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East Derry (Assembly Constituency)
East Londonderry is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996. Since 1998, it has elected members to the current Assembly. For Assembly elections prior to 1996, the constituency was largely part of the Londonderry constituency with a small part around Portrush coming from North Antrim constituency. Since 1997, it has shared boundaries with the East Londonderry UK Parliament constituency. For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see East Londonderry (UK Parliament constituency) East Londonderry is a constituency in Northern Ireland represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. Its current Member of Parliament (MP) has been Gregory Campbell of the DUP since 2001. Constituency profile This is a mostly rur .... Members Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Ireland Assembly
The Northern Ireland Assembly (; ), often referred to by the metonym ''Stormont'', is the devolved unicameral legislature of Northern Ireland. It has power to legislate in a wide range of areas that are not explicitly reserved to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and to appoint the Northern Ireland Executive. It sits at Parliament Buildings at Stormont in Belfast. The Assembly is a unicameral, democratically elected body comprising 90 members known as members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs). Members are elected under the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (STV-PR). In turn, the Assembly selects most of the ministers of the Northern Ireland Executive using the principle of power-sharing under the D'Hondt method to ensure that Northern Ireland's largest voting blocs, British unionists and Irish nationalists, both participate in governing the region. The Assembly's standing orders allow for certain contentious motions to require a cross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Londonderry (Assembly Constituency)
Londonderry was a constituency used for the Northern Ireland Assembly. The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973. Members were then elected from the constituency to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention, 1975 Constitutional Convention and the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1982, 1982 Assembly. After the Assembly dissolved in 1986, the constituency was not used again, its area being represented by parts of East Londonderry (Assembly constituency), East Londonderry, Foyle (Assembly constituency), Foyle and Mid Ulster (Assembly constituency), Mid Ulster. It usually shared boundaries with the Londonderry (UK Parliament constituency), Londonderry 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. For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see ... [...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] |
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] |
John Dallat
John Dallat (24 March 1947 – 5 May 2020) was an Irish politician in the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) who represented East Londonderry in the Northern Ireland Assembly from 1998 to 2016, and then from 2017 until his death in 2020. Education He attended Coleraine College of Further Education, the North West College of Further and Higher Education, the University of Ulster and University College, Galway before becoming a business studies instructor. Career Dallat joined the Social Democratic and Labour Party and was elected to Coleraine Borough Council in 1977. From 2001 to 2002, he was the first Irish nationalist Mayor of Coleraine. In 1996 he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Northern Ireland Forum election in East Londonderry. Dallat was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly for East Londonderry in 1998 and held his seat in 2003. At the 2001 and 2005 UK general elections, he unsuccessfully contested the Westminster seat of East Londonderry. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Northern Ireland Assembly Election
The 1998 Northern Ireland Assembly election took place on Thursday, 25 June 1998. This was the first election to the new devolved Northern Ireland Assembly. Six members from each of Northern Ireland's eighteen House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Westminster Parliamentary constituencies were elected by single transferable vote, giving a total of 108 Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs). Background and campaign The election was the culmination of the years long Northern Ireland peace process, Peace Process that had resulted in the Good Friday Agreement on 10 April 1998. The Agreement had been the result of multi-party talks in Northern Ireland, as well as talks with the British and Irish governments. The Agreement would need to be endorsed by 1998 Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement referendum, referendums in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland that were scheduled for the 22nd of May. Of the parties who had won election in 1996 to the Northern Ireland Forum ... [...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] |
Robert Bolton (politician)
Robert Bolton was a Northern Irish unionist politician. Political career He was a Democratic Unionist Party member of Coleraine Borough Council from 1981 to 1989, and 1993 to 2001. He stood unsuccessfully as an independent candidate at the 2001 election to the council. He was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum The Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue was a body set up in 1996 as part of a process of negotiations that eventually led to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. The forum was elected, with five members being elected for each List o ... in 1996 References Living people Democratic Unionist Party councillors Members of the Northern Ireland Forum Year of birth missing (living people) Members of Coleraine Borough Council {{NorthernIreland-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert John White
Robert John White, known as John White, is an Ulster Unionist politician in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ; ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been #Descriptions, variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares Repub .... Political career White was Mayor of Coleraine from 1977 to 1980, having been Deputy Mayor from 1973. He was elected to Coleraine Borough Council, the council at every election from 1968 to 1993. In 1996 he was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum for East Londonderry (Assembly constituency), East Londonderry. He supported the Belfast Agreement in 1998. In 2006 he succeeded Dennis Rogan, Lord Rogan as UUP President unopposed at the Party AGM. References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Mayors of Coleraine Ulster Unionist Party councillors Members of the Northern Ireland Forum {{Northern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulster Unionist Party
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a Unionism in Ireland, unionist political party in Northern Ireland. The party was founded as the Ulster Unionist Council in 1905, emerging from the Irish Unionist Alliance in Ulster. Under Edward Carson, it led unionist opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement. Following the partition of Ireland, it was the Ruling party, governing party of Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972. It was supported by most unionist voters throughout the conflict known as the Troubles, during which time it was often referred to as the Official Unionist Party (OUP). Under David Trimble, the party helped negotiate the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, which ended the conflict. Trimble served as the first First Minister and deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002. However, it was overtaken as the largest unionist party 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly election, in 2003 by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). As of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Brewster (politician)
David Brewster LL.B., (1964 – 20 January 2021) was a Northern Irish solicitor, unionist politician, community activist and historian from Limavady, County Londonderry. Background Brewster came to prominence in the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) as a close associate of David Trimble. Unenthusiastic about Jim Molyneaux's leadership of the party, Brewster backed Trimble's successful candidacy in the September 1995 leadership election. Brewster was already the Secretary of the East Londonderry Association of the party, and Trimble assisted him in winning election as one of the party's honorary secretaries in 1996.Dean Godson, ''Himself Alone: David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism'', p.184 Brewster claimed that Trimble also offered to help him take over as the Member of Parliament for East Londonderry from William Ross, a leading figure in the UUP but a critic of Trimble. However, Brewster did not want the role, and instead won a seat in the equivalent constituency on the Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Doherty
Arthur Doherty (19 January 1932 – 6 February 2003) was a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) politician, who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Londonderry from 1998 to 2002. Background Born in County Donegal, Doherty studied in Strabane, then at St Columb's College in Derry before becoming a teacher. He later studied Education and Arts and Design at the University of Ulster and became active in the Irish National Teachers Organisation.Biography – Arthur Doherty, Northern Ireland Assembly Political career Doherty was involved in the civil rights movement, and joined the |
