North Down (Assembly constituency)

North Down Northern Ireland Assembly County constituency
North Down shown within Northern Ireland
First Used:	1973
Assembly Members:	Leslie Cree Alex Easton Stephen Farry Alan McFarland Peter Weir Brian Wilson
Districts:	North Down, Ards

North Down 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 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).

Contents 1 Members 2 Elections 2.1 2007 2.2 2003 2.3 1998 2.4 1996 Forum 2.5 1982 2.6 1975 2.7 1973 3 References

Members

The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2007 election are:

• Leslie Cree - Ulster Unionist Party
• Alex Easton - Democratic Unionist Party
• Stephen Farry - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
• Alan McFarland - Ulster Unionist Party
• Peter Weir - Democratic Unionist Party
• Brian Wilson - Green Party in Northern Ireland

The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2003 election were:

• Eileen Bell - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
• Leslie Cree - Ulster Unionist Party
• Alex Easton - Democratic Unionist Party
• Robert McCartney - UK Unionist Party
• Alan McFarland - Ulster Unionist Party
• Peter Weir - Democratic Unionist Party

In the 1998 election the six MLAs elected were:

• Eileen Bell — Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
• John Gorman — Ulster Unionist Party
• Robert McCartney — UK Unionist Party
• Alan McFarland — Ulster Unionist Party
• Jane Morrice — Northern Ireland Women's Coalition
• Peter Weir — Ulster Unionist Party

Changes 1998-2003

• Peter Weir moved from the Ulster Unionist Party to the Democratic Unionist Party on April 29, 2002.

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

• St Clair McAlister — Democratic Unionist Party
• Robert McCartney — UK Unionist Party
• Alan McFarland — Ulster Unionist Party
• Oliver Napier — Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
• Peter Weir — Ulster Unionist 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. North Down elected 8 members as follows:

• William Bleakes — Ulster Unionist Party
• John Cushnahan — Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
• Lord Dunleath — Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
• Simpson Gibson — Democratic Unionist Party
• James Kilfedder — Ulster Popular Unionist Party
• Robert McCartney — Ulster Unionist Party
• Wesley Pentland — Democratic Unionist Party
• John Taylor — Ulster 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 seven members elected from North Down were:

• John Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough — Unionist Party of Northern Ireland
• Lord Dunleath — Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
• George Green — Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
• James Kilfedder — Ulster Unionist Party
• Bertie McConnell — Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
• Charles Poots — Democratic Unionist Party
• John Taylor — Ulster Unionist Party

In 1973 elections were held to the Assembly set up under the Sunningdale Agreement. The seven members elected from North Down were:

• John Brooke — Ulster Unionist Party pro Sunningdale
• William Brownlow — Ulster Unionist Party pro Sunningdale
• Robert Campbell — Ulster Unionist Party pro Sunningdale
• Lord Dunleath — Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
• James Kilfedder — Ulster Unionist Party anti-Sunningdale
• Bertie McConnell — Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
• Charles Poots Democratic Unionist Party

Elections

2007

Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	Democratic Unionist	Alex Easton	4,946	Elected	1
	Democratic Unionist	Peter Weir	3,376	Elected	10
	Alliance	Stephen Farry	3,131	Elected	7
	Ulster Unionist	Leslie Cree	2,937	Elected	10
	Green (NI)	Brian Wilson	2,839	Elected	10
	Ulster Unionist	Alan McFarland	2,245	Elected	10
	Democratic Unionist	Alan Graham	2,147	Not elected	10
	Ulster Unionist	Marion Smith	2,098	Not elected	10
	UK Unionist	Robert McCartney	1,806	Not elected	7
	Independent	Brian Rowan	1,194	Not elected	7
	Independent	Alan Chambers	1,129	Not elected	8
	Social Democratic and Labour	Liam Logan	1,105	Not elected	9
	Conservative	James Leslie	864	Not elected	4
	Sinn Féin	Deaglan Page	390	Not elected	3
	Progressive Unionist	Elaine Martin	367	Not elected	3
	Independent	Christopher Carter	123	Not elected	2

2003

Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	Ulster Unionist	Leslie Cree	3,900	Elected	13
	Democratic Unionist	Peter Weir	3,675	Elected	14
	Democratic Unionist	Alex Easton	3,570	Elected	14
	Ulster Unionist	Alan McFarland	3,421	Elected	14
	UK Unionist	Robert McCartney	3,374	Elected	14
	Ulster Unionist	Diana Peacocke	2,566	Not elected
	Alliance	Eileen Bell	1,951	Elected	13
	Social Democratic and Labour	Liam Logan	1,519	Not elected
	Independent	Brian Wilson	1,350	Not elected
	NI Women's Coalition	Jane Morrice	1,181	Not elected
	Independent	Alan Chambers	1,077	Not elected
	Green (NI)	John Barry	730	Not elected
	Alliance	Stephen Farry	704	Not elected
	Conservative	Julian Robertson	491	Not elected
	Independent	Alan Field	428	Not elected
	Progressive Unionist	David Rose	316	Not elected
	Sinn Féin	Maria George	264	Not elected
	UK Unionist	Tom Sheridan	209	Not elected
	Independent	Christopher Carter	109	Not elected

1998

Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	UK Unionist	Robert McCartney	8,188	Elected	1
	Ulster Unionist	John Gorman	4,719	Elected	6
	Ulster Unionist	Alan McFarland	4,653	Elected	6
	Alliance	Eileen Bell	3,669	Elected	9
	Ulster Unionist	Peter Weir	2,775	Elected	12
	Social Democratic and Labour	Marietta Farrell	2,048	Not elected
	NI Women's Coalition	Jane Morrice	1,808	Elected	12
	Alliance	Gavin Walker	1,699	Not elected
	Democratic Unionist	Alan Graham	1,558	Not elected
	Independent	Alan Chambers	1,382	Not elected
	Progressive Unionist	Stewart Currie	1,376	Not elected
	Independent	Brian Wilson	1,327	Not elected
	Democratic Unionist	St Clair McAlister	1,013	Not elected
	Conservative	Leonard Fee	337	Not elected
	Ulster Democratic	Tom Lindsay	265	Not elected
	Labour Party NI	Vanessa Baird-Gunning	212	Not elected
	UK Unionist	Elizabeth Roche	173	Not elected
	Independent Voice	Christopher Carter	72	Not elected
	Natural Law	Andrea Gribben	39	Not elected

1996 Forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.^[1]

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

1982

Assembly Election – 20th October, 1982
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
	Ulster Popular Unionist	James Kilfedder	13958
	Ulster Unionist	John Taylor	5852	7258
	Democratic Unionist	Simpson Gibson	4500	4856	4913	4942	4985	6391	6391
	Alliance	John Cushnahan	4416	4492	4501	4502	4936	4943	6068	6069
	Alliance	Charles Mulholland	3841	4210	4284	4293	4881	4919	5960	5961	6161	6161	6161
	Ulster Unionist	Robert McCartney	3782	4403	4583	4606	4997	5015	5030	5033	5860	5978	6131	6131
	Democratic Unionist	Wesley Pentland	3340	3621	3705	3723	3761	4089	4097	4345	4486	6930
	Democratic Unionist	Charles Poots	2811	3024	3083	3100	3124	3315	3318	3362	3436
	Ulster Unionist	William Bleakes	2692	2930	3028	3049	3202	3241	3244	3246	4401	4778	5278	5336	5383
	Social Democratic and Labour	Patrick Doherty	2536	2546	2547	2549	2567	2568
	Democratic Unionist	Thomas Gourley	2060	2277	2315	2333	2392
	Ulster Unionist	Hazel Bradford	1966	2448	2694	2722	2931	3028	3033	3037
	Alliance	Brian Wilson	1055	1118	1135	1136
	Ulster Popular Unionist	George Green	958	4266	4472	4508	4596	4679	4685	4689	4967	5126	5330	5364	5377
	Ulster Unionist	David McNarry	671	827	924	936
	United Ulster Unionist	Robert Gabby	181	217	228
Electorate=103619, valid=54619, spoiled=1182, quota=6069

1975

Constitutional Convention Election – 1 May , 1975
Party		Candidate	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Ulster Unionist	James Kilfedder	21693
	Ulster Unionist	John Taylor	7238	7238	7238	7238	7238	7238	7238	7238
	Alliance	Charles Mulholland	4616	5109	5119	5201	5569	7182	9226
	Vanguard	George Green	4408	8063
	Social Democratic and Labour	Sean Hollywood	3988	4005	4006	4014	4056	4150
	Unionist Party NI	John Brooke	3555	4435	4459	4873	6340	6416	6480	6535
	Alliance	Bertie McConnell	3099	3420	3427	3549	3619	4377	5710	7064
	Democratic Unionist	Charles Poots	2962	6778	7072	7137	7209	7228	7228	7228
	Alliance	Keith Jones	2424	2550	2553	2586	2646
	Unionist Party NI	William Brownlow	1638	1939	1950	2281
	Ulster Unionist	Neil Oliver	1257	5727	6180	6333	6453	6494	6508	6515
	Unionist Party NI	Robert Campbell	901	1263	1288
Electorate=93884, valid=57779, spoiled=989, quota=7223

1973

Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	Ulster Unionist	Jim Kilfedder	20,684	Elected
	Ulster Unionist	John Brooke	6,160	Elected
	Alliance	Charles Mulholland	4,482	Elected
	Democratic Unionist	Charles Poots	4,364	Elected
	Ulster Unionist	Robert Campbell	3,760	Elected
	Alliance	Bertie McConnell	3,271	Elected
	Social Democratic and Labour	Patrick McHenry	2,833	Not elected
	Ulster Unionist	William Brownlow	2,620	Elected
	Vanguard	George Green	2,425	Not elected
	Ulster Unionist	Andrew Donaldson	1,950	Not elected
	Ulster Unionist	Kathleen McClure	1,796	Not elected
	Alliance	Cecilia Linehan	1,493	Not elected
	Labour (NI)	William Allen	1,354	Not elected
	Vanguard	Kenneth Leckey	1,290	Not elected
	Ulster Unionist	Hans Jess	1,227	Not elected
	Alliance	John Marks	699	Not elected
	Labour (NI)	Kenneth Young	601	Not elected
	Vanguard	David Trimble	446	Not elected

References

1. ^ 1996 Candidates - North Down, Northern Ireland Elections]

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