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2001 Coleraine Borough Council Election
Elections to Coleraine Borough Council were held on 7 June 2001 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 22 councillors. Election results Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. Districts summary , - class="unsortable" align="centre" !rowspan=2 align="left", Ward ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs !rowspan=2, TotalCllrs , - class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="white", , - , align="left", Bann , bgcolor="40BFF5", 34.0 , bgcolor="40BFF5", 3 , 20.0 , 1 , 30.5 , 2 , 1.6 , 0 , 13.9 , 0 , 6 , - , align="left", Coleraine Central , bgcolor="40BFF5", 44.7 , bgcolor="40BFF5", 3 , 30.4 , 2 , 17.6 , 1 , 7.3 , 0 , 0.0 , 0 , 6 , - , align="left", Coleraine East , 26.7 , 2 , bgcolor="#D46A4C", 44.2 , bgcolor="#D46A4C", 3 , 7.8 , 0 , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleraine Borough Council
Coleraine Borough Council was a local council mainly in County Londonderry and partly in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. It merged with Ballymoney Borough Council, Limavady Borough Council and Moyle District Council in May 2015 under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland to become Causeway Coast and Glens District Council. Its headquarters were in the town of Coleraine. Small towns in the area include Garvagh, Portrush, Portstewart and Kilrea. Coleraine Borough Council consisted of four electoral areas: Coleraine East, Coleraine Central, The Skerries and Bann. The council last had 22 members from the following political parties: 8 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 6 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), 3 Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 2 Alliance Party 1 Sinn Féin and 2 Independent. Unionist-controlled Coleraine Borough Council operated a rotation for positions of Mayor and Deputy Mayor between the UUP, DUP and the Irish nationalist SDLP. The last electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleraine Central (District Electoral Area)
Coleraine Central was one of the four district electoral areas in Coleraine, Northern Ireland which existed from 1993 to 2014. The district elected six members to Coleraine Borough Council, and formed part of the East Londonderry constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of .... It was created for the 1993 local elections, and contained the wards of Central, Churchland, Knocklynn, Mount Sandel, The Cuts and Waterside. It was abolished for the 2014 local elections and replaced with the Coleraine DEA. Councillors 2011 Election 2005: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP 2011: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent 2005-2011 Change: DUP gain from UUP, Independent leaves UUP 2005 Election 2001: 3 x U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Armitage
Pauline Armitage is a former Northern Irish unionist politician who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Londonderry from 1998 to 2003. Background Based in Coleraine, Armitage joined the Young Unionists in 1969. She served in the Ulster Defence Regiment before being elected to Coleraine Borough Council for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) in 1985. She served as the Mayor of Coleraine from 1995 to 1997. In 1996 she was an unsuccessful candidate in the Northern Ireland Forum election in East Londonderry. In 1998, Armitage was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly, representing East Londonderry. In this session of the Assembly, she occasionally voted against the party line, supporting a Democratic Unionist Party motion for Sinn Féin MLAs to be excluded from the Executive. In November 2001, she was suspended from the UUP, at the same time that Peter Weir was expelled from the party, after the two voted against party leader David Trimble's re-appo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Hillis
Norman Frederick Hillis (born January 1947) was an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician and businessman who was a Causeway Coast and Glens Councillor for the Causeway DEA from 2014 to 2023, and a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Londonderry from 2003 to 2007. Career Hillis was educated at Coleraine Academical Institution and the former Coleraine Technical College and has been active in the business community of Portrush where he has been president of the resort's Chamber of Commerce and Coleraine Lions Club. From 2014 to 2023, he was a UUP councillor on Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council (Formerly Coleraine Borough Council), having first been elected in 1993, and was Mayor of Coleraine from 1999 to 2000, and from 2010–11. In 2003, Hillis was elected as a member for the Northern Ireland Assembly constituency of East Londonderry, but lost his seat in the 2007 election. He is UUP Representative on the Confederation of European Councillors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desmond Stewart
Robert Desmond Stewart (born 1949), known as Dessie Stewart, is a former Northern Irish unionist politician. Political career Living in Portrush, Stewart joined the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), and first stood for Coleraine Borough Council for the party in the Skerries ward, at the 1985 Northern Ireland local elections. Although he was unsuccessful, he was narrowly elected at the following election, in 1989, and then topped the poll in 1993.Coleraine Borough Council Elections 1993-2011 , Northern Ireland Elections At the election in 1996, he stood in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Leonard
Billy Leonard (born 13 January 1955) is an Irish republican retired politician who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Londonderry from 2010 to 2011. A former Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) officeholder, he then joined Sinn Féin, but is now an Independent Republican. Background Born in Lurgan to a Protestant family,SDLP man defects to Sinn Fein , '''', 19 January 2004 Leonard is a former member of both the reserve and the |
The Skerries (District Electoral Area)
The Skerries was one of the district electoral areas in Coleraine, Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 2014, one of three DEAs from 1985 to 1993 and one of four DEAs from 1993 to 2014. The district elected seven members to Coleraine Borough Council until 1993, and five until 2014, and formed part of the East Londonderry constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of .... It was created for the 1985 local elections, replacing Coleraine Area B which had existed since 1973, and contained the wards of Atlantic, Dunluce, Hopefield, Knockantern, Portstewart, Royal Portrush and Strand. For the 1993 local elections, it was reduced by two wards, losing the Dunluce area to the new Coleraine East DEA. It was abolishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Bradley
Maurice Bradley (born 5 April 1954) is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician, serving as a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Londonderry since 2016. Bradley is the DUP's policing spokesperson. He was previously a Coleraine Councillor for the Coleraine East DEA from 1994 to 2014. Career Bradley was first elected to Coleraine Borough Council in a 1994 by-election, representing the Coleraine East District, and was subsequently re-elected in 2001. At the 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly election, he was one of three DUP candidates standing in East Londonderry, though Bradley himself was not elected. He was re-elected as a Councillor in the 2005 local elections. Bradley served twice as mayor of Coleraine, firstly between 2007-2008 and later between 2011 and 2012. Bradley stood for the Northern Ireland Assembly in the 2016 election, after Gregory Campbell stood down and was elected, in the first count, topping the poll. Bradley was criticised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleraine East (District Electoral Area)
Coleraine East was one of the four district electoral areas in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, which existed from 1993 to 2014. This district elected five members to Coleraine Borough Council, and formed part of the East Londonderry constituencies for both the East Londonderry (Assembly constituency), Northern Ireland Assembly and East Londonderry (UK Parliament constituency), UK Parliament. It was established for the 1993 Coleraine Borough Council election, 1993 local elections, and comprised the wards of Ballysally, Cross Glebe, Dundoonan, Dunluce, and University. It was abolished for the 2014 Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council election, 2014 local elections and replaced by the Coleraine (District Electoral Area), Coleraine DEA. Councillors 2011 Election 2005: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP 2011: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance 2005-2011 Change: Alliance gain from UUP 2005 Election 2001: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP 2005: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP 2001-2005 Change: No change 2001 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
