North Antrim | |
Type: | Northern Ireland Assembly Parliamentary |
Year: | 1973 |
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 |
Blank1 Name: | Boundaries |
North Antrim (Ulster Scots: North Anthrim) is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973. It usually shares boundaries with the North Antrim UK Parliament constituency, however the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1983 to 1986 as the Assembly boundaries had not caught up with Parliamentary boundary changes.
In 1996 members of the Northern Ireland Forum were elected from the newly drawn Parliamentary constituencies but the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected in 1992 under the 1983–95 constituency boundaries, was still in session. However the boundaries of North Antrim were not changed in the 1996–1997 redistribution.
Members were elected from the constituency to the 1975 Constitutional Convention, the 1982 Assembly, the 1996 Forum and then to the current Assembly from 1998.
For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see North Antrim (UK Parliament constituency).
Successful candidates are shown in bold.[1]
Party | Candidate(s) | Votes | Percentage | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ian Paisley Ian Paisley Jr. Gardiner Kane Samuel McConaghie Maurice Mills | 16,448 | 37.0 | ||
Robert Coulter Joe Gaston William Wright James Leslie James Simpson | 11,195 | 25.2 | ||
Sean Farren Dick Kerr Patrick McAvoy Malachy McCamphill Malachy McSparran | 7,185 | 16.1 | ||
James McCarry Christine McAuley | 2,579 | 5.8 | ||
David Alderdice Gareth Williams | 2,518 | 5.6 | ||
Harry Gordon Laura Lyle | 1,185 | 2.7 | ||
Kenneth Blair Winston McConnell | 768 | 1.7 | ||
McMullan | Oliver McMullan John Robb | 670 | 1.5 | |
Mervyn Craig Alan Elder | 665 | 1.5 | ||
Teresa Godfrey Irene Leacock Carol Nevin | 272 | 0.6 | ||
Elizabeth Armstrong Mary Noble | 259 | 0.6 | ||
Robert Margrain Benjamin Adams Mark McKavanagh Niall Mulholland | 187 | 0.4 | ||
Agnes McLeister Ivan McLaughlan | 167 | 0.5 | ||
Maria McAllister Graham Gingles Roger Frew | 150 | 0.4 | ||
Christopher McCaughan Paul Cunningham | 114 | 0.3 | ||
Rosemary McBride Pat Scullion | 60 | 0.1 | ||
Alan Darnbrook Colm McGinn | 40 | 0.1 | ||
Francis Chalmers John Wright | 14 | 0.0 | ||
Chambers | Ryan Hay Jean Arbuthnot | 13 | 0.0 |