saw Sinn Féin increase their vote share and reduce the DUP majority. Sinn Féin targeted the seat in the 2015 general election, campaigning on returning the constituency's first Irish nationalist MP and the growing Catholic population surpassing Protestants. However, the DUP and the UUP agreed an electoral pact in which the UUP would withdraw their candidate to help re-elect an unionist. This allowed for Dodds to hold the seat comfortably with an increased majority, although a 4.3% swing to Sinn Féin in the 2017 general election still confirmed the seat's marginal status. Prior to the 2019 general election, the SDLP and UUP withdrew their candidates. In a highly divisive contest marred by threats from loyalist paramilitaries, John Finucane of Sinn Féin won with a majority of 1,943 votes. This meant that the 2019 election was the first time that Sinn Féin won multiple seats in Belfast and the first time Belfast North had elected a nationalist instead of a unionist. Dodds was replaced as Commons leader by Jeffrey Donaldson. Members of Parliament The Member of Parliament since the 2019 general election has been John Finucane of Sinn Féin. He defeated Nigel Dodds of the Democratic Unionist Party, who had sat for the seat since 2001. Elections Elections in the 2010s This seat saw the only increase in vote share for Sinn Féin at the 2019 general election. Elections in the 2000s Elections in the 1990s 1997 changes are compared to the 1992 notional results shown below. Elections in the 1980s Elections in the 1970s Elections in the 1960s Elections in the 1950s Elections in the 1940s Elections in the 1930s Elections in the 1920s Elections in the 1910s Elections in the 1900s Elections in the 1890s Elections in the 1880s See also List of parliamentary constituencies in Northern Ireland References External links Politics Resources (Election results from 1922 onwards) Electoral Calculus (Election results from 1955 onwards) 2017 Election House of Commons Library 2017 Election report A Vision Of Britain Through Time (Constituency elector numbers) BBC News, Election 2005 BBC News, Vote 2001 Guardian Unlimited Politics Election results from 1951 to the present , at psr.keele.ac.uk F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918 – 1949 F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950 – 1970 The Constitutional Year Book For 1912, Conservative Central Office Westminster Parliamentary constituencies in Belfast Westminster Parliamentary constituencies in Northern Ireland Constituencies of the