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).
Members
Election MLA (party) MLA (party) MLA (party) MLA (party) MLA (party) MLA (party) MLA (party) MLA (party) MLA (party) MLA (party) 1973 Derrick Crothers(Alliance)Anne Dickson(Ind U/UPNI)Austin Ardill(UUP)Vincent McCloskey(SDLP)William Beattie(DUP) Nat Minford(UUP) Peter McLachlan(UUP)Kennedy Lindsay(Vanguard) 8 seats1973–1982 1975 Charles Kinahan(Alliance) Stewart Dunlop(DUP) George Morrison(Vanguard) 1982 Gordon Mawhinney(Alliance) Fraser Agnew(UUP) Clifford Forsythe(UUP) James McDonald(SDLP) Ivan Davis(DUP) Billy Bell(UUP) James Molyneaux(UUP) Roy Thompson(DUP) Seamus Close(Alliance) 1996 Trevor Kirkland(DUP) John Hunter(UUP) Peter King(UUP)Donovan McClelland(SDLP)Wilson Clyde(DUP) 5 seats1996–1998 1998David Ford(Alliance)Jim Wilson(UUP) Duncan Shipley-Dalton(UUP) Norman Boyd(UKUP) 6 seats1998–2017 2003David Burnside(UUP)Thomas Burns(SDLP) Paul Girvan(DUP) 2007Mitchel McLaughlin(Sinn Féin)William McCrea(DUP)Trevor Clarke(DUP) June 2009co-optionDanny Kinahan(UUP) July 2010co-optionPaul Girvan(DUP) 2011Pam Cameron(DUP) June 2015co-option Adrian Cochrane-Watson(UUP) 2016 Declan Kearney(Sinn Féin)Steve Aiken(UUP) 2017 5 seats2017-present June 2017co-optionTrevor Clarke(DUP) July 2018co-option John Blair(Alliance)2022 Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns. For details of the order in which seats were won at each election, see the detailed results of that election.
Elections
Northern Ireland Assembly 2027
2022
2017
2016
2011
2007
2003
1998
1996 forum Successful candidates are shown in bold.1996 Candidates – South Antrim , Northern Ireland Elections
Party Candidate(s) Votes Percentage Peter KingJohn HunterIvan HunterPeter WalkerMervyn Rea12,00130.2 Wilson ClydeTrevor Kirkland 9,54924.0 Donovan McClellandBobby BurnsTommy McTeagueBobby LoughranOran Keenan6,02515.1 David FordJim RooneyLynn Frazer3,3328.4 Henry CushinanPauline Davey-KennedyLaurence McKeown2,1495.4 Billy BoydStephen Nicholl2,1115.3 Kenneth WilkinsonMark Thompson1,6974.3 William BlairDavid Burgess1,0002.5 Joan CosgroveRosaleen PelenSandra WalshAnne McKenna4351.1 TempletonArthur TempletonFraser Agnew2500.7 Agnes ShirleyRoger LomasDavid Bustard2460.6 Eleanor BaileyPeter RuddellGlen Simpson2360.6 Alan WarrenJohn Spottiswoode1970.5 Paul GuptaPaddy McGlinley1190.3 Rodney GreenePaul Mullan1050.3 Eamon GillenBobby Owens1040.3 Francis EllisonSamuel Parke890.2 McMullanJohn McDowellWilliam Dunbar330.1 Margaret AdamsMark Griffiths160.0 ChambersWilliam LarmourGreta Bunting30.0
1982
1975 Constitutional Convention
1973
References