East Belfast

Maps by Conal Kelly and Nicholas Whyte

This constituency was slightly cut down from the old East Belfast. The old East Belfast constituency was incorporated into the expanded East Belfast after 1995, with some tidying of the boundary with South Belfast. The Member of Parliament was Peter Robinson (DUP) throughout this period.

See spreadsheets for 1983, 1987 and 1992.

Election results, 1983-1992

9 April 1992

Peter Robinson MP (Democratic Unionist Party) 18,437 (51.5%)
John Alderdice (Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) 10,650 (29.8%)
David Greene (Conservative Party) 3,314 (9.3%)
Dorothy Dunlop (Independent Ulster Unionist) 2,256 (6.3%)
Joe O'Donnell (Sinn Féin) 679 (1.9%)
Joe Bell (Workers' Party) 327 (0.9%)
Guy Redden (Natural Law Party) 128 (0.4%)

Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) majority: 7,787; Electorate: 52,869; Turnout: 35,791 (67.7%)

11 June 1987

Peter Robinson MP (Democratic Unionist Party) 20,372 (61.9%)
John Alderdice (Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) 10,574 (32.1%)
Francis Cullen (Workers' Party) 1314 (4.0%)
Joe O'Donnell (Sinn Féin) 649 (2.0%)

Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) majority: 9,798; Electorate: 54,666; Turnout: 60.6%

23 January 1986

@Peter Robinson MP (Democratic Unionist Party) 27,607 (81.0%)
@Sir Oliver Napier (Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) 5,917 (17.4%)
Francis Cullen (Workers' Party) 578 (1.7%)

Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) majority 21,690; Electorate 55,319; Turnout 61.9%

9 June 1983

@Peter Robinson MP (Democratic Unionist Party) 17,631 (45.3%)
@Jeremy Burchill (Ulster Unionist Party) 9,642 (24.8%)
@Oliver Napier (Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) 9,373 (24.1%)
Denis Donaldson (Sinn Féin) 682 (1.8%)
Muriel Tang (Lab. and TU) 584 (1.5%)
Peter Prendiville (Social Democratic and Labour Party) 519 (1.3%)
Francis Cullen (Workers' Party) 421 (1.1%)
Herbert Boyd (Anti-Noise) 59 (0.2%)

Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) majority: 7,989; Electorate: 55,581; Turnout: 70.0%

See also:

Results from 1983 to 1995 for each seat: East Belfast | North Belfast | South Belfast | West Belfast | East Antrim | North Antrim | South Antrim | North Down | South Down | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | Foyle | Lagan Valley | East Londonderry | Mid Ulster | Newry and Armagh | Strangford | Upper Bann

Other sites based at ARK: ORB (Online Research Bank) | CAIN (Conflict Archive on the INternet) | Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey

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Nicholas Whyte, 21 October 2000; modified 16 February 2002.