Sammy Douglas | |
Office: | High Sheriff of Belfast |
Term Start: | January 2024 |
Predecessor: | John Kyle |
Constituency1: | Titanic |
Term Start1: | 18 May 2023 |
Predecessor1: | George Dorrian |
Constituency2: | Lisnasharragh |
Term Start2: | 2 June 2022 |
Term End2: | 18 May 2023 |
Predecessor2: | David Brooks |
Successor2: | Davy Douglas |
Constituency Am3: | Belfast East |
Assembly3: | Northern Ireland |
Term Start3: | 5 May 2011 |
Term End3: | 2 March 2017 |
Predecessor3: | Wallace Browne |
Successor3: | Seat abolished |
Birth Date: | 22 February 1953 |
Birth Place: | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Nationality: | British |
Party: | Democratic Unionist Party |
Sammy Douglas is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician, serving as the High Sheriff of Belfast since 2024, and a Belfast City Councillor for the Titanic DEA since 2023. Douglas was previously a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Belfast East from 2011 to 2017.[1] [2]
Douglas was first elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in the 2011 election, and was re-elected in 2016, representing Belfast East. He did not seek re-election at the 2017 Assembly election.[3]
In June 2022, Douglas was co-opted to Belfast City Council to replace Lisnasharragh representative David Brooks, following the latter’s election to the Assembly in the Assembly election that year.[4] He was returned to the council in the 2023 local elections, this time for the Titanic District.