North Antrim (Assembly constituency)
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| North Antrim Northern Ireland Assembly County constituency |
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| North Antrim shown within Northern Ireland | |
| First Used: | 1973 |
| Assembly Members: | Robert Coulter Daithi McKay Declan O'Loan Ian Paisley Ian Paisley Jr Mervyn Storey |
| Districts: | Ballymena, Ballymoney, Moyle |
North Antrim 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 North Antrim 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 North Antrim (UK Parliament constituency).
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[edit] Members
The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2007 election are:
- Robert Coulter — Ulster Unionist Party
- Daithi McKay — Sinn Fein
- Declan O'Loan — Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Ian Paisley — Democratic Unionist Party
- Ian Paisley Jr — Democratic Unionist Party
- Mervyn Storey — Democratic Unionist Party
The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2003 election were:
- Robert Coulter — Ulster Unionist Party
- Sean Farren — Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Philip McGuigan — Sinn Fein
- Ian Paisley — Democratic Unionist Party
- Ian Paisley Jr — Democratic Unionist Party
- Mervyn Storey — Democratic Unionist Party
In the 1998 election the six MLAs elected were:
- Robert Coulter — Ulster Unionist Party
- Sean Farren — Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Gardiner Kane — Democratic Unionist Party
- James Leslie — Ulster Unionist Party
- Ian Paisley — Democratic Unionist Party
- Ian Paisley Jr — Democratic Unionist Party
- Gardiner Kane resigned from the Democratic Unionist Party and contested the 2003 election as an independent Unionist.
In the 1996 election to the Northern Ireland Peace Forum, 5 Forum members were elected from North Antrim. They were as follows:
- Robert Coulter — Ulster Unionist Party
- Sean Farren — Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Joe Gaston — Ulster Unionist Party
- Ian Paisley — Democratic Unionist Party
- Ian Paisley Jr — 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. North Antrim elected 8 members as follows:
- Jim Allister — Democratic Unionist Party
- Roy Beggs — Ulster Unionist Party
- Cecil Cousley — Democratic Unionist Party
- Sean Farren — Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Joe Gaston — Ulster Unionist Party
- Jack McKee — Democratic Unionist Party
- Séan Neeson — Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- Ian Paisley 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 seven members elected from North Antrim were:
- David Allen — Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
- Ken McFaul — Democratic Unionist Party
- Ian Paisley — Democratic Unionist Party
- Clifford Smyth — Democratic Unionist Party
- John Turnley — Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Hugh Wilson — Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- William Wright — Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
In 1973 elections were held to the Assembly set up under the Sunningdale Agreement. The seven members elected from North Antrim were:
- John Baxter — Ulster Unionist Party (pro Sunningdale Agreement)
- James Craig — Democratic Unionist Party
- William Craig — Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
- John O'Hagen — Social Democratic and Labour Party
- David McCarthy — Ulster Unionist Party (pro Sunningdale Agreement)
- Ian Paisley — Democratic Unionist Party
- Hugh Wilson — Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- David McCarthy was killed in a car crash. The subsequent by-election on June 20, 1974 was won by Clifford Smyth of the Democratic Unionist Party
[edit] Elections
[edit] 2007
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | Result | Count | |
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| Democratic Unionist | Ian Paisley | 7,716 | Elected | 1 | |
| Sinn Féin | Daithi McKay | 7,065 | Elected | 1 | |
| Democratic Unionist | Ian Paisley Jr | 6,106 | Elected | 2 | |
| Democratic Unionist | Mervyn Storey | 5,171 | Elected | 8 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Robert Coulter | 5,047 | Elected | 7 | |
| Social Democratic and Labour | Declan O'Loan | 3,281 | Elected | 10 | |
| Democratic Unionist | Deirdre Nelson | 2,740 | Not elected | 10 | |
| Social Democratic and Labour | Orla Black | 2,129 | Not elected | 9 | |
| UK Unionist | Lyle Cubitt | 1,848 | Not elected | 7 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Robin Swann | 1,281 | Not elected | 6 | |
| Alliance (NI) | Jayne Dunlop | 1,254 | Not elected | 5 | |
| Independent (Republican) | Paul McGlinchey | 383 | Not elected | 4 | |
| Independent | James Gregg | 310 | Not elected | 4 | |
[edit] 2003
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | Result | Count | |
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| Democratic Unionist | Ian Paisley | 8,732 | Elected | 1 | |
| Democratic Unionist | Ian Paisley Jr | 7,898 | Elected | 1 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Robert Coulter | 6,385 | Elected | 1 | |
| Sinn Féin | Philip McGuigan | 6,195 | Elected | 9 | |
| Social Democratic and Labour | Sean Farren | 3,648 | Elected | 9 | |
| Democratic Unionist | Mervyn Storey | 3,605 | Elected | 3 | |
| Ulster Unionist | James Currie | 3,153 | Not elected | ||
| Social Democratic and Labour | Declan O'Loan | 2,361 | Not elected | ||
| Alliance (NI) | Jayne Dunlop | 867 | Not elected | ||
| Independent | Gardiner Kane | 623 | Not elected | ||
| UK Unionist | Nathaniel Small | 402 | Not elected | ||
| Progressive Unionist | Billy McCaughey | 230 | Not elected | ||
[edit] 1998
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | Result | Count | |
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| Democratic Unionist | Ian Paisley | 10,590 | Elected | ||
| Social Democratic and Labour | Sean Farren | 6,433 | Elected | ||
| Ulster Unionist | Robert Coulter | 5,407 | Elected | ||
| Democratic Unionist | Ian Paisley Jr | 4,459 | Elected | ||
| Democratic Unionist | Gardiner Kane | 3,638 | Elected | ||
| Ulster Unionist | James Leslie | 3,458 | Elected | ||
| Independent Unionist | William Wright | 3,297 | Not elected | ||
| Alliance (NI) | Jayne Dunlop | 2,282 | Not elected | ||
| Ulster Unionist | Patricia Campbell | 2,199 | Not elected | ||
| Sinn Féin | James McCarry | 2,024 | Not elected | ||
| Sinn Féin | Joe Cahill | 2,021 | Not elected | ||
| Social Democratic and Labour | Malachy McCamphill | 1,982 | Not elected | ||
| Progressive Unionist | Richard Rodgers | 641 | Not elected | ||
| Independent Nationalist | Oliver McMullan | 478 | Not elected | ||
| Ulster Democratic | Maurice McAllister | 400 | Not elected | ||
| Independent | Chris McCaughan | 194 | Not elected | ||
| Natural Law | John Wright | 156 | Not elected | ||
| Independent | Thomas Palmer | 38 | 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 | |
