Members of Parliament
The Member of Parliament since the 2001 general election is Sylvia Hermon, initially of the Ulster Unionist Party; she defeated Robert McCartney of the UK Unionist Party who had represented the seat since a by-election in 1995. She was the only UUP MP elected in 2005. She became an independent in March 2010, objecting to the Ulster Conservatives and Unionists electoral alliance.
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | Thomas Waring | Conservative | |
| 1886 | Irish Unionist | ||
| 1898 | John Blakiston-Houston | Irish Unionist | |
| 1900 | Thomas Lorimer Corbett | Irish Unionist | |
| 1910 | William Mitchell-Thomson | Irish Unionist | |
| 1918 | Thomas Watters Brown | Irish Unionist | |
| Feb 1922 | Henry Hughes Wilson | Irish Unionist | |
| Jul 1922 | John Morrow Simms | Irish Unionist | |
| 1922 | constituency abolished | ||
| 1950 | constituency recreated | ||
| 1950 | Walter Smiles | Ulster Unionist | |
| 1953 | Patricia Ford | Ulster Unionist | |
| 1955 | George Currie | Ulster Unionist | |
| 1970 | James Kilfedder | Ulster Unionist | |
| 1977 | Independent Unionist | ||
| 1980 | Ulster Popular Unionist | ||
| 1995 | Robert McCartney | UK Unionist | |
| 2001 | Sylvia Hermon | Ulster Unionist | |
| 2010 | Independent | ||
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