| East Antrim | |
| Type: | Northern Ireland Assembly Parliamentary |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Members Label: | MLAs |
| Seats: | 6 (1996–2016) 5 (2017–) |
| Local Council Label: | Districts |
| Local Council: | Mid and East Antrim Borough Council Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council |
East Antrim (Ulster Scots: East Anthrim) is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996. Since 1998, it has elected members to the current Assembly.
For Assembly elections prior to 1996, the constituency was largely part of the North Antrim and South Antrim constituencies. From 1997 to 2010 it shared boundaries with the East Antrim UK Parliament constituency; this link was broken by the 2010 Westminster General Election but was restored at the 2011 Assembly elections.
For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see East Antrim (UK Parliament constituency).
| Election | MLA (party) | MLA (party) | MLA (party) | MLA (party) | MLA (party) | MLA (party) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Seán Neeson (Alliance Party) | Thomas Robinson (UUP) | May Steele (UUP) | 5 seats 1996–1998 | May Beattie (DUP) | Jack McKee (DUP) | ||||||
| 1998 | Ken Robinson (UUP) | Roy Beggs Jr (UUP) | Danny O'Connor (SDLP) | Roger Hutchinson (UKUP) | David Hilditch (DUP) | |||||||
| 2003 | George Dawson (DUP) | Sammy Wilson (DUP) | ||||||||||
| 2007 | ||||||||||||
| May 2007 co-option | Alastair Ross (DUP) | |||||||||||
| 2011 | Stewart Dickson (Alliance Party) | Oliver McMullan (Sinn Féin) | ||||||||||
| August 2015 co-option | Gordon Lyons (DUP) | |||||||||||
| 2016 | ||||||||||||
| 2017 | John Stewart (UUP) | 5 seats 2017–present | ||||||||||
| 2022 | Danny Donnelly (Alliance Party) | |||||||||||
| September 2023 co-option | Cheryl Brownlee (DUP) | |||||||||||
Successful candidates are shown in bold.[1]
| Party | Candidate(s) | Votes | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May Steele Thomas Robinson James Brown Eric Ferguson David Fleck | 10,036 | 30.1 | ||
| Jack McKee May Beattie Noel McAllister | 9,557 | 28.7 | ||
| Seán Neeson Stewart Dickson Amelia Kelly Bill McKimmon Janet Crampsey | 3,957 | 11.9 | ||
| William Donaldson William Hamilton William Greer George Ferguson William Adamson | 2,254 | 6.8 | ||
| Danny O'Connor Mary White | 2,213 | 6.6 | ||
| Mark Dingwall Arthur Cowden | 2,041 | 6.1 | ||
| Tommy Kirkham Joe English | 1,141 | 3.4 | ||
| Mary Davey Martin Meehan Una Gillespie | 619 | 1.9 | ||
| Angela Hegarty Jaqueline Weir Carmel Gallagher | 323 | 1.0 | ||
| Sam Crowe Donald Tomb | 271 | 0.8 | ||
| Sharon Morrow Jenny McMillan Paddy Agnew | 224 | 0.7 | ||
| William McClinton Joseph Watson | 218 | 0.6 | ||
| DUP | Neville Steel Allen Boyland | 107 | 0.3 | |
| Maureen Sykes Rachel McKeown | 102 | 0.3 | ||
| Cecil Kane Victor King | 86 | 0.3 | ||
| McMullan | William Cunning James Simmons | 81 | 0.2 | |
| Austin Kelly Brendan Heaney | 69 | 0.2 | ||
| Kevin Smyth Eamon Lynch | 33 | 0.1 | ||
| John Collins Andrea Gribben | 14 | 0.0 | ||
| Chambers | Georgina Strain Hudson Strain | 5 | 0.0 | |