North Down (Assembly Constituency) - Members

Members

The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2011 election are:

  • Steven Agnew – Green Party
  • Leslie Cree – Ulster Unionist Party
  • Gordon Dunne – Democratic Unionist Party
  • Alex Easton – Democratic Unionist Party
  • Stephen Farry – Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
  • Peter Weir – Democratic Unionist Party

Dr Stephen Farry is the incumbent Minister for Employment and Learning.

The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2007 election were:

  • Leslie Cree – Ulster Unionist Party
  • Alex Easton – Democratic Unionist Party
  • Stephen Farry – Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
  • Alan McFarland – Ulster Unionist Party
  • Peter Weir – Democratic Unionist Party
  • Brian Wilson – Green Party in Northern Ireland

The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2003 election were:

  • Eileen Bell – Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
  • Leslie Cree – Ulster Unionist Party
  • Alex Easton – Democratic Unionist Party
  • Robert McCartney – UK Unionist Party
  • Alan McFarland – Ulster Unionist Party
  • Peter Weir – Democratic Unionist Party

In the 1998 election the six MLAs elected were:

  • Eileen Bell – Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
  • John Gorman – Ulster Unionist Party
  • Robert McCartney – UK Unionist Party
  • Alan McFarland – Ulster Unionist Party
  • Jane Morrice – Northern Ireland Women's Coalition
  • Peter Weir – Ulster Unionist Party

Changes 1998–2003

  • Peter Weir moved from the Ulster Unionist Party to the Democratic Unionist Party on 29 April 2002.

In the 1996 election to the Northern Ireland Peace Forum, 5 Forum members were elected from North Down. They were as follows:

  • St Clair McAlister – Democratic Unionist Party
  • Robert McCartney – UK Unionist Party
  • Alan McFarland – Ulster Unionist Party
  • Oliver Napier – Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
  • Peter Weir – Ulster Unionist Party

In 1982 elections were held for an Assembly for Northern Ireland to hold the Secretary of State to account, in the hope that this would be the first step towards restoring devolution. North Down elected 8 members as follows:

  • William Bleakes – Ulster Unionist Party
  • John Cushnahan – Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
  • Lord Dunleath – Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
  • Simpson Gibson – Democratic Unionist Party
  • James Kilfedder – Ulster Popular Unionist Party
  • Robert McCartney – Ulster Unionist Party
  • Wesley Pentland – Democratic Unionist Party
  • John Taylor – Ulster Unionist Party

In 1975 elections were held to a Constitutional Convention which sought (unsuccessfully) to generate a consensus on the future of the province. The seven members elected from North Down were:

  • John Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough – Unionist Party of Northern Ireland
  • Lord Dunleath – Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
  • George Green – Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
  • James Kilfedder – Ulster Unionist Party
  • Bertie McConnell – Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
  • Charles Poots – Democratic Unionist Party
  • John Taylor – Ulster Unionist Party

In 1973 elections were held to the Assembly set up under the Sunningdale Agreement. The seven members elected from North Down were:

  • John Brooke – Ulster Unionist Party pro Sunningdale
  • William Brownlow – Ulster Unionist Party pro Sunningdale
  • Robert Campbell – Ulster Unionist Party pro Sunningdale
  • Lord Dunleath – Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
  • James Kilfedder – Ulster Unionist Party anti-Sunningdale
  • Bertie McConnell – Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
  • Charles Poots Democratic Unionist Party

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