South Antrim (Assembly Constituency)
Coordinates: 54°37′48″N 6°08′02″W / 54.630°N 6.134°W / 54.630; -6.134
| South Antrim Northern Ireland Assembly County constituency |
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| South Antrim shown within Northern Ireland | |
| First Used: | 1973 |
| Assembly Members: | Trevor Clarke David Ford Paul Girvan Danny Kinahan Pam Lewis Mitchel McLaughlin |
| Districts: | Antrim, Lisburn, Newtownabbey |
South Antrim is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973. It usually shares boundaries with the South Antrim UK Parliament constituency, however the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1983 to 1986 as the Assembly boundaries had not caught up with Parliamentary boundary changes and from 1996 to 1997 when members of the Northern Ireland Forum had been elected from the newly drawn Parliamentary constituencies but the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected in 1992 under the 1983–95 constituency boundaries, was still in session.
Members were then elected from the constituency to the 1975 Constitutional Convention, the 1982 Assembly, the 1996 Forum and then to the current Assembly from 1998.
For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see South Antrim (UK Parliament constituency).
Read more about South Antrim (Assembly Constituency): Members
Famous quotes containing the words south and/or antrim:
“A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my shoes, let down my hair, took apart my psyche, cleaned the pieces, and put them together again in much improved condition. I feel like a car that’s just had a tune-up. Only another woman could have acted as the mechanic.”
—Anna Quindlen (20th century)
“Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.”
—Minna Antrim (1861–?)