Strangford (Assembly constituency)

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Strangford Northern Ireland Assembly County constituency

Strangford shown within Northern Ireland
First Used:	1996
Assembly Members:	Simon Hamilton Kieran McCarthy Michelle McIlveen David McNarry Iris Robinson Jim Shannon
Districts:	Ards, Catlereagh, Down

Strangford is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996. Since 1998, it has elected members to the current Assembly.

For Assembly elections prior to 1996, the constituency was largely part of the North Down constituency with smaller sections being added from Belfast East constituency and Belfast South constituency. Since 1997, it has shared boundaries with the Strangford UK Parliament constituency.

For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see Strangford (UK Parliament constituency).

1 Members
2 Elections
- 2.1 2007
- 2.2 2003
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:

Changes 1998-2003

Cedric Wilson resigned from the UK Unionist Party and, together with other UKUP Assembly Members, formed the Northern Ireland Unionist Party on January 5, 1999
Thomas Benson died on December 24, 2000 and was succeeded by Thomas Hamilton, also Ulster Unionist Party.

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

[edit] Elections

[edit] 2007

	Candidate	1^st Pref	Result	Count
Democratic Unionist	Iris Robinson	5,917	Elected	1
Democratic Unionist	Jim Shannon	4,788	Elected	6
Alliance (NI)	Kieran McCarthy	4,085	Elected	10
Democratic Unionist	Simon Hamilton	3,889	Elected	14
Ulster Unionist	David McNarry	3,709	Elected	8
Democratic Unionist	Michelle McIlveen	3,468	Elected	14
Social Democratic and Labour	Joe Boyle	3,068	Not elected	14
Ulster Unionist	Angus Carson	2,128	Not elected	9
Sinn Féin	Dermot Kennedy	1,089	Not elected	9
UK Unionist	George Ennis	872	Not elected	7
Green (NI)	Stephanie Sim	860	Not elected	9
Ulster Unionist	Michael Henderson	675	Not elected	5
Independent	David Gregg	650	Not elected	11
Conservative	Robert Little	508	Not elected	4
Independent (Unionist)	Cedric Wilson	305	Not elected	2

[edit] 2003

	Candidate	1^st Pref	Result	Count
Democratic Unionist	Iris Robinson	8,548	Elected	1
Ulster Unionist	John Taylor	5,658	Elected	1
Democratic Unionist	Jim Shannon	4,703	Elected	2
Democratic Unionist	George Ennis	4,606	Elected	2
Ulster Unionist	David McNarry	3,000	Elected	10
Social Democratic and Labour	Joe Boyle	2,906	Not elected
Alliance (NI)	Kieran McCarthy	2,741	Elected
Ulster Unionist	Bob Little	2,123	Not elected
Sinn Féin	Dermot Kennedy	1,105	Not elected
NI Unionist	Cedric Wilson	576	Not elected
Progressive Unionist	Colin Neill	540	Not elected
Green (NI)	Philip Orr	425	Not elected
Independent	Danny McCarthy	319	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