Belfast West

Current MP

Paul Maskey

Sinn Féin

15 years as MP

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Election history

Most-signed petitions in Belfast West

Petitions ranked by how many people in this constituency signed them.

• Do not introduce Digital ID cards3,109 local · 2,984,191 total
• Call a General Election1,430 local · 3,084,713 total
• Repeal the Online Safety Act607 local · 550,136 total
• Stop financial and other support for asylum seekers544 local · 427,447 total
• Urgently fulfil humanitarian obligations to Gaza537 local · 198,966 total
• Introduce offshore detention/mass deportation for illegal migrants508 local · 720,772 total
• Call an immediate general election497 local · 1,059,229 total
• Introduce Statutory Menstrual Leave for People with Endometriosis & Adenomyosis307 local · 109,025 total
• Protect Northern Ireland Veterans from Prosecutions273 local · 209,956 total
• Shut the migrant hotels down now and deport illegal migrants housed there245 local · 257,442 total
• Mandatory collection and publication of certain child sexual offender data242 local · 260,974 total
• Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold223 local · 189,887 total
• Ban immediately the use of dogs in scientific and regulatory procedures219 local · 257,938 total
• Call a public inquiry into pro-Israel influence on politics & democracy206 local · 118,874 total
• Keep 5-Year ILR and Restrict Access to Benefits for New ILR Holders204 local · 244,450 total
• Keep the 5-Year ILR pathway for existing Skilled Worker visa holders197 local · 188,125 total
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test166 local · 150,060 total
• Keep the 5-Year ILR route for refugees. Do not extend it to 10 or 20 years158 local · 53,155 total
• Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender.157 local · 128,749 total
• Make all forms of 'geo-engineering' affecting the environment illegal156 local · 160,631 total

About Belfast West

Belfast West is one of 650 UK parliamentary constituencies that each elect a single Member of Parliament to the House of Commons under the first-past-the-post system. It sits in Northern Ireland and has a registered electorate of 75,346 voters. Boundary reviews run on a regular cycle via the Boundary Commission — the current map was redrawn for the 2024 general election.