Elections at Queen’s University

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Elections at Queen’s University

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Location

Belfast

Year

1962

Date

Production 18/06/1962

Length

05min 03sec

Audio

mute, sound

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcast Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

Ernest Strathdee interviewed a group of students at Queen’s University Belfast about the upcoming result of the election for the constituency of Queen’s University. It will seem a strange anomaly to modern followers of politics that such a constituency existed at all, let alone that only graduates could vote. Between 1918 and 1950 it elected one MP at each general election to take up a place in the House of Commons at Westminster, until university seats were abolished. However, in the Northern Ireland parliament, the University returned not one but four MPs from 1921 until 1969, when the practice was finally discontinued.

The students interviewed mainly complain that undergraduates should also be allowed to vote as they are still at the university. Following a silent section on the vote counting, Strathdee interviewed Sheelagh Murnaghan, who topped the proportional representation poll for the Ulster Liberals.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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