Belfast East (Assembly constituency)

Belfast East
Northern Ireland Assembly Parliamentary constituency
East Belfast shown within Northern Ireland
Current constituency
Created	1973
Seats	6 (1998–2016) 5 (2017–)
MLAs	Andy Allen (UUP)   David Brooks (DUP)   Joanne Bunting (DUP)   Naomi Long (APNI)   Peter McReynolds (APNI)
City council	Belfast City Council
Boundaries

Belfast East (Irish: Béal Feirste Thoir, Ulster Scots: Bilfawst East) is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973. It usually shares boundaries with the Belfast East UK Parliament constituency, however the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1983 to 1986 and 2010 to 2011 as the Assembly boundaries had not caught up with Parliamentary boundary changes and from 1996 to 1997 when members of the Northern Ireland Forum had been elected from the newly drawn Parliamentary constituencies but the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected in 1992 under the 1983–95 constituency boundaries, was still in session.

Members were then elected from the constituency to the 1975 Constitutional Convention, the 1982 Assembly, the 1996 Forum and then to the current Assembly from 1998.

For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see Belfast East (UK Parliament constituency).