Carrick (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

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

Carrick 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 elected 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, Belfast and Larne. The division also included the whole of the urban districts of Ballyclare and Carrickfergus.

After boundary changes in 1969, the constituency included parts of the rural districts of Antrim and Larne, the borough of Carrickfergus, the urban district of Ballyclare and part of the urban district of Carrickfergus.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1929	John Fawcett Gordon	Ulster Unionist Party
	1933
	1943	John Dermot Campbell
	1945	Lancelot Curran
	1945
	1949
	1950	Alexander Hunter
	1953
	1958
	1962
	1965	Austin Ardill
	1969	Anne Dickson
	1973	Constituency abolished

Elections

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

General Election 22 May 1929: Antrim Carrick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	John Fawcett Gordon	Unopposed	N/A
	UUP win (new seat)

General Election 30 November 1933: Antrim Carrick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	John Fawcett Gordon	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 9 February 1938: Antrim Carrick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	John Fawcett Gordon	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

• Resignation of Gordon

By-Election 19 April 1943: Antrim Carrick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	John Dermot Campbell	5,612	64.30	N/A
	NI Labour	William Calwell	3,116	35.70	New
Majority			2,496	28.60	N/A
Turnout			21,716	40.19	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

• Death of Campbell

By-Election 19 April 1945: Antrim Carrick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Lancelot Curran	6,905	71.58	N/A
	NI Labour	William Calwell	2,741	28.42	N/A
Majority			4,164	43.17	N/A
Turnout			21,069	45.78	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 14 June 1945: Antrim Carrick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Lancelot Curran	9,387	70.26	N/A
	NI Labour	William Calwell	3,973	29.74	N/A
Majority			5,414	40.52	N/A
Turnout			19,811	67.44	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 10 February 1949: Antrim Carrick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Lancelot Curran	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

• Resignation of Curran on appointment as a Justice of the High Court

By-Election 20 January 1950: Antrim Carrick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Alexander Hunter	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 22 October 1953: Antrim Carrick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Alexander Hunter	9,726	66.73	N/A
	NI Labour	Vivian Simpson	4,849	33.27	New
Majority			4,877	33.46	N/A
Turnout			26,063	55.92	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 20 March 1958: Antrim Carrick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Alexander Hunter	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 31 May 1962: Antrim Carrick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Alexander Hunter	10,397	55.71	N/A
	NI Labour	Bob Kidd	8,265	44.29	New
Majority			2,132	11.42	N/A
Turnout			37,059	50.36	N/A
	UUP hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 25 November 1965: Antrim Carrick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Austin Ardill	12,129	66.37
	NI Labour	Bob Kidd	6,146	33.63
Majority			5,983	32.74
Turnout			40,031	45.65
	UUP hold		Swing

• Boundary changes

General Election 24 February 1969: Antrim Carrick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UUP	Anne Dickson	9,529	64.49
	Ind. Unionist	James Craig	5,246	35.51	New
Majority			4,283	28.99
Turnout			22,905	64.51
	UUP hold		Swing

• 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)

External source

• For the exact definition of Northern Ireland constituency boundaries see http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/boundaries.html Archived 2005-12-25 at the Wayback Machine