Politics
The Woodstock and Cregagh roads are part of the East Belfast constituency for Westminster and the same constituency for Stormont. The Westminster seat is held by Naomi Long of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI) whilst the seats in the multi-member Assembly constituency are occupied by Michael Copeland (Ulster Unionist Party), Sammy Douglas (DUP), Judith Cochrane (APNI), Chris Lyttle (APNI), Robin Newton (DUP) and Peter Robinson (DUP).
For local government the area is divided between Belfast City Council and Castlereagh Borough Council. The Belfast section is part of the Pottinger District Electoral Area with the seats held by May Campbell, Adam Newton and Gavin Robinson of the DUP, Máire Hendron of APNI, Niall Ó Donnghaile of Sinn Fein and John Kyle of the Progressive Unionist Party. The Castlereagh section is in the Castlereagh Central area, with the seats held by Vivienne McCoy, Tommy Sandford and Denny Vitty of the DUP, Carole Howard and Michael Long of the APNI and Michael Copeland of the Ulster Unionists. Sandford, a former UVF prisoner who became a community worker in Cregagh, had been a member of the Progressive Unionist Party but left that group in 2009 over its continuing links to the loyalist paramilitary group, joining the DUP the following year.
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