Harry Harvey | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MLA |
Constituency Am: | Strangford |
Assembly: | Northern Ireland |
Term Start: | 7 September 2019 |
Predecessor: | Simon Hamilton |
Office1: | Member of Newry, Mourne and Down District Council |
Constituency1: | Rowallane |
Term Start1: | 22 May 2014 |
Term End1: | 7 September 2019 |
Predecessor1: | Council created |
Successor1: | Kathryn Owen |
Birth Place: | Crossgar, Northern Ireland |
Party: | Democratic Unionist Party |
Website: | Harry Harvey MLA |
Harry Harvey is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician, serving as a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Strangford since 2019. He is the DUP Spokesperson for Cultural Development and Loyal Orders and Groups Engagement.[1] He was a Newry, Mourne and Down Councillor for the Rowallane DEA from 2014 to 2019.
Born in Crossgar, Harvey is the son of politician Cecil Harvey. He worked at Bells Crossgar Motors for twenty years.[2] [3]
At the 2014 Northern Ireland local elections, Harvey was elected to represent the Rowallane area on Newry and Mourne District Council, and was later re-elected in 2019. In September 2019, he was co-opted to represent the Strangford constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly, replacing Simon Hamilton.