Belfast Woodvale (UK Parliament constituency)
| Belfast Woodvale | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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| 1918–1922 | |
| Number of members | one |
| Replaced by | Belfast West |
| Created from | Belfast West |
Coordinates: 54°36′36″N 5°57′47″W / 54.610°N 5.963°W
Woodvale, a division of Belfast, was a UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1922, using the first past the post electoral system.
This constituency comprised the northern third of west Belfast, and contained the then Court and Woodvale wards of Belfast Corporation.
Prior to the 1918 general election and after the dissolution of Parliament in 1922 the area was part of the Belfast West constituency.
The constituency was a strongly unionist area.
Sinn Féin contested the general election of 1918 on the platform that instead of taking up any seats they won in the United Kingdom Parliament, they would establish a revolutionary assembly in Dublin. In republican theory every MP elected in Ireland was a potential Deputy to this assembly. In practice only the Sinn Féin members accepted the offer.
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