It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1922, on the electoral system of first past the post.
Under the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918, it was increased to nine divisions.
[1] Shankill was created from Belfast North and was defined as:[2] At the 1918 general election, Sinn Féin issued an election manifesto in which it called for the "establishment of a constituent assembly comprising persons chosen by Irish constituencies".
After the election, Sinn Féin invited all those elected for Irish constituencies to sit as members of Dáil Éireann, termed Teachta Dála (or TD, known in English as a Deputy).
The 1922 United Kingdom general election took place on 15 November, with an overall reduction in seats from Northern Ireland.