Boyd Douglas Explained

Boyd Douglas
Office:Member of Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council
Constituency:Benbradagh
Term Start:22 May 2014
Term End:2 May 2019
Predecessor:Council created
Successor:Edgar Scott
Office1:Member of Limavady Borough Council
Constituency1:Benbradagh
Term Start1:21 May 1997
Term End1:22 May 2014
Predecessor1:David Robinson
Successor1:Council abolished
Constituency Am2:East Londonderry
Assembly2:Northern Ireland
Term Start2:25 June 1998
Term End2:26 November 2003
Predecessor2:New Creation
Successor2:Norman Hillis
Birth Date:13 July 1950
Birth Place:Dungiven, Northern Ireland
Party:Traditional Unionist Voice (2011 - present)
Ulster Unionist Party (until 1997)
Otherparty:Independent Unionist (1998 - 2011)
United Unionist Coalition (1998 - 2011)

Albert Boyd Douglas, known as Boyd Douglas (born 13 July 1950) is a Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) politician who was a Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Councillor for the Benbradagh DEA from 2014 to 2019. Douglas previously served as an Independent Unionist Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Londonderry from 1998 to 2003.

Career

The son of William Douglas (Northern Ireland politician), he attended Strabane Agriculture College before working as a farmer. At the 1997 local elections, Douglas was elected onto Limavady Borough Council for the Benbradagh District. He was elected to the council as an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) member, but soon resigned in opposition to the Good Friday Agreement.

Douglas was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998 as an independent Unionist representing East Londonderry. With two other anti-agreement Unionists, he formed the United Unionist Coalition. He retained his seat on the council in 2001, but lost his Assembly seat, along with all the other Coalition MLAs, in 2003. In 2005, he was able to top the poll in his seat in Limavady.

Douglas subsequently joined Traditional Unionist Voice, and contested East Londonderry seat for the party at the 2011 Assembly election, in which he came 10th out of the 12 candidates and was not elected to a seat.[1] In reference to his decision to run, Douglas said: "Though public service has been part of my life and upbringing, returning to Stormont has not been a burning ambition. But while I’ve watched the past 4 years of failure and deadlock, with virtually nothing done for East Londonderry, I’ve concluded it requires us all, myself included, to try and make things better."[2]

He was also re-elected onto Limavady Borough Council on the Council election that same day. Douglas was later elected on the newly-formed Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council at the 2014 local elections, again representing Benbradagh. He was one of three TUV representatives to be elected to the council in that election. At the 2019 local elections, however, Douglas lost his seat to the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) candidate.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Boyd Douglas for East Londonderry | - Traditional Unionist Voice . 2012-08-23 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120319100153/http://www.tuv.org.uk/press-releases/view/1046/boyd-douglas-for-east-londonderry . 2012-03-19 .
  2. Web site: TUV.org article. Tuv.org. August 23, 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120319100153/http://www.tuv.org.uk/press-releases/view/1046/boyd-douglas-for-east-londonderry. 19 March 2012. dmy-all.