South Antrim (Assembly constituency)

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South Antrim Northern Ireland Assembly County constituency

South Antrim shown within Northern Ireland
First Used:	1973
Assembly Members:	Thomas Burns David Burnside Trevor Clarke David Ford William McCrea Mitchel McLaughlin
Districts:	Antrim, Newtownabbey

South 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 South 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 South Antrim (UK Parliament constituency).

1 Members
2 Elections
3 References

[edit] Members

The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2007 election are:

The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2003 election were:

In the 1998 election the six MLAs elected were:

Norman Boyd UK Unionist Party
Wilson Clyde Democratic Unionist Party
David Ford Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Donovan McClelland Social Democratic and Labour Party
Duncan Shipley-Dalton Ulster Unionist Party
Jim Wilson Ulster Unionist Party

In the 1996 election to the Northern Ireland Peace Forum, 5 Forum members were elected from North Antrim. They were as follows:

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. South Antrim elected 10 members (an exceptionally high number which some commentators believe to be impractical) as follows:

In 1975 elections were held to a Constitutional Convention which sought (unsuccessfully) to generate a consensus on the future of the province. The eight members elected from South Antrim were:

Austin Ardill Ulster Unionist Party
William Beattie Democratic Unionist Party
Anne Dickson Unionist Party of Northern Ireland
Stewart Dunlop Democratic Unionist Party
Charles Kinahan Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Kennedy Lindsay Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
Vincent McCloskey Social Democratic and Labour Party
George Morrison Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party

In 1973 elections were held to the Assembly set up under the Sunningdale Agreement. The eight members elected from South Antrim were:

Austin Ardill Ulster Unionist Party anti Sunningdale
William Beattie Democratic Unionist Party
Anne Dickson Independent Unionist
Derrick Crothers Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Kennedy Lindsay Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
Vincent McCloskey Social Democratic and Labour Party
Peter McLachlan Ulster Unionist Party pro Sunningdale
Nat Minford Ulster Unionist Party pro Sunningdale

[edit] Elections

[edit] 2007

	Candidate	1^st Pref	Result	Count
Sinn Féin	Mitchel McLaughlin	6,313	Elected	1
Democratic Unionist	William McCrea	6,023	Elected	1
Alliance (NI)	David Ford	5,007	Elected	5
Ulster Unionist	David Burnside	4,507	Elected	7
Democratic Unionist	Trevor Clarke	4,302	Elected	8
Democratic Unionist	Mel Lucas	2,840	Not elected	8
Social Democratic and Labour	Thomas Burns	2,721	Elected	8
Ulster Unionist	Danny Kinahan	2,391	Not elected	6
Social Democratic and Labour	Noreen McClelland	1,526	Not elected	6
Ulster Unionist	Stephen Nicholl	927	Not elected	4
UK Unionist	Robert McCartney	893	Not elected	4
Green (NI)	Pete Whitcroft	507	Not elected	3
Conservative	Stephen O'Brien	129	Not elected	3
Workers Party	Marcella Delaney	89	Not elected	3

[edit] 2003

	Candidate	1^st Pref	Result	Count
Ulster Unionist	David Burnside	7,066	Elected	1
Democratic Unionist	Wilson Clyde	5,131	Elected	5
Democratic Unionist	Paul Girvan	4,820	Elected	6
Sinn Féin	Martin Meehan	4,295	Not elected
Alliance (NI)	David Ford	3,393	Elected	11
Ulster Unionist	Jim Wilson	3,135	Elected	9
Social Democratic and Labour	Thomas Burns	2,732	Elected	11
Social Democratic and Labour	Donovan McClelland	2,671	Not elected
Democratic Unionist	John Smyth	1,501	Not elected
Ulster Unionist	Adrian Cochran-Watson	953	Not elected
NI Unionist	Norman Boyd	774	Not elected
NI Women's Coalition	Joan Cosgrove	465	Not elected
Progressive Unionist	Kenneth Wilkinson	311	Not elected
Conservative	Jason Docherty	174	Not elected

[edit] 1998

	Candidate	1^st Pref	Result
Ulster Unionist	Jim Wilson	6,691	Elected
Democratic Unionist	Wilson Clyde	6,034	Elected
UK Unionist	Norman Boyd	4,360	Elected
Social Democratic and Labour	Donovan McClelland	4,309	Elected
Ulster Unionist	Duncan Shipley-Dalton	4,147	Elected
Alliance (NI)	David Ford	3,778	Elected
Social Democratic and Labour	Thomas Burns	3,474	Not elected
Sinn Féin	Martin Meehan	3,226	Not elected
Democratic Unionist	Stuart Deignan	2,816	Not elected
Ulster Unionist	John Hunter	2,337	Not elected
Progressive Unionist	Kenneth Wilkinson	1,546	Not elected
NI Women's Coalition	Joan Cosgrove	1,108	Not elected
Labour (NI)	Oliver Frawley	137	Not elected
Natural Law	George Stidolph	28	Not elected

[edit] References

Assembly constituencies in Northern Ireland
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