South Antrim (Assembly constituency)

Coordinates: 54°37′48″N 6°08′02″W / 54.630°N 6.134°W / 54.630; -6.134

South Antrim
County Constituency for the Northern Ireland Assembly
South Antrim shown within Northern Ireland
Districts	Antrim, Lisburn, Newtownabbey
Current constituency
Created	1973
Assembly Members	Pam Cameron (DUP) Steve Aiken (UUP) Trevor Clarke (DUP) David Ford (Alliance) Paul Girvan (DUP) Declan Kearney (Sinn Féin)

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

Northern Ireland Assembly (1998–present)

Election
1998	Jim Wilson (UUP)	Duncan Shipley-Dalton (UUP)	Wilson Clyde (DUP)	Norman Boyd (UK Unionist)	Donovan McClelland (SDLP)	David Ford (Alliance Party)
2003	Jim Wilson (UUP)	David Burnside (UUP)	Wilson Clyde (DUP)	Paul Girvan (DUP)	Thomas Burns (SDLP)
2007	Mitchel McLaughlin (Sinn Féin)	David Burnside (UUP)	William McCrea (DUP)	Trevor Clarke (DUP)
June 2009 co-option		Danny Kinahan (UUP)	William McCrea (DUP)
July 2010 co-option			Paul Girvan (DUP)
2011					Pam Cameron (DUP)
June 2015 co-option		Adrian Cochrane-Watson (UUP)
2016	Declan Kearney (Sinn Féin)	Steve Aiken (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.

Other (1973–1996)

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

In 1982 elections were held for an Assembly for Northern Ireland to hold the Secretary of State to account, in the hope that this would be the first step towards restoring devolution. South Antrim elected 10 members (an exceptionally high number which some commentators believe to be impractical) as follows:

In 1975 elections were held to a Constitutional Convention which sought (unsuccessfully) to generate a consensus on the future of the province. The eight members elected from South Antrim were:

In 1973 elections were held to the Assembly set up under the Sunningdale Agreement. The eight members elected from South Antrim were:

Austin Ardill Ulster Unionist Party anti Sunningdale
William Beattie Democratic Unionist Party
Anne Dickson Independent Unionist
Derrick Crothers Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Kennedy Lindsay Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
Vincent McCloskey Social Democratic and Labour Party
Peter McLachlan Ulster Unionist Party pro Sunningdale
Nat Minford Ulster Unionist Party pro Sunningdale

Elections

Northern Ireland Assembly

2016

2016 Assembly election
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	DUP	Paul Girvan	14.3	5,014	5,036
	DUP	Pam Cameron	13.1	4,589	4,606	4,704	5,003	5,067
	Sinn Féin	Declan Kearney	13.2	4,632	4,654	4,737	4,737	4,739	6,207
	Alliance	David Ford	8.9	3,119	3,249	3,639	3,671	3,764	5,056
	UUP	Stephen Aiken^[1]	9.3	3,280	3,342	3,439	3,757	4,403	4,452	4,512
	DUP	Trevor Clarke	10.2	3,585	3,598	3,668	3,978	4,212	4,286	4,338
	UUP	Paul Michael^[1]	7.3	2,565	2,617	2,699	2,848	3,914	4,031	4,127
	SDLP	Roisin Lynch	9.6	3,366	3,400	3,515	3,526	3,547
	UUP	Adrian Cochrane-Watson^[1]	5.5	1,947	1,964	2,001	2,200
	TUV	Richard Cairns	3.8	1,318	1,330	1,505
	Green (NI)	Helen Farley^[2]	1.7	589	689
	UKIP	Robert Hill^[3]	1.6	574	599
	Independent	David McMaster	1.4	483
	NI Conservatives	Mark Young	0.2	72

2011

2011 Assembly election: South Antrim
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4
	DUP	Paul Girvan	15.1	4,844
	Sinn Féin	Mitchell McLaughlin	14.5	4,662
	DUP	Trevor Clarke	14.3	4,607
	Alliance	David Ford	14.5	4,544	4,660
	UUP	Danny Kinahan	10.7	3,445	3,826	5,585
	DUP	Pam Lewis	8.9	2,866	3,329	3,797	4,668.24
	SDLP	Thomas Burns	10.6	3,406	3,436	3,482	3,590.56
	UUP	Adrian Cochrane-Watson	7.1	2,285	2,568
	TUV	Mel Lucas	3.4	1,091
	BNP	Stephen Parkes	1.3	404
Electorate: 65,231 Valid: 32,164 Spoilt: 488 Quota: 4,595 Turnout: 32,652 (50.06%)

2007

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	Sinn Féin	Mitchel McLaughlin	6,313	Elected	1
	DUP	William McCrea	6,023	Elected	1
	Alliance	David Ford	5,007	Elected	5
	UUP	David Burnside	4,507	Elected	7
	DUP	Trevor Clarke	4,302	Elected	8
	DUP	Mel Lucas	2,840	Not elected	8
	SDLP	Thomas Burns	2,721	Elected	8
	UUP	Danny Kinahan	2,391	Not elected	6
	SDLP	Noreen McClelland	1,526	Not elected	6
	UUP	Stephen Nicholl	927	Not elected	4
	UK Unionist	Robert McCartney	893	Not elected	4
	Green (NI)	Pete Whitcroft	507	Not elected	3
	NI Conservatives	Stephen O'Brien	129	Not elected	3
	Workers' Party	Marcella Delaney	89	Not elected	3

2003

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2003
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	UUP	David Burnside	7,066	Elected	1
	DUP	Wilson Clyde	5,131	Elected	5
	DUP	Paul Girvan	4,820	Elected	6
	Sinn Féin	Martin Meehan	4,295	Not elected
	Alliance	David Ford	3,393	Elected	11
	UUP	Jim Wilson	3,135	Elected	9
	SDLP	Thomas Burns	2,732	Elected	11
	SDLP	Donovan McClelland	2,671	Not elected
	DUP	John Smyth	1,501	Not elected
	UUP	Adrian Cochrane-Watson	953	Not elected
	NI Unionist	Norman Boyd	774	Not elected
	NI Women's Coalition	Joan Cosgrove	465	Not elected
	PUP	Kenneth Wilkinson	311	Not elected
	NI Conservatives	Jason Docherty	174	Not elected

1998

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1998
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	UUP	Jim Wilson	6,691	Elected
	DUP	Wilson Clyde	6,034	Elected
	UK Unionist	Norman Boyd	4,360	Elected
	SDLP	Donovan McClelland	4,309	Elected
	UUP	Duncan Shipley-Dalton	4,147	Elected
	Alliance	David Ford	3,778	Elected
	SDLP	Thomas Burns	3,474	Not elected
	Sinn Féin	Martin Meehan	3,226	Not elected
	DUP	Stuart Deignan	2,816	Not elected
	UUP	John Hunter	2,337	Not elected
	PUP	Kenneth Wilkinson	1,546	Not elected
	NI Women's Coalition	Joan Cosgrove	1,108	Not elected
	Labour Party NI	Oliver Frawley	137	Not elected
	Natural Law	George Stidolph	28	Not elected

1996 Forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.^[4]

	Candidate(s)	Votes	Percentage
UUP	Peter King John Hunter Ivan Hunter Peter Walker Mervyn Rea	12,001	30.2
DUP	Wilson Clyde Trevor Kirkland	9,549	24.0
SDLP	Donovan McClelland Bobby Burns Tommy McTeague Bobby Loughran Oran Keenan	6,025	15.1
Alliance	David Ford Jim Rooney Lynn Frazer	3,332	8.4
Sinn Féin	Henry Cushinan Pauline Davey-Kennedy Laurence McKeown	2,149	5.4
UK Unionist	Billy Boyd Stephen Nicholl	2,111	5.3
PUP	Kenneth Wilkinson Mark Thompson	1,697	4.3
Ulster Democratic	William Blair David Burgess	1,000	2.5
NI Women's Coalition	Joan Cosgrove Rosaleen Pelen Sandra Walsh Anne McKenna	435	1.1
Independent Templeton	Arthur Templeton Fraser Agnew	250	0.7
NI Conservatives	Agnes Shirley Roger Lomas David Bustard	246	0.6
Labour coalition	Eleanor Bailey Peter Ruddell Glen Simpson	236	0.6
Green (NI)	Alan Warren John Spottiswoode	197	0.5
Democratic Left	Paul Gupta Paddy McGlinley	119	0.3
Democratic Partnership	Rodney Greene Paul Mullan	105	0.3
Workers' Party	Eamon Gillen Bobby Owens	104	0.3
Ulster Independence	Francis Ellison Samuel Parke	89	0.2
Independent McMullan	John McDowell William Dunbar	33	0.1
Natural Law	Margaret Adams Mark Griffiths	16	0.0
Independent Chambers	William Larmour Greta Bunting	3	0.0

1982

Assembly Election – 20 October 1982
Party		Candidate	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11	Count 12	Count 13	Count 14	Count 15	Count 16	Count 17	Count 18	Count 19	Count 20	Count 21	Count 22	Count 23
	UUP	Jim Molyneaux	19978
	DUP	William Beattie	7489
	UUP	Fraser Agnew	3302	6201
	DUP	Ivan Davis	5394	6170
	UUP	Clifford Forsythe	1612	4243	4283	4306	4319	4325	4327	4376	4408	4559	4563	4563	4642	4654	5437	5500	5501	6249
	DUP	Roy Thompson	2646	3035	3165	3165	3171	3172	3175	3192	3194	3254	3256	3257	3793	3803	3845	3868	3872	3999	6419
	SDLP	James McDonald	2071	2073	2073	2073	2073	2074	2091	2091	2115	2115	2157	2652	2653	2853	2853	2873	4397	4400	4402	4402	4402	7460
	Alliance	Seamus Close	2916	2968	2975	2976	2977	2979	2990	2992	3034	3044	3090	3139	3140	3417	3422	4166	4240	4274	4284	4286	4289	4750	5806
	UUP	Billy Bell	979	2906	3039	3116	3166	3198	3200	3284	3331	3413	3413	3417	3495	3506	4049	4128	4129	4898	5269	5541	5678	5683	5683
	Alliance	Gordon Mawhinney	2660	2774	2777	2778	2779	2779	2785	2793	2890	2916	2951	2970	2976	3084	3102	4426	4462	4586	4613	4617	4626	4751	5100
	UUP	Frank Millar Jr	526	3407	3429	3435	3449	3459	3460	3507	3524	3606	3609	3611	3675	3682	3947	3995	3997	4332	4510	4589	4647	4649	4652
	SDLP	John Clenaghan	2802	2806	2808	2808	2809	2809	2830	2830	2850	2851	2887	3083	3083	3297	3299	3318	4174	4178	4189	4190	4191
	DUP	Trevor Kirkland	1265	1364	2142	2143	2157	2165	2165	2220	2242	2325	2327	2328	3044	3051	3120	3141	3141	3468
	Independent Unionist	George Herron	1797	2237	2284	2287	2291	2301	2302	2345	2382	2543	2545	2545	2622	2632	2850	2891	2891
	SDLP	Patrick Ritchie	2081	2083	2083	2083	2083	2084	2097	2097	2111	2115	2136	2438	2441	2633	2633	2672
	Alliance	Joan Tomlin	2107	2214	2216	2217	2217	2217	2217	2221	2290	2326	2336	2352	2366	2523	2546
	UUP	Ivan Hunter	930	1827	1845	1852	1859	1870	1871	1957	1975	2021	2024	2025	2058	2061
	Workers' Party	Kevin Smyth	891	902	903	903	903	904	933	935	984	993	1626	1705	1707
	DUP	Samuel Neill	1250	1377	1557	1558	1562	1569	1569	1597	1609	1672	1673	1674
	Independent SDLP	William McDonnell	1180	1182	1182	1182	1182	1182	1189	1189	1203	1206	1236
	Workers' Party	Austin Kelly	775	779	780	780	781	781	822	822	890	906
	Independent Democratic Unionist	James Smith	686	828	830	836	837	838	841	856	879
	Newtownabbey Labour	Bob Kidd	560	600	604	605	605	605	651	658
	UUUP	Kennedy Lindsay	160	360	365	366	366	473	473
	Communist Party	Andrew Gibb	247	250	250	250	250	251
	UUUP	Samuel Larmour	139	196	205	205	208
Electorate=131734, valid=66443, spoiled=2076, quota=6041

1975 Constitutional Convention

	Candidate	1st Pref	Result^[5]
DUP	William Beattie	11,834	Elected
UUP	Austin Ardill	10,895	Elected
SDLP	Vincent McCloskey	6,756	Elected
Unionist Party NI	Anne Dickson	5,723	Elected
Alliance	Charles Kinahan	5,294	Elected
Vanguard	Kennedy Lindsay	4,529	Elected
Unionist Party NI	Peter McLachlan	3,919	Not elected
Alliance	John Cousins	3,228	Not elected
Vanguard	George Morrison	2,943	Elected
DUP	James Smith	2,970	Not elected
UUP	Samuel Semple	2,813	Not elected
UUP	John Logan	2,595	Not elected
DUP	Stewart Dunlop	2,461	Elected
SDLP	James McDonald	1,888	Not elected
Republican Clubs	Kevin Smith	710	Not elected
Communist Party	William Somerset	248	Not elected

1973

	Candidate	1st Pref	Result^[5]
DUP	William Beattie	10,126	Elected
Independent Unionist	Anne Dickson	9,033	Elected
SDLP	Vincent McCloskey	7,899	Elected
Alliance	Derrick Crothers	5,975	Elected
UUP	Nat Minford	5,289	Elected
UUP	Austin Ardill	5,234	Elected
DUP	Allen Annesley	4,232	Not elected
UUP	Peter McLachlan	3,983	Elected
UUP	George Swann	3,742	Not elected
Vanguard	Kennedy Lindsay	3,005	Elected
Vanguard	William Snoddy	2,706	Not elected
Vanguard	Robert Bradford	2,587	Not elected
UUP	John Blakeley	2,375	Not elected
UUP	Alexander McGowan	2,327	Not elected
Alliance	William Gawn	1,709	Not elected
Alliance	Joan Tomlin	1,572	Not elected
NI Labour	Sandy Scott	854	Not elected
NI Labour	Bob Kidd	740	Not elected
UUP	William King	694	Not elected
NI Labour	Deirdre Byrne	559	Not elected
NI Labour	Robert Johnston	342	Not elected

References

1 2 3 Ex-nuclear submarine commander wants to be an MLA, The News Letter, 1 December 2015
↑ http://www.greenpartyni.org/helen-farley/
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↑ 1996 Candidates – South Antrim, Northern Ireland Elections
1 2 South Antrim 1973–82, Northern Ireland elections

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