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Ken McFaul

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Kenneth McFaul (born 1948) is a politician from Northern Ireland.

McFaul was a member of the Protestant Unionist Party and a founder of their successor group the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).[1] He represented the party as a member of the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention for East Antrim and was a member of Carrickfergus Borough Council from 1973 to 1985, serving as Mayor from 1981 to 1983.[1] He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly election.[1] He left the DUP in 1984 after missing out to Jim Allister in the race to be the party's general election candidate for East Antrim the previous year.[1]

McFaul would later return to politics with the Traditional Unionist Voice, and was a candidate for the party in the 2014 election to the newly established Mid and East Antrim District Council.[2] He was not elected to the body.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d W. D. Flackes & Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland A Political Directory 1968-1993, Blackstaff Press, 1994, p. 147
  2. ^ 'Retaining local identity' is a common theme for candidates
  3. ^ Mid and East Antrim District Council Elections, 2014
Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention
New convention Member for North Antrim
1975–1976
Convention dissolved