Belfast East (Assembly constituency)
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| Belfast East Northern Ireland Assembly Borough constituency |
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| Belfast East shown within Northern Ireland | |
| First Used: | 1973 |
| Assembly Members: | Wallace Browne Reg Empey Naomi Long Robin Newton Dawn Purvis Peter Robinson |
| Districts: | Belfast, Castlereagh |
Belfast 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 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).
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[edit] Members
The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2007 election are:
- Wallace Browne — Democratic Unionist Party
- Reg Empey — Ulster Unionist Party
- Naomi Long — Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- Robin Newton — Democratic Unionist Party
- Dawn Purvis — Progressive Unionist Party
- Peter Robinson — Democratic Unionist Party
The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2003 election were:
- Michael Copeland — Ulster Unionist Party
- Reg Empey — Ulster Unionist Party
- David Ervine — Progressive Unionist Party
- Naomi Long — Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- Robin Newton — Democratic Unionist Party
- Peter Robinson — Democratic Unionist Party
In the 1998 election the six MLAs elected were:
- Ian Adamson — Ulster Unionist Party
- John Alderdice — Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- Reg Empey — Ulster Unionist Party
- David Ervine — Progressive Unionist Party
- Peter Robinson — Democratic Unionist Party
- Sammy Wilson — Democratic Unionist Party
In the 1996 election to the Northern Ireland Peace Forum, 5 Forum members were elected from East Belfast. They were as follows:
- John Alderdice — Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- Reg Empey — Ulster Unionist Party
- Peter Robinson — Democratic Unionist Party
- Jim Rodgers — Ulster Unionist Party
- Sammy Wilson — Democratic Unionist Party
In 1982 elections were held for an Assembly for Northern Ireland to hold the Secretary of State to account, in the hope that this would be the first step towards restoring devolution. East Belfast elected 6 members as follows:
- Jeremy Burchill — Ulster Unionist Party
- Dorothy Dunlop — Ulster Unionist Party
- Addie Morrow — Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- Oliver Napier — Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- Peter Robinson — Democratic Unionist Party
- Denny Vitty — Democratic Unionist Party
In 1975 elections were held to a Constitutional Convention which sought (unsuccessfully) to generate a consensus on the future of the province. The six members elected from East Belfast were:
- David Bleakley — Northern Ireland Labour Party
- Joshua Cardwell — Unionist Party of Northern Ireland
- William Craig — Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
- Reg Empey — Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
- Oliver Napier — Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- Eileen Paisley — Democratic Unionist Party
In 1973 elections were held to the Assembly set up under the Sunningdale Agreement. The six members elected from East Belfast were:
- Norman Agnew — Ulster Unionist Party pro Sunningdale
- David Bleakley — Northern Ireland Labour Party
- Roy Bradford — Ulster Unionist Party pro Sunningdale
- Joshua Cardwell — Ulster Unionist Party pro Sunningdale
- Oliver Napier — Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- Eileen Paisley — Democratic Unionist Party
[edit] Elections
[edit] 2007
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | Result | Count | |
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| Democratic Unionist | Peter Robinson | 5,635 | Elected | 1 | |
| Alliance (NI) | Naomi Long | 5,583 | Elected | 1 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Sir Reg Empey | 4,139 | Elected | 3 | |
| Democratic Unionist | Wallace Browne | 3,185 | Elected | 11 | |
| Progressive Unionist | Dawn Purvis | 3,045 | Elected | 11 | |
| Democratic Unionist | Robin Newton | 2,335 | Elected | 11 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Michael Copeland | 1,557 | Not elected | 11 | |
| Sinn Féin | Niall Ó Donnghaile | 1,055 | Not elected | 8 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Jim Rodgers | 820 | Not elected | 9 | |
| Social Democratic and Labour | Mary Muldoon | 816 | Not elected | 10 | |
| Green (NI) | Stephen Agnew | 653 | Not elected | 7 | |
| Conservative | Glyn Chambers | 427 | Not elected | 5 | |
| Socialist Party | Thomas Black | 425 | Not elected | 5 | |
| Workers Party | Joseph Bell | 107 | Not elected | 5 | |
| Make Politicians History | Rainbow George | 47 | Not elected | 5 | |
[edit] 2003
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | Result | Count | |
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| Democratic Unionist | Peter Robinson | 9,254 | Elected | 1 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Sir Reg Empey | 6,459 | Elected | 1 | |
| Progressive Unionist | David Ervine | 2,990 | Elected | 3 | |
| Alliance (NI) | Naomi Long | 2,774 | Elected | 6 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Michael Copeland | 2,291 | Elected | 6 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Jim Rodgers | 1,502 | Not elected | ||
| Democratic Unionist | Robin Newton | 1,475 | Elected | 3 | |
| Democratic Unionist | Harry Toan | 1,403 | Not elected | ||
| Sinn Féin | Joseph O'Donnell | 1,055 | Not elected | ||
| Social Democratic and Labour | Leo Van Es | 967 | Not elected | ||
| Conservative | Terry Dick | 232 | Not elected | ||
| Socialist Party | Thomas Black | 176 | Not elected | ||
| Workers Party | Joseph Bell | 125 | Not elected | ||
| Independent | John McBlain | 72 | Not elected | ||
| Rainbow Dream Ticket | Rainbow George | 65 | Not elected | ||
[edit] 1998
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | Result | Count | |
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| Democratic Unionist | Peter Robinson | 11,219 | Elected | 1 | |
| Alliance (NI) | John Alderdice | 6,144 | Elected | 1 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Sir Reg Empey | 5,158 | Elected | 12 | |
| Progressive Unionist | David Ervine | 5,114 | Elected | 7 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Ian Adamson | 3,447 | Elected | 15 | |
| UK Unionist | Denny Vitty | 1,362 | Not elected | ||
| Social Democratic and Labour | Peter Jones | 1,025 | Not elected | ||
| Ulster Unionist | Jim Rodgers | 1,015 | Not elected | ||
| Alliance (NI) | Richard Good | 1,000 | Not elected | ||
| Sinn Féin | Joseph O'Donnell | 917 | Not elected | ||
| NI Women's Coalition | Pearl Sager | 711 | Not elected | ||
| Democratic Unionist | Sammy Wilson | 633 | Elected | 12 | |
| Ulster Democratic | Robert Girvan | 516 | Not elected | ||
| Democratic Unionist | John Norris | 373 | Not elected | ||
| Labour (NI) | David Bleakley | 369 | Not elected | ||
| Progressive Unionist | Dawn Purvis | 271 | Not elected | ||
| Conservative | Lesley Donaldson | 203 | Not elected | ||
| Workers Party | Joseph Bell | 79 | Not elected | ||
| Natural Law | David Collins | 22 | Not elected | ||
| Independent | John Lawrence | 15 | Not elected | ||
[edit] References
| Assembly constituencies in Northern Ireland | |
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| Belfast East | Belfast North | Belfast South | Belfast West | East Antrim | East Londonderry | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | Foyle | Lagan Valley | Mid Ulster | Newry and Armagh | North Antrim | North Down | South Antrim | South Down | Strangford | Upper Bann | West Tyrone | |
