| Maurice Devenney | |
| Office: | Member of Derry City and Strabane District Council |
| Constituency: | Sperrin |
| Term Start: | 2 May 2019 |
| Term End: | 18 May 2023 |
| Predecessor: | Rhonda Hamilton |
| Successor: | Fergal Leonard |
| Constituency1: | Faughan |
| Term Start1: | 22 May 2014 |
| Term End1: | 2 May 2019 |
| Predecessor1: | New council |
| Successor1: | Ryan McCready |
| Office2: | Member of the Legislative Assembly for Foyle |
| Assembly2: | Northern Ireland |
| Term Start2: | 20 October 2014 |
| Term End2: | 25 March 2015 |
| Predecessor2: | William Hay |
| Successor2: | Gary Middleton |
| Office3: | Mayor of Derry |
| Term Start3: | 2011 |
| Term End3: | 2012 |
| Predecessor3: | Colum Eastwood |
| Successor3: | Kevin Campbell |
| Office4: | Member of Derry City Council |
| Constituency4: | Rural |
| Term Start4: | 5 May 2005 |
| Term End4: | 22 May 2014 |
| Predecessor4: | Andrew Davidson |
| Successor4: | Council abolished |
| Birth Date: | 1 January 1959[1] |
| Birth Place: | Manorcunningham,[2] County Donegal, Republic of Ireland |
| Nationality: | Irish[3] |
| Party: | DUP (1997-2016; 2019 - present) Independent Unionist (2016-2019) |
Alderman Maurice Devenney (born 1 January 1959) is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician who was a Derry and Strabane Councillor for the Sperrin DEA from 2019 to 2023. Devenney also briefly served as a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Foyle from 2014 to 2015.
Devenney was first elected to Derry City Council in 2005 as a member for the Rural DEA, having unsuccessfully contested that District in 1997. Between 2011 and 2012, he served as Mayor of the city.[4] He was elected to the successor council of Derry and Strabane, representing the Faughan DEA, in 2014.
In October 2014, he was co-opted to the Northern Ireland Assembly to replace retiring Speaker and MLA for Foyle, Willie Hay, but resigned from the Assembly five months later to continue as a councillor. [5]
In February 2016, Devenney resigned from the DUP. A few weeks beforehand, he had been suspended from the party. The suspension was linked to an allegation that Devenney had encouraged DUP voters to instead vote for the SDLP candidate Mark Durkan outside a polling station. Devenney later denied these allegations and claimed they were part of an underlying scheme by the Democratic Unionist Party to withdraw him from the organisation for having opposing political views.[6]
He would go on to contest Foyle as an Independent in the Assembly election that same year, but was unsuccessful, polling 1,173 first preference votes (2.95% of votes cast.)
In 2019, Devenney rejoined the DUP, and was subsequently elected onto Derry and Strabane Council in the that year's local elections, this time representing the Sperrin DEA. He lost his seat in the 2023 local elections.