A small part of the constituency was proposed for transfer to Belfast South.

In 1885 he was elected an independent MP for Belfast South until his death.

Belfast South, was a former potential Dáil Éireann parliamentary constituency.

Belfast South: 1982 and 1986.

Lacking a party machine, he also lost the Westminster election in Belfast South held eight days later.

Belfast South was partitioned into the following divisions.

Belfast South is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

There has been particularly rapid demographic change in Belfast South over the past 20 years, change which seems to be continuing.

Since the 2011 census, Belfast South consists of a Catholic majority population.

Belfast South traditionally had a unionist majority, but the nationalist vote has now surpassed this in more recent elections.