Bangor (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

Bangor
Former County constituency for the Parliament of Northern Ireland
Former constituency
Created	1969
Abolished	1972
Election method	First past the post

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

Boundaries and Boundary Changes

Bangor was created by the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 as a division of County Down. It was located to the east of Belfast. Before 1969, the area formed part of the Northern Ireland Parliament constituency of North Down.

The constituency sent one MP to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland at the 1969 general election. The Parliament was prorogued on 30 March 1972, under the terms of the Northern Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act 1972. It was formally abolished in 1973 when the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 received Royal Assent on 18 July 1973.

The Parliamentary representative of the division was elected using the first-past-the-post system.

Member of Parliament

Year	Member	Party
1969	Robert Dodd McConnell		Ind. Unionist
1972			Alliance

Election results

General Election 24 February 1969: Bangor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ind. Unionist	Robert Dodd McConnell	7,714	59.8
	Ulster Unionist	Robert Campbell	5,190	40.2
Majority			2,524	19.6
Turnout			12,904	61.8
	Ind. Unionist win (new seat)

• Parliament prorogued 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)
• Northern Ireland House of Commons, 1921 - 1972

External links

• For more information about the Northern Ireland House of Commons, see http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/stormont.html Archived 11 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine