South Down (Assembly constituency)

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South Down
Northern Ireland Assembly County constituency
South Down shown within Northern Ireland
First Used: 1973
Assembly Members: P. J. Bradley
Willie Clarke
John McCallister
Margaret Ritchie
Caitriona Ruane
Jim Wells
Districts: Down, Banbridge, Newry and Mourne

South Down 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 Down 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 Down (UK Parliament constituency).

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[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:

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

Raymond McCullough died in 1985 and the resulting by-election, on October 17, 1985, was won by Jeffrey Donaldson, also Ulster 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 South Down were:

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

[edit] Elections

[edit] 2007

Party Candidate 1st Pref Result Count
Sinn Féin Caitriona Ruane 6,334 Elected 7
Social Democratic and Labour Margaret Ritchie 5,838 Elected 8
Social Democratic and Labour P. J. Bradley 5,652 Elected 9
Democratic Unionist Jim Wells 5,542 Elected 10
Sinn Féin Willie Clarke 5,138 Elected 8
Ulster Unionist John McCallister 4,447 Elected 11
Social Democratic and Labour Michael Carr 2,972 Not elected 11
Sinn Féin Eamonn McConvey 2,662 Not elected 7
Democratic Unionist William Burns 2,611 Not elected 9
Green (NI) Ciaran Mussen 1,622 Not elected 6
UK Independence Henry Reilly 1,229 Not elected 5
Alliance (NI) David Griffin 691 Not elected 4
Independent (Republican) Martin Cunningham 434 Not elected 4
UK Unionist Frederick Wharton 424 Not elected 4
Conservative Peter Bowles 391 Not elected 3
Labour (NI) Malachi Curran 123 Not elected 2

[edit] 2003

Party Candidate 1st Pref Result Count
Democratic Unionist Jim Wells 6,789 Elected 1
Ulster Unionist Dermot Nesbitt 5,368 Elected 8
Social Democratic and Labour P. J. Bradley 5,337 Elected 4
Sinn Féin Caitriona Ruane 5,118 Elected 9
Social Democratic and Labour Margaret Ritchie 4,261 Elected 9
Sinn Féin Willie Clarke 4,083 Elected 9
Social Democratic and Labour Eamonn O'Neill 3,942 Not elected
Ulster Unionist Jim Donaldson 2,885 Not elected
Sinn Féin Eamonn McConvey 2,806 Not elected
Social Democratic and Labour Marion Fitzpatrick 2,382 Not elected
Green (NI) Raymond Blaney 799 Not elected
NI Women's Coalition Trudy Miller 565 Not elected
Alliance (NI) Neil Powell 489 Not elected
UK Independence Nelson Wharton 245 Not elected
Independent Malachi Curran 162 Not elected
Workers Party Desmond O'Hagan 115 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
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