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North Down (Assembly constituency)

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Summary

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Field	Value
name	North Down
type	Northern Ireland Assembly
Parliamentary
year	1973
image	[[Image:NorthDownConstituency.svg	250px]]
caption	North Down shown within Northern Ireland
members_label	MLAs
members	{{unbulleted list
	border	darkgray}} Alan Chambers (UUP)
	border	darkgray}} Stephen Dunne (DUP)
	border	darkgray}} Connie Egan (APNI)
	border	darkgray}} Peter Martin
	border	darkgray}} Andrew Muir (APNI)
seats	6 (1996–2016)
5 (2017–)
local_council_label	Districts
local_council	Ards and North Down Borough Council
blank1_name	Boundaries
blank1_info

The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973. It usually shares boundaries with the North Down 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 North Down (UK Parliament constituency).

Members

Election	MLA
(party)	MLA
(party)	MLA
(party)	MLA
(party)	MLA
(party)	MLA
(party)	MLA
(party)	MLA
(party)	Alliance Party of Northern Ireland}}" rowspan=15	Alliance Party of Northern Ireland}}" rowspan=3	Ulster Unionist Party}}"	Ulster Unionist Party}}"	Ulster Unionist Party}}" rowspan=2	Ulster Unionist Party}}"	Democratic Unionist Party}}" rowspan=4	Unionist Party of Northern Ireland}}"	Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party}}"	Ulster Unionist Party}}" rowspan=2	Ulster Unionist Party}}"	Ulster Unionist Party}}"	Ulster Popular Unionist Party}}"	Democratic Unionist Party}}"	UK Unionist Party}}" rowspan=3	Ulster Unionist Party}}" rowspan=4	Ulster Unionist Party}}" rowspan=2	Ulster Unionist Party}}" rowspan=11	Northern Ireland Women's Coalition}}"	Democratic Unionist Party}}" rowspan=4	Democratic Unionist Party}}"	Green Party in Northern Ireland}}" rowspan=7	Democratic Unionist Party}}" rowspan=8	Alan Chambers
(UUP)	Andrew Muir
(Alliance Party)	Stephen Dunne
(DUP)	Independent Unionist}}"	Alliance Party of Northern Ireland}}" rowspan=2	Connie Egan
(Alliance Party)	Democratic Unionist Party}}"	Peter Martin
(DUP)
1973	Lord Dunleath
(Alliance Party)	Bertie McConnell
(Alliance Party)	John Brooke
(UUP/UPNI)	William Brownlow
(UUP)	James Kilfedder
(UUP/UPUP)	Robert Campbell
(UUP)	Charles Poots
(DUP)	*7 seats
1973–1982*
1975	George Green
(Vanguard)	John Taylor
(UUP)
1982	John Cushnahan
(Alliance Party)	Robert McCartney
(UUP/UKUP)	William Bleakes
(UUP)	Simpson Gibson
(DUP)	Wesley Pentland
(DUP)
1996	Oliver Napier
(Alliance Party)	*5 seats
1996–1998*	*5 seats
1996–1998*	Alan McFarland
(UUP)	Peter Weir
(UUP /
DUP)	St Clair McAlister
(DUP)	*5 seats
1996–1998*
1998	Eileen Bell
(Alliance Party)	*6 seats
1998–2017*	John Gorman
(UUP)	Jane Morrice
(NI Women's Coalition)	*6 seats
1998–2017*
2003	Leslie Cree
(UUP)	Alex Easton
(DUP / Independent Unionist)
2007	Stephen Farry
(Alliance Party)	Brian Wilson
(Green (NI))
2011	Steven Agnew
(Green (NI))	Gordon Dunne
(DUP)
2016
2017	*5 seats
2017–present*	*5 seats
2017–present*	*5 seats
2017–present*
2019 co-option	Rachel Woods
(Green (NI))
2020 co-option
2021 co-option
2022
2024 co-option

Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns. For details of the order in which seats were won at each election, see the detailed results of that election.

Elections

Northern Ireland Assembly

2022

2017

2016

2011

2007

2003

1998

1996 forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.

Party	Candidate(s)	Votes
	Peter Weir
Alan McFarland
Roy Bradford
John Shields
Irene Cree	9,270	25.6
	Robert McCartney
Valerie Kinghan
Patricia Watson	7,579	20.9
	St Clair McAlister
Ruby Cooling
Cecil Noble	6,699	18.5
	Oliver Napier
Brian Wilson
Eileen Bell
Larry Thompson
Jane Copeland	6,186	17.1
	Owen Adams
John Burke	1,798	5.0
	Victor Ash
Samuel Curry
Neil Mehaffy
Kenneth Sterrit	1,694	4.7
	James McCullough
Thomas Lindsay	651	1.8
	Emma McGuigan
Ann Marie Foster
Jane Morrice	496	1.4
	Ann Thompson
Bruce Mulligan	444	1.2
Chambers	Alan Chambers
James Arbuthnot
Robert Irvine	334	0.9
	Paddy McEvoy
Mary Ringland	283	0.8
	Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
John Smith	275	0.8
	John Magennis
Sean McGouran	171	0.5
DUP	Thomas O'Brien
William Baxter	97	0.3
	Daryl Armitage
Tim Davis	95	0.3
	Dessie O'Hagan
Colum Mullan	60	0.2
	Geoffrey Watson
Glenn Pollock	49	0.1
	Christopher Carter
Fidelma Carter	49	0.1
	Peter McGowan
Thomas Mullins	15	0.0

1982 Assembly election

1975 Constitutional Convention

1973 Assembly election

References

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