Belfast Ormeau (UK Parliament constituency)

Belfast Ormeau
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1922
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Belfast South
Created from	Belfast South

Ormeau, 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 1918–1922, using the first past the post electoral system.

This constituency comprised the eastern half of South Belfast, and contained the then Ormeau ward of Belfast Corporation.

Prior to the 1918 general election and after the dissolution of Parliament in 1922 the area was part of the Belfast South constituency.

The constituency was a strongly unionist area. Sinn Féin demonstrated this by receiving only 338 votes, in the 1918 election.

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.

The revolutionary First Dáil assembled on 21 January 1919 and last met on 10 May 1921. The First Dáil, according to a resolution passed on 10 May 1921, was formally dissolved on the assembling of the Second Dáil. This took place on 16 August 1921.

In 1921 Sinn Féin decided to use the UK authorised elections for the Northern Ireland House of Commons and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland as a poll for the Irish Republic's Second Dáil. This constituency was, in republican theory, incorporated in a four-member Dáil constituency of Belfast South.

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