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2005 Coleraine Borough Council Election
Elections to Coleraine Borough Council were held on 5 May 2005 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 ! % !Cllrs !rowspan=2, TotalCllrs , - class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="white", , - , align="left", Bann , bgcolor="#D46A4C", 34.0 , bgcolor="#D46A4C", 2 , 33.6 , 2 , 19.6 , 1 , 12.8 , 1 , 0.0 , 0 , 0.0 , 0 , 6 , - , align="left", Coleraine Central , 33.8 , 2 , bgcolor="40BFF5", 37.6 , bgcolor="40BFF5", 3 , 10.9 , 1 , 5.7 , 0 , 6.1 , 0 , 5.9 , 0 , 6 , - , align="left", Coleraine East , bgcolor=" ... [...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] |
Adrian McQuillan
Adrian McQuillan, (8 June 1965, Ballymoney) is a former Northern Irish unionist politician who was a Causeway Coast and Glens Councillor for the Bann DEA from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Londonderry from 2007 to 2017 Career McQuillan is a joiner by training, and was a postman for 18 years. McQuillan was first elected onto Coleraine Borough Council at the 2001 election, representing the Bann District. He was the only Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) councillor to be returned in that district, following Robert Bolton's unsuccessful candidacy as an independent. McQuillan was re-elected to the council in 2005. He was later elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly as one of three DUP MLAs for East Londonderry at the 2007 election, but lost his seat in the 2017 Northern Ireland Assembly election. He was elected to Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council Causeway Coast ... [...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] |
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] |
Russell Watton
William James Russell Watton (born 1954), known as Russell Watton, is a Northern Irish Ulster loyalist, politician and community activist, serving as leader of the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) since 2023, and a Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Councillor for the Coleraine DEA since 2014. He was also PUP deputy leader between 2022 and 2023. Background Ulster Volunteer Force Watton joined the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in the 1970s, and was believed to be the commander of the UVF unit in Coleraine. He was involved in the bombing of the Salmon Leap Restaurant, which caused the deaths of several of Watton's UVF comrades. He received three life sentences in 1977, and was imprisoned until his release in 1989. Political career At the 2005 local elections, Watton ran as an independent candidate, for the Central District, in the Coleraine Authority. While out campaigning in the predominantly nationalist Somerset Drive area, Watton and his campaign team were threatened by a grou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James McClure (Unionist Politician)
William James McClure MBE (15 June 1926 – 3 August 2014) was a Northern Irish unionist politician, based in Coleraine, who served as President of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). McClure was also a Coleraine Borough Councillor from 1977 to 2014. Background Political career McClure was first elected in 1975 to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention representing Londonderry. He was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1982 for the same constituency. In 1977, he was elected to Coleraine Borough Council, representing the Area C District. serving as Mayor from 1983–84, and from 1997–99, and as Deputy Mayor from 1982–83, 1985–93, and 2004–05. He served on thColeraine Policing and Community Safety Partnership McClure remained a councillor until the reform of local government in 2014, which saw Coleraine Borough Council merge with the Limavady, Ballymoney Ballymoney ( , meaning 'townland of the moor') is a town and Civil parishes in Ireland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David McClarty
David McClarty (23 February 1951 – 18 April 2014) was a Northern Irish unionist politician who served as an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), later an Independent Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for East Londonderry from 1998, until his death in 2014. Background McClarty was from Coleraine and was educated at Coleraine Academical Institution and Magee College. McClarty was first elected to Coleraine Borough Council in 1989, and held the post of Mayor from 1993 to 1995. Assembly career Until 1 January 2011 he was an Ulster Unionist Party member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (1998–present) for East Londonderry and was the Ulster Unionist Party’s chief whip at the Assembly but since then, vowed to fight future elections as an independent. On 8 May 2007, he was elected as one of the three Deputy Speakers of the Assembly. McClarty served on the Enterprise, Trade and Investment Committee and the Environment Committee in the Assembly from 1998 to 2002. Party allegia ... [...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] |
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 |
