1914 Belfast Corporation election

1914 Belfast Corporation election
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16 seats to Belfast Corporation
9 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader R. J. McMordie
Party Irish Unionist United Irish League
Seats won 14 2
Map showing the election results by ward.
Council control before election

Irish Unionist

 Council control after election

Irish Unionist

An election to Belfast Corporation took place in 1914 as part of that year's Irish local elections. This would be the last election before the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1919, which would replace the traditional FPTP based ward system with an STV system based on proportional representation. The election saw Unionists continuing their dominance of the council, winning a massive majority of the council's seats.[1]

Sixteen seats were up for election, with a total of forty-eight candidates nominated. Publican John Boston was nominated for every seat, in order to ensure that they would have a contest. The Falls and St Anne's wards had the most candidates, with seven each. Arthur Trew stood in both the Falls and Shankill wards.[2]

After the election Crawford McCullagh was elected by the new council as Lord Mayor of Belfast.

  1. ^ Laffan, Michael (1999). The Resurrection of Ireland: The Sinn Féin Party, 1916–1923. Cambridge University Press. p. 327. ISBN 9781139426299.
  2. ^ "Municipal elections in the provinces", Irish Times, 10 January 1914