John Junkin (Northern Ireland politician)
John Junkin (born 1949) is a former unionist politician in Northern Ireland.
Long active in the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), Junkin was elected to Magherafelt District Council at the 1981 Northern Ireland local elections,[1] and held a seat in Moyola in 1985, 1989 and 1993.[2][3] By the start of the 1990s, he was a Vice-President of the UUP, serving alongside Ken Maginnis, Martin Smyth and Hazel Bradford.[4]
Junkin was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996, representing Mid Ulster,[5] and held his council seat in 1997,[3] but lost out in the 1998 Northern Ireland Assembly election, to fellow party member Billy Armstrong.[6]
Although Junkin was re-elected to Magherafelt Council in 2001, he then resigned from the UUP and stood as an independent in 2005.[3] He lost his seat, defeated by new UUP candidate Jackie Crawford.[7] He subsequently left politics, but hit the local news in 2007 after a boat which he had fitted out for the use of an autistic child was destroyed by arson.[8]
References
- ^ "The Local Government Elections 1973–1981: Magherafelt", Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ "Local Government Elections 1985 – 1989: Magherafelt", Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ a b c "Magherafelt District Council Elections 1993–2011", Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Vol.159 (1991), p.679
- ^ 1996 "Forum Elections: Candidates in Mid Ulster", Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ "Mid Ulster", Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ "SF take control in Magherafelt", Mid Ulster Mail, 20 May 2005
- ^ "Vandals destroy boat used by autistic child", Mid Ulster Mail, 3 October 2007