| Norah Beare | |
| Office: | Member of Banbridge District Council |
| Constituency: | Dromore |
| Term Start: | 7 June 2001 |
| Term End: | 5 May 2011 |
| Predecessor: | William McCracken |
| Successor: | Olive Mercer |
| Office1: | Spokesperson for Health and Social Services |
| Term Start1: | 2003 |
| Term End1: | 2007 |
| Constituency Am2: | Lagan Valley |
| Assembly2: | Northern Ireland |
| Term Start2: | 26 November 2003 |
| Term End2: | 7 March 2007 |
| Predecessor2: | Ivan Davis |
| Successor2: | Jonathan Craig |
| Birth Date: | 25 May 1946 |
| Birth Place: | Banbridge, Northern Ireland |
| Party: | Democratic Unionist Party (2004 – present) UUP (until 2004) |
| Website: | Beare DUP |
Norah Beare (born 25 May 1946) is a former Northern Irish unionist politician who served as a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Lagan Valley from 2003 to 2007.[1]
She was elected as an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) candidate in the Assembly election of 2003;[2] however, she defected to the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in 2004 along with Jeffrey Donaldson MP, MLA for Lagan Valley and Arlene Foster, MLA for Fermanagh and South Tyrone.[3] [4]
Norah Beare worked for forty years as a secretary in a number of different companies and then became in 1997 the Personal Assistant to Jeffrey Donaldson. Beare was elected to the Banbridge, County Down council in 2001 as a UUP candidate. On Donaldson's advice she was selected as the third UUP candidate for the November 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly elections.[5]
In December 2003 she resigned, with Donaldson and Arlene Foster, from the UUP and subsequently joined the DUP in January 2004. In 2005 she was re-elected to the council as a DUP politician. In January 2007, Beare was not selected by the Lagan Valley DUP association to fight the next Northern Ireland Assembly elections due in early March 2007.
Beare was elected chairman of Banbridge District Council in 2008.[6]