| Ivan Davis | |
| Office: | Mayor of Lisburn |
| Term Start: | 1991 |
| Term End: | 1993 |
| Predecessor: | William McAllister |
| Successor: | Seamus Close |
| Office1: | Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party on Lisburn Borough Council |
| Term Start1: | 2001 |
| Term End1: | 5 May 2011 |
| Office2: | Member of Lisburn Borough Council |
| Constituency2: | Lisburn Town South |
| Term Start2: | 19 May 1993 |
| Term End2: | 5 May 2011 |
| Predecessor2: | District created |
| Successor2: | Roy Young |
| Constituency3: | Lisburn Town |
| Term Start3: | 15 May 1985 |
| Term End3: | 19 May 1993 |
| Predecessor3: | District created |
| Successor3: | District abolished |
| Constituency4: | Lisburn Area D |
| Term Start4: | 30 May 1973 |
| Term End4: | 15 May 1985 |
| Predecessor4: | Council established |
| Successor4: | District abolished |
| Constituency Am5: | Lagan Valley |
| Assembly5: | Northern Ireland |
| Term Start5: | 25 June 1998 |
| Term End5: | 26 November 2003 |
| Predecessor5: | New Creation |
| Successor5: | Norah Beare |
| Term Start6: | 20 October 1982 |
| Term End6: | 1986 |
| Birth Date: | 1937 4, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Lisburn, Northern Ireland |
| Party: | Ulster Unionist Party (from 1987) |
| Otherparty: | Democratic Unionist Party (until 1987) |
| Blank1: | Other organisations |
| Data1: | Orange Order member, Apprentice Boys member, Lisburn Citizens Advice Bureau member, Lisburn Sports Advisory Council member, Partnership of Peace & Reconciliation Committee member, Lisburn Swimming Club vice-president, Lisburn Amateur Boxing Club vice-president |
Ivan Davis (16 April 1937 – 13 March 2020) was a Northern Irish unionist politician. Davis was an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Lagan Valley from 1998 to 2003.
Born in Lisburn, Davis was elected to Lisburn Borough Council in 1973, representing the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). He was also elected to represent South Antrim at the 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly election.
In 1987, Davis resigned from the DUP and instead joined the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). Under this new party label, he served as Mayor of Lisburn from 1991 to 93. He was also elected for Lagan Valley at the Northern Ireland Forum election in 1996 (with Jeffrey Donaldson and David Campbell), and narrowly held this seat at the 1998 Assembly election. During the course of the Assembly, he became UUP chief whip.
Lagan Valley UUP controversially did not select Davis as a candidate for the 2003 Assembly election,[1] so he resigned and stood instead as an independent Unionist.[2] He received 2,223 first-preference votes, but this did not prove sufficient to see him elected despite polling more first preferences than one successful candidate.[3]
Despite this, Davis continued to sit as a UUP member, and leader of the UUP group, on Lisburn City Council until 2011.[4]
He died on 13 March 2020, aged 82.[5] [6]