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=== Northern Ireland Assembly and Westminster elections ===
{{Further|Northern Ireland Assembly|Parliament of the United Kingdom}}
{{See also|Belfast (Northern Ireland Parliament constituencies)|Belfast (UK Parliament constituency)}}

As Northern Ireland's capital city, Belfast is host to the [[Northern Ireland Assembly]] at [[Parliament Buildings (Northern Ireland)|Stormont]], the site of the [[Devolution#Northern Ireland|devolved]] legislature for Northern Ireland. Belfast is divided into four [[Northern Ireland Assembly]] and [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|UK parliamentary]] constituencies: [[Belfast North (UK Parliament constituency)|Belfast North]], [[Belfast West (UK Parliament constituency)|Belfast West]], [[Belfast South and Mid Down (UK Parliament constituency)|Belfast South and Mid Down]] and [[Belfast East (UK Parliament constituency)|Belfast East]]. All four extend beyond the city boundaries to include parts of [[Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council|Antrim and Newtownabbey]] and [[Lisburn and Castlereagh]] districts. In [[Elections in the United Kingdom|United Kingdom elections]], each constituency returns one [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]], on a "[[First-past-the-post voting|first past the post]]" basis to Westminster. In NI Assembly elections each returns, on the basis of [[proportional representation]], five [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (Northern Ireland)|MLAs]] to [[Parliament Buildings (Northern Ireland)|Stormont]].

In the [[2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election|Northern Ireland Assembly Elections in 2022]], Belfast elected 7 [[Sinn Féin]], 5 [[Democratic Unionist Party|DUP]], 5 [[Alliance Party of Northern Ireland|Alliance Party]], 1 [[Social Democratic and Labour Party|SDLP]], 1 [[Ulster Unionist Party|UUP]] and 1 [[People Before Profit Alliance|PBPA]] MLAs.<ref>{{cite news |date=7 May 2022 |title=Northern Ireland election |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2022/northern-ireland/results |access-date=24 May 2022 |work=BBC News }}</ref> In the [[2017 United Kingdom general election|2017 UK general election]], the DUP won all but the Sinn Féin stronghold of Belfast West. In the [[2019 UK General Election|2019]] and [[2024 United Kingdom general election|2024 UK general elections]], they retained only Belfast East, losing Belfast North to Sinn Féin and Belfast South to the SDLP.