Lagan Valley (Assembly constituency)

Coordinates: 54°30′22″N 6°02′38″W / 54.506°N 6.044°W

Lagan Valley
County Constituency for the Northern Ireland Assembly
Lagan Valley shown within Northern Ireland
Districts	Lisburn, Banbridge
Current constituency
Created	1996
Assembly Members	Jonathan Craig Paul Givan Brenda Hale Trevor Lunn Basil McCrea Edwin Poots

Lagan Valley 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 South Antrim and North Down constituencies. Since 1997, it has shared boundaries with the Lagan Valley UK Parliament constituency.

For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see Lagan Valley (UK Parliament constituency).

Members

Northern Ireland Forum (1996)

In the 1996 election to the Northern Ireland Peace Forum, 5 Forum members were elected from Lagan Valley. They were as follows:

Election	Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)
1996		Cecil Calvert (DUP)		Edwin Poots (DUP)		David Campbell (UUP)		Ivan Davis (UUP)		Jeffrey Donaldson (UUP)

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.

Northern Ireland Assembly (1998–present)

Election	MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)
1998		Seamus Close (Alliance Party)		Billy Bell (UUP)		Ivan Davis (UUP)		Patrick Roche (UK Unionist)		Edwin Poots (DUP)		Patricia Lewsley (SDLP)
2003						Norah Beare (UUP / DUP)		Jeffrey Donaldson (UUP / DUP)
January 2007 co-option												Marietta Farrell (SDLP)
2007		Trevor Lunn (Alliance Party)		Basil McCrea (UUP)		Jonathan Craig (DUP)						Paul Butler (Sinn Féin)
June 2010 co-option								Paul Givan (DUP)
2011												Brenda Hale (DUP)
June 2013 Defection				Basil McCrea (NI21)

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

2016

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2016: Lagan Valley
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	DUP	Paul Givan	13.8	5,364	5,383	5,467	5,480	5,484	5,635
	Alliance	Trevor Lunn	9.5	3,707	3,851	3,900	4,051	4,183	4,994	6,886
	UUP	Robbie Butler[1]	11.9	4,376	4,450	4,549	4,614	4,618	5,004	5,167	5,291
	UUP	Jenny Palmer[1]	10.0	3,871	3,956	4,048	4,214	4,216	4,737	4,971	5,212
	DUP	Edwin Poots	11.9	4,638	4,662	4,713	4,729	4,729	4,986	5,039	5,064
	DUP	Brenda Hale	10.9	4,236	4,283	4,316	4,326	4,330	4,518	4,556	4,577
	DUP	Jonathan Craig	10.5	4,087	4,103	4,159	4,169	4,173	4,309	4,387	4,409
	SDLP	Pat Catney	7.5	2,899	2,935	2,954	2,993	3,704	4,012
	Green (NI)	Dan Barrios-O'Neill	2.9	1,118	1,205	1,245	1,547	1,661
	TUV	Lyle Rea	3.3	1,291	1,303	1,506	1,516	1,518
	Sinn Féin	Jacqui McGeough	2.7	1,045	1,054	1,061	1,082
	Independent	Jonny Orr	2.1	817	840	857
	UKIP	Brian Higginson[2]	2.0	768
	NI Conservatives	Jack Irwin	0.9	341
	NI Labour	Peter Dynes	0.4	171
	Democracy First	Frazer McCammond	0.3	124
Electorate: -   Valid: -   Spoilt: -   Quota: 5551   Turnout: 52.7

2011

2011 Assembly election: Lagan Valley – 6 Seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	DUP	Edwin Poots	20.7%	7,329
	UUP	Basil McCrea	16.3%	5,771
	Alliance	Trevor Lunn	12.4%	4,389	4,471	4,550	4,877	4,947	5,120
	DUP	Paul Givan	12.3%	4,352	4,822	4,858	4,872	4,978	4,992	5,518
	DUP	Jonathan Craig	12.0%	4,263	4,888	4,931	4,950	5,081
	DUP	Brenda Hale	8.2%	2,910	3,816	3,856	3,874	4,056	4,067	4,791
	SDLP	Pat Catney	6.1%	2,165	2,176	2,186	2,287	2,295	3,195	3,406
	UUP	Mark Hill	4.2%	1,482	1,563	1,985	2,014	2,426	2,434
	Sinn Féin	Mary Kate Quinn	3.4%	1,203	1,207	1,209	1,237	1,241
	TUV	Lyle Rea	2.9%	1,031	1,067	1,096	1,110
	Green (NI)	Conor Quinn	1.7%	592	599	606
Electorate: 67,532   Valid: 35,487   Spoilt: 355 (0.99%)   Quota: 5,070   Turnout: 53.07%

2007

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	DUP	Jeffrey Donaldson	9,793	Elected	1
	Sinn Féin	Paul Butler	5,098	Elected	6
	UUP	Basil McCrea	4,031	Elected	7
	Alliance	Trevor Lunn	3,765	Elected	7
	DUP	Jonathan Craig	3,471	Elected	8
	DUP	Edwin Poots	3,457	Elected	9
	DUP	Paul Givan	3,377	Not elected	9
	SDLP	Marietta Farrell	2,839	Not elected	5
	UUP	Billy Bell	2,599	Not elected	6
	UUP	Ronnie Crawford	1,147	Not elected	4
	Green (NI)	Michael Rogan	922	Not elected	4
	UK Unionist	Robert McCartney	853	Not elected	3
	NI Conservatives	Neil Johnston	387	Not elected	2
	Workers' Party	John Magee	83	Not elected	2

2003

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2003
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	UUP	Jeffrey Donaldson	14,104	Elected	1
	DUP	Edwin Poots	5,175	Elected	2
	Alliance	Seamus Close	4,408	Elected	7
	DUP	Andrew Hunter	3,300	Not elected
	Sinn Féin	Paul Butler	3,242	Not elected
	SDLP	Patricia Lewsley	3,133	Elected	9
	UUP	Billy Bell	2,782	Elected	6
	Independent	Ivan Davis	2,223	Not elected
	UUP	Norah Beare	1,508	Elected	10
	UUP	Jim Kirkpatrick	675	Not elected
	NI Conservatives	Joanne Johnston	395	Not elected
	PUP	Andrew Park	212	Not elected
	Workers' Party	Frances McCarthy	97	Not elected

1998

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1998
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	Alliance	Seamus Close	6,788	Elected
	UUP	Billy Bell	5,965	Elected
	UK Unionist	Patrick Roche	5,361	Elected
	DUP	Edwin Poots	5,239	Elected
	SDLP	Patricia Lewsley	4,039	Elected
	UUP	Ivan Davis	3,927	Elected
	Ulster Democratic	Gary McMichael	3,725	Not elected
	UUP	David Campbell	3,158	Not elected
	DUP	Cecil Calvert	3,111	Not elected
	Sinn Féin	Paul Butler	2,000	Not elected
	UUP	Ken Hull	1,289	Not elected
	NI Women's Coalition	Annie Campbell	955	Not elected
	NI Conservatives	William Bleakes	702	Not elected
	Workers' Party	Frances McCarthy	208	Not elected
	Natural Law	John Collins	43	Not elected

1996 Forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.^[3]

Party		Candidate(s)	Votes	Percentage
	UUP	Jeffrey Donaldson David Campbell Ivan Davis William Dillon Billy Bell	16,367	37.7
	DUP	Cecil Calvert Edwin Poots	9,592	22.1
	Alliance	Seamus Close Frazer McCammond Mary Clark-Glass Bill Whitley Betty Campbell	4,508	10.4
	SDLP	Peter O'Hagan Hugh Lewsley	4,001	9.2
	Ulster Democratic	Gary McMichael Philip Dean	3,087	7.1
	UK Unionist	Ronnie Crawford Graeme Jardin	2,172	5.0
	Sinn Féin	Patrick Rice Michael Ferguson Sue Ramsey	1,132	2.6
	PUP	David Kirk Wilfred Cummings	1,072	2.5
	NI Women's Coalition	Jane Wilde Fidelma Carolan Sandra Craig Bronya Bonar Margaret Darcy	520	1.2
	NI Conservatives	William Baird Mary Love	386	0.8
	Green (NI)	Malachy McAnespie George Thompson Penny Kemp	175	0.4
	Ulster Independence	Carolyne Chance Allan Thompson James Kelley	164	0.4
	Labour coalition	Ciaran Mulholland William McAvoy	143	0.3
	Workers' Party	Frances McCarthy John Magee	72	0.2
	Democratic Left	Liam Napier Oliver Frawley	43	0.1
	Natural Law	Duncan Paterson Susanna Thompson	18	0.0
	Independent Chambers	Eric Brown Gary Strain	3	0.0

References

1. DUP whistleblower Jenny Palmer to fight election for UUP, Belfast Telegraph, 15 December 2015
3. 1996 Candidates – Lagan Valley, Northern Ireland Elections