Robert Campbell (Northern Ireland politician) explained

Robert Campbell
Office:Member of
North Down Borough Council
Constituency:North Down Area C
Term Start:30 May 1973
Term End:18 May 1977
Predecessor:Council established
Successor:Maisie McMullan
Office1:Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for North Down
Term Start1:28 June 1973
Term End1:1974
Predecessor1:Assembly founded
Successor1:Assembly abolished
Birth Place:County Down, Northern Ireland
Nationality:British
Party:Unionist Party NI (from 1974)
Otherparty:Ulster Unionist (until 1974)

Robert Victor Campbell was a Northern Irish unionist politician.

Political career

Campbell was an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) alderman in North Down, and on 23 November 1972, he was made a freeman of the Borough of North Down – only the sixth person to receive the title.[1] At the 1973 Northern Ireland local elections, he was elected to the reconstituted North Down Borough Council, topping the poll in North Down C,[2] and he was also elected at the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election in North Down.[3]

Campbell subsequently resigned from the UUP and joined the Unionist Party of Northern Ireland. He stood again in North Down for the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention, but was not elected, and did not contest his council seat in 1977.

Notes and References

  1. North Down Matters, Winter '07, p.8
  2. "The Local Government Elections 1973–1981: North Down", Northern Ireland Elections
  3. "North Down 1973–1982", Northern Ireland Elections