymoney.

After boundary changes in 1969 the constituency included parts of the same Rural Districts but Bannside was extended to take in the northern part of the 1929–1969 Antrim Borough constituency.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1929	George Charles Gillespie Young	Ulster Unionist Party
	1933
	1938
	1939	Malcolm William Patrick
	1945
	1946	Terence O'Neill
	1949
	1953
	1958
	1962
	1965
	1969
	1970	Ian Paisley	Protestant Unionist
	1971		Democratic Unionist
1973		constituency abolished

Elections

The parliamentary representatives of the division were elected using the first past the post system.

General Election 22 May 1929: Bannside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	George Charles Gillespie Young	5,931	54.31
	Ulster Liberal	George Henderson	4,174	38.22
	Independent Labour	William Ervine	816	7.47
Majority			1,757	16.09
Turnout			16,802	65.00
	UUP win (new seat)

General Election 30 November 1933: Bannside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	George Charles Gillespie Young	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 9 February 1938: Bannside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	George Charles Gillespie Young	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

• Death of Young

1939 Bannside by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Malcolm Patrick	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 14 June 1945: Bannside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Malcolm Patrick	5,029	62.80	N/A
	Ind. Unionist	A. J. Gillespie	2,979	37.20	New
Majority			2,050	25.60	N/A
Turnout			16,461	48.65	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

• Death of Patrick

1946 Bannside by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Terence O'Neill	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 10 February 1949: Bannside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Terence O'Neill	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 22 October 1953: Bannside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Terence O'Neill	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 20 March 1958: Bannside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Terence O'Neill	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 31 May 1962: Bannside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Terence O'Neill	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 25 November 1965: Bannside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Terence O'Neill	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

• Boundary changes

General Election 24 February 1969: Bannside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Terence O'Neill	7,745	47.27	N/A
	Protestant Unionist	Ian Paisley	6,331	38.64	New
	People's Democracy	Michael Farrell	2,310	14.10	New
Majority			1,414	8.63	N/A
Turnout			20,635	79.41	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

• Resignation of O'Neill

1970 Bannside by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protestant Unionist	Ian Paisley	7,981	43.68	+5.04
	UUP	Bolton Minford	6,778	37.09	−10.18
	NI Labour	Patrick McHugh	3,514	19.23	New
Majority			1,203	6.59	N/A
Turnout			22,954	79.61	+0.20
	Protestant Unionist gain from UUP		Swing

• Parliament prorogued 30 March 1972 and abolished 18 July 1973

Peerage title

When Ian Paisley was created a life peer in 2010, he took his title of Baron Bannside, of North Antrim in the County of Antrim from the constituency he had won in 1970.

References

• Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results 1921–1972, compiled and edited by Sydney Elliott (Political Reference Publications 1973)

External links

• For the exact definition of Northern Ireland constituency boundaries see http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/boundaries.html Archived 25 December 2005 at the Wayback Machine