Editing University constituency (section)

===Abolition===
The [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] government in 1930 attempted to abolish the university constituencies but was defeated in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]]. Although the members for the university constituencies were usually [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservatives]], in the later years independent candidates began to win many of the seats. The Labour government finally abolished the university constituencies via the [[Representation of the People Act 1948]], with effect from the dissolution of Parliament in 1950, along with all other examples of [[plural voting]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Registrar General|title=The Registrar General's Statistical Review of England and Wales For the Five Years 1946-1950|publisher=Her Majesty’s Stationery Office|year=1954|location=London|pages=175}}</ref>

The [[Queen's University of Belfast (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)|Queen's University, Belfast]] constituency survived in the [[Parliament of Northern Ireland]] until it was abolished in 1968 (with effect from the dissolution of Parliament in 1969) by the [[Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1968]] (c. 20 (N.I.)).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1968/20/introduction |title=Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 |website=legislation.gov.uk |access-date=19 January 2018 |date=28 November 1968}}</ref> This was one of several measures by the then Northern Ireland Prime Minister [[Terence O'Neill]] to reform elements of the election franchise and deal with many long-standing civil rights grievances.{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}