South Antrim (Assembly constituency)
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Coordinates: 54°37′48″N 6°08′02″W / 54.630°N 6.134°W
| South Antrim Northern Ireland Assembly County constituency |
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| South Antrim shown within Northern Ireland | |
| First Used: | 1973 |
| Assembly Members: | Trevor Clarke David Ford Paul Girvan Danny Kinahan Pam Lewis Mitchel McLaughlin |
| Districts: | Antrim, Lisburn, 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).
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[edit] Members
The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2011 election are:
- Trevor Clarke – Democratic Unionist Party
- David Ford – Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- Paul Girvan – Democratic Unionist Party
- Danny Kinahan – Ulster Unionist Party
- Pam Lewis – Democratic Unionist Party
- Mitchel McLaughlin – Sinn Féin
The highest profile MLA would be David Ford; leader of the Alliance Party and Minister for Justice.
The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2007 election are:
- Thomas Burns – Social Democratic and Labour Party
- David Burnside – Ulster Unionist Party
- Trevor Clarke – Democratic Unionist Party
- David Ford – Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- William McCrea – Democratic Unionist Party
- Mitchel McLaughlin – Sinn Féin
The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2003 election were:
- Thomas Burns – Social Democratic and Labour Party
- David Burnside – Ulster Unionist Party
- Wilson Clyde – Democratic Unionist Party
- David Ford – Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- Paul Girvan – Democratic Unionist Party
- Jim Wilson – Ulster Unionist Party
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:
- Wilson Clyde Democratic Unionist Party
- John Hunter Ulster Unionist Party
- Peter King Ulster Unionist Party
- Trevor Kirkland Democratic Unionist Party
- Donovan McClelland Social Democratic and Labour 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. South Antrim elected 10 members (an exceptionally high number which some commentators believe to be impractical) as follows:
- Fraser Agnew Ulster Unionist Party
- William Beattie Democratic Unionist Party
- Billy Bell Ulster Unionist Party
- Seamus Close Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- Ivan Davis Democratic Unionist Party
- Clifford Forsythe Ulster Unionist Party
- Gordon Mawhinney Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- James McDonald Social Democratic and Labour Party
- James Molyneaux Ulster Unionist Party
- Roy Thompson 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 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] Northern Ireland Assembly
| 2011 Assembly election: South Antrim | |||||||
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| Party | Candidate | % 1st Pref | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | |
| Democratic Unionist | Paul Girvan | 15.1 | 4,844 | 4,844 | 4,844 | 4,844 | |
| Sinn Féin | Mitchell McLaughlin | 14.5 | 4,662 | 4,662 | 4,662 | 4,662 | |
| Democratic Unionist | Trevor Clarke | 14.3 | 4,607 | 4,607 | 4,607 | 4,607 | |
| Alliance | David Ford | 14.5 | 4,544 | 4,660 | 4,660 | 4,660 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Danny Kinahan | 10.7 | 3,445 | 3,826 | 5,585 | ||
| SDLP | Thomas Burns | 10.6 | 3,406 | 3,436 | 3,482 | 3,590.56 | |
| Democratic Unionist | Pam Lewis | 8.9 | 2,866 | 3,329 | 3,797 | 4,668.24 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Adrian Cochrane-Watson | 7.1 | 2,285 | 2,568 | |||
| Traditional Unionist Voice | Mel Lucas | 3.4 | 1,091 | ||||
| BNP | Stephen Parkes | 1.3 | 404 | ||||
| Electorate: 65,231 Valid: 32,164 Spoilt: 488 Quota: 4,595 Turnout: 32,652 (50.06%) | |||||||
| Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | Result | Count | |
| Sinn Féin | Mitchel McLaughlin | 6,313 | Elected | 1 | |
| Democratic Unionist | William McCrea | 6,023 | Elected | 1 | |
| Alliance | 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 | |
| SDLP | Thomas Burns | 2,721 | Elected | 8 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Danny Kinahan | 2,391 | Not elected | 6 | |
| SDLP | 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 | |
| Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2003 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st 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 | David Ford | 3,393 | Elected | 11 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Jim Wilson | 3,135 | Elected | 9 | |
| SDLP | Thomas Burns | 2,732 | Elected | 11 | |
| SDLP | 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 | ||
| Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1998 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | Result | Count | |
| Ulster Unionist | Jim Wilson | 6,691 | Elected | ||
| Democratic Unionist | Wilson Clyde | 6,034 | Elected | ||
| UK Unionist | Norman Boyd | 4,360 | Elected | ||
| SDLP | Donovan McClelland | 4,309 | Elected | ||
| Ulster Unionist | Duncan Shipley-Dalton | 4,147 | Elected | ||
| Alliance | David Ford | 3,778 | Elected | ||
| SDLP | 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 Party NI | Oliver Frawley | 137 | Not elected | ||
| Natural Law | George Stidolph | 28 | Not elected | ||
[edit] 1996 Forum
Successful candidates are shown in bold.[1]
| Party | Candidate(s) | Votes | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ulster Unionist | Peter King John Hunter Ivan Hunter Peter Walker Mervyn Rea |
12,001 | 30.2 | |
| Democratic Unionist | Wilson Clyde Trevor Kirkland |
9,549 | 24.0 | |
| SDLP | Donovan McClelland Bobby Burns Tommy McTeague Bobby Loughran Oran Keenan |
6,025 | 15.1 | |
| Alliance | David Ford Jim Rooney Lynn Frazer |
3,332 | 8.4 | |
| Sinn Féin | Henry Cushinan Pauline Davey-Kennedy Laurence McKeown |
2,149 | 5.4 | |
| UK Unionist | Billy Boyd Stephen Nicholl |
2,111 | 5.3 | |
| Progressive Unionist | Kenneth Wilkinson Mark Thompson |
1,697 | 4.3 | |
| Ulster Democratic | William Blair David Burgess |
1,000 | 2.5 | |
| NI Women's Coalition | Joan Cosgrove Rosaleen Pelen Sandra Walsh Anne McKenna |
435 | 1.1 | |
| Independent Templeton | Arthur Templeton Fraser Agnew |
250 | 0.7 | |
| Conservative | Agnes Shirley Roger Lomas David Bustard |
246 | 0.6 | |
| Labour Coalition | Eleanor Bailey Peter Ruddell Glen Simpson |
236 | 0.6 | |
| Green (NI) | Alan Warren John Spottiswoode |
197 | 0.5 | |
| Democratic Left | Paul Gupta Paddy McGlinley |
119 | 0.3 | |
| Democratic Partnership | Rodney Greene Paul Mullan |
105 | 0.3 | |
| Workers' Party | Eamon Gillen Bobby Owens |
104 | 0.3 | |
| Ulster Independence | Francis Ellison Samuel Parke |
89 | 0.2 | |
| Independent McMullan | John McDowell William Dunbar |
33 | 0.1 | |
| Natural Law | Margaret Adams Mark Griffiths |
16 | 0.0 | |
| Independent Chambers | William Larmour Greta Bunting |
3 | 0.0 | |
[edit] 1982
| Assembly Election – 20 October 1982 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | Count 7 | Count 8 | Count 9 | Count 10 | Count 11 | Count 12 | Count 13 | Count 14 | Count 15 | Count 16 | Count 17 | Count 18 | Count 19 | Count 20 | Count 21 | Count 22 | Count 23 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Jim Molyneaux | 19978 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Democratic Unionist | William Beattie | 7489 | 7489 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Democratic Unionist | Ivan Davis | 5394 | 6170 | 6170 | 6170 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Ulster Unionist | Fraser Agnew | 3302 | 6201 | 6201 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Alliance | Seamus Close | 2916 | 2968 | 2975 | 2976 | 2977 | 2979 | 2990 | 2992 | 3034 | 3044 | 3090 | 3139 | 3140 | 3417 | 3422 | 4166 | 4240 | 4274 | 4284 | 4286 | 4289 | 4750 | 5806 | |
| SDLP | John Clenaghan | 2802 | 2806 | 2808 | 2808 | 2809 | 2809 | 2830 | 2830 | 2850 | 2851 | 2887 | 3083 | 3083 | 3297 | 3299 | 3318 | 4174 | 4178 | 4189 | 4190 | 4191 | |||
| Alliance | Gordon Mawhinney | 2660 | 2774 | 2777 | 2778 | 2779 | 2779 | 2785 | 2793 | 2890 | 2916 | 2951 | 2970 | 2976 | 3084 | 3102 | 4426 | 4462 | 4586 | 4613 | 4617 | 4626 | 4751 | 5100 | |
| Democratic Unionist | Roy Thompson | 2646 | 3035 | 3165 | 3165 | 3171 | 3172 | 3175 | 3192 | 3194 | 3254 | 3256 | 3257 | 3793 | 3803 | 3845 | 3868 | 3872 | 3999 | 6419 | |||||
| Alliance | Joan Tomlin | 2107 | 2214 | 2216 | 2217 | 2217 | 2217 | 2217 | 2221 | 2290 | 2326 | 2336 | 2352 | 2366 | 2523 | 2546 | |||||||||
| SDLP | Patrick Ritchie | 2081 | 2083 | 2083 | 2083 | 2083 | 2084 | 2097 | 2097 | 2111 | 2115 | 2136 | 2438 | 2441 | 2633 | 2633 | 2672 | ||||||||
| SDLP | James McDonald | 2071 | 2073 | 2073 | 2073 | 2073 | 2074 | 2091 | 2091 | 2115 | 2115 | 2157 | 2652 | 2653 | 2853 | 2853 | 2873 | 4397 | 4400 | 4402 | 4402 | 4402 | 7460 | ||
| Independent Unionist | George Herron | 1797 | 2237 | 2284 | 2287 | 2291 | 2301 | 2302 | 2345 | 2382 | 2543 | 2545 | 2545 | 2622 | 2632 | 2850 | 2891 | 2891 | |||||||
| Ulster Unionist | Clifford Forsythe | 1612 | 4243 | 4283 | 4306 | 4319 | 4325 | 4327 | 4376 | 4408 | 4559 | 4563 | 4563 | 4642 | 4654 | 5437 | 5500 | 5501 | 6249 | 6249 | 6249 | ||||
| Democratic Unionist | Trevor Kirkland | 1265 | 1364 | 2142 | 2143 | 2157 | 2165 | 2165 | 2220 | 2242 | 2325 | 2327 | 2328 | 3044 | 3051 | 3120 | 3141 | 3141 | 3468 | ||||||
| Democratic Unionist | Samuel Neill | 1250 | 1377 | 1557 | 1558 | 1562 | 1569 | 1569 | 1597 | 1609 | 1672 | 1673 | 1674 | ||||||||||||
| Independent SDLP | William McDonnell | 1180 | 1182 | 1182 | 1182 | 1182 | 1182 | 1189 | 1189 | 1203 | 1206 | 1236 | |||||||||||||
| Ulster Unionist | Billy Bell | 979 | 2906 | 3039 | 3116 | 3166 | 3198 | 3200 | 3284 | 3331 | 3413 | 3413 | 3417 | 3495 | 3506 | 4049 | 4128 | 4129 | 4898 | 5269 | 5541 | 5678 | 5683 | 5683 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Ivan Hunter | 930 | 1827 | 1845 | 1852 | 1859 | 1870 | 1871 | 1957 | 1975 | 2021 | 2024 | 2025 | 2058 | 2061 | ||||||||||
| Workers' Party | Kevin Smyth | 891 | 902 | 903 | 903 | 903 | 904 | 933 | 935 | 984 | 993 | 1626 | 1705 | 1707 | |||||||||||
| Workers' Party | Austin Kelly | 775 | 779 | 780 | 780 | 781 | 781 | 822 | 822 | 890 | 906 | ||||||||||||||
| Independent Democratic Unionist | James Smith | 686 | 828 | 830 | 836 | 837 | 838 | 841 | 856 | 879 | |||||||||||||||
| Newtownabbey Labour | Bob Kidd | 560 | 600 | 604 | 605 | 605 | 605 | 651 | 658 | ||||||||||||||||
| Ulster Unionist | Frank Millar Jr | 526 | 3407 | 3429 | 3435 | 3449 | 3459 | 3460 | 3507 | 3524 | 3606 | 3609 | 3611 | 3675 | 3682 | 3947 | 3995 | 3997 | 4332 | 4510 | 4589 | 4647 | 4649 | 4652 | |
| Communist Party | Andrew Gibb | 247 | 250 | 250 | 250 | 250 | 251 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United Ulster Unionist | Kennedy Lindsay | 160 | 360 | 365 | 366 | 366 | 473 | 473 | |||||||||||||||||
| United Ulster Unionist | Samuel Larmour | 139 | 196 | 205 | 205 | 208 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Electorate=131734, valid=66443, spoiled=2076, quota=6041 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
[edit] 1975 Constitutional Convention
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | Result[2] | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic Unionist | William Beattie | 11,834 | Elected | ||
| Ulster Unionist | Austin Ardill | 10,895 | Elected | ||
| SDLP | Vincent McCloskey | 6,756 | Elected | ||
| Unionist Party NI | Anne Dickson | 5,723 | Elected | ||
| Alliance | Charles Kinahan | 5,294 | Elected | ||
| Vanguard | Kennedy Lindsay | 4,529 | Elected | ||
| Unionist Party NI | Peter McLachlan | 3,919 | Not elected | ||
| Alliance | John Cousins | 3,228 | Not elected | ||
| Vanguard | George Morrison | 2,943 | Elected | ||
| Democratic Unionist | James Smith | 2,970 | Not elected | ||
| Ulster Unionist | Samuel Semple | 2,813 | Not elected | ||
| Ulster Unionist | John Logan | 2,595 | Not elected | ||
| Democratic Unionist | Stewart Dunlop | 2,461 | Elected | ||
| SDLP | James McDonald | 1,888 | Not elected | ||
| Republican Clubs | Kevin Smith | 710 | Not elected | ||
| Communist Party | William Somerset | 248 | Not elected | ||
[edit] 1973
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | Result[2] | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic Unionist | William Beattie | 10,126 | Elected | ||
| Independent Unionist | Anne Dickson | 9,033 | Elected | ||
| SDLP | Vincent McCloskey | 7,899 | Elected | ||
| Alliance | Derrick Crothers | 5,975 | Elected | ||
| Ulster Unionist | Nat Minford | 5,289 | Elected | ||
| Ulster Unionist | Austin Ardill | 5,234 | Elected | ||
| Democratic Unionist | Allen Annesley | 4,232 | Not elected | ||
| Ulster Unionist | Peter McLachlan | 3,983 | Elected | ||
| Ulster Unionist | George Swann | 3,742 | Not elected | ||
| Vanguard | Kennedy Lindsay | 3,005 | Elected | ||
| Vanguard | William Snoddy | 2,706 | Not elected | ||
| Vanguard | Robert Bradford | 2,587 | Not elected | ||
| Ulster Unionist | John Blakeley | 2,375 | Not elected | ||
| Ulster Unionist | Alexander McGowan | 2,327 | Not elected | ||
| Alliance | William Gawn | 1,709 | Not elected | ||
| Alliance | Joan Tomlin | 1,572 | Not elected | ||
| Labour (NI) | Sandy Scott | 854 | Not elected | ||
| Labour (NI) | Bob Kidd | 740 | Not elected | ||
| Ulster Unionist | William King | 694 | Not elected | ||
| Labour (NI) | Deirdre Byrne | 559 | Not elected | ||
| Labour (NI) | Robert Johnston | 342 | Not elected | ||
[edit] References
- ^ 1996 Candidates – South Antrim, Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ a b South Antrim 1973–82, Northern Ireland elections
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