Belfast Central was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

It was created in 1929, when the House of Commons (Method of Voting and Redistribution of Seats) Act (Northern Ireland) 1929 introduced first-past-the-post elections throughout Northern Ireland.

[1] The constituency consisted of inner city areas of Belfast equivalent to the modern areas of Unity, Brown Square, John Street and Lancaster Street.

Residential redevelopment caused the electorate to fall sharply from 20,399 in 1929 to 6,384 in 1969.

It was initially held by Nationalist Party members, then later by a variety of labour movement activists and members of smaller nationalist parties.