East Londonderry (Assembly constituency)

East Londonderry Northern Ireland Assembly County constituency

East Londonderry shown within Northern Ireland
First Used:	1996
Assembly Members:	Francis Brolly Gregory Campbell John Dallat David McClarty Adrian McQuillan George Robinson
Districts:	Coleraine, Limavady

East Londonderry 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 Londonderry constituency with a small part around Portrush coming from North Antrim constituency. Since 1997, it has shared boundaries with the East Londonderry UK Parliament constituency.

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

[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

Boyd Douglas joined with other independent Unionists to form the United Unionist Coalition on September 14, 1998.
Arthur Doherty resigned from the Assembly on September 1, 2002 and was replaced by Michael Coyle, also SDLP.
Pauline Armitage resigned the UUP whip on November 9, 2001 following her failure to support David Trimble in a vote to re-elect him as First Minister of Northern Ireland. She subsequently sat as an independent unionist and unsuccessfully defended her seat in the 2003 election as a candidate of the UK Unionist Party.

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

	Candidate	1^st Pref	Result	Count
Democratic Unionist Party	Gregory Campbell	6,845	Elected	1
Sinn Féin	Francis Brolly	4,476	Elected	6
Democratic Unionist Party	George Robinson	3,991	Elected	4
Ulster Unionist	David McClarty	2,875	Elected	9
Democratic Unionist Party	Adrian McQuillan	2,650	Elected	9
Social Democratic and Labour	John Dallat	2,538	Elected	8
Sinn Féin	Billy Leonard	2,321	Not elected	8
Ulster Unionist	Norman Hillis	2,054	Not elected	9
Social Democratic and Labour	Orla Beattie	1,797	Not elected	7
Alliance	Bernard Fitzpatrick	1,401	Not elected	5
Ulster Unionist	Edwin Stevenson	1,338	Not elected	4
UK Unionist	Leslie Cubitt	649	Not elected	3
Green Party	Phillippe Moison	521	Not elected	3
(Republican Sinn Féin)	Michael McGonagle	393	Not elected	2
Independent	Victor Christie	73	Not elected	2

	Candidate	1^st Pref	Result	Count
Democratic Unionist Party	Gregory Campbell	4,789	Elected	3
Ulster Unionist	David McClarty	4,069	Elected	4
Sinn Féin	Francis Brolly	4,019	Elected	7
Democratic Unionist Party	George Robinson	3,466	Elected	10
Social Democratic and Labour	John Dallat	3,190	Elected	12
Democratic Unionist Party	Maurice Bradley	2,836	Not elected
Social Democratic and Labour	Michael Coyle	2,394	Not elected
Ulster Unionist	Norman Hillis	2,292	Elected	11
Sinn Féin	Cliona O'Kane	2,102	Not elected
United Unionist Coalition	Boyd Douglas	1,903	Not elected
Ulster Unionist	Edwin Stevenson	1,408	Not elected
UK Unionist	Pauline Armitage	906	Not elected
Alliance	Yvonne Boyle	762	Not elected
Socialist Environmental	Marion Baur	137	Not elected

	Candidate	1^st Pref	Result	Count
Democratic Unionist Party	Gregory Campbell	6,099	Elected
Ulster Unionist	David McClarty	5,108	Elected
Social Democratic and Labour	John Dallat	4,760	Elected
Social Democratic and Labour	Arthur Doherty	4,606	Elected
Independent Unionist	Boyd Douglas	3,811	Elected
Ulster Unionist	Pauline Armitage	3,315	Elected	9
Democratic Unionist Party	George Robinson	3,208	Not elected
Sinn Féin	Malachy O'Kane	2,521	Not elected
Alliance	Barbara Dempsey	2,395	Not elected
Ulster Unionist	Roger McPherson	1,531	Not elected
Sinn Féin	John McIlhenny	1,339	Not elected
Progressive Unionist	Dave Gilmour	582	Not elected
Ulster Democratic	David Nelson	171	Not elected
Natural Law	Maura McCann	46	Not elected

Successful candidates are shown in bold.^[1]

	Candidate(s)	Votes	Percentage
Ulster Unionist	David Brewster John White Pauline Armitage Antony Alcock Elizabeth Black	11,386	30.9
Democratic Unionist Party	Robert Bolton Robert Stewart Victor Wilson	8,768	23.8
Social Democratic and Labour	Arthur Doherty John Dallat Patricia Farren Gerald McLaughlin Michael Coyle	7,451	20.3
Sinn Féin	Malachy O'Kane Thomas Donaghey Kevin Kelly John McCloskey Kathleen Kelly	3,413	9.3
Alliance	Yvonne Boyle Bill Mathews Paddy McGowan	2,107	5.7
UK Unionist	Kingsley Nutt Angela Nutt	1,040	2.8
Ulster Democratic	Allister Crawford Robert Mitchell	728	2.0
Progressive Unionist	William Smith William Mitchell	652	1.8
NI Women's Coalition	Avril Watson Mary Mulholland Pauline Nellis	375	1.0
Labour Coalition	Fionnuala Harbinson Alan McKee Peter Scott John Quigley	241	0.6
Conservative	Hubert Mullan John McKeown	208	0.6
Green Party	David Surplus Adeline Curry	189	0.5
Ulster Independence	Bartholomew Hamilton Hugh Kerr John Walker	100	0.3
Workers' Party	Marian Donnelly James McLaughlin	75	0.2
Democratic Left	Odran Dunphy Colm Campbell	45	0.1
Natural Law	Brian McEnery Lee Silvera	14	0.0
Independent Chambers	Jonathan Chambers Maureen Holmes Neill Chambers	5	0.0

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