Strangford (Assembly constituency)

Coordinates: 54°27′22″N 5°32′35″W / 54.456°N 5.543°W

Strangford
County Constituency for the Northern Ireland Assembly
Strangford shown within Northern Ireland
Districts	Ards, Castlereagh, Down
Current constituency
Created	1996
Assembly Members	Jonathan Bell Simon Hamilton Kieran McCarthy Michelle McIlveen David McNarry Mike Nesbitt

Strangford 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 before 1996, the constituency was largely part of the North Down constituency with smaller sections being added from Belfast East constituency and Belfast South constituency. Since 1997, it has shared boundaries with the Strangford UK Parliament constituency.

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

Members

Northern Ireland Forum (1996)

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

Election	Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)
1996		Iris Robinson (DUP)		Jim Shannon (DUP)		John Taylor (UUP)		Tom Benson (UUP)		Kieran McCarthy (Alliance Party)

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		Iris Robinson (DUP)		Jim Shannon (DUP)		John Taylor (UUP)		Tom Benson (UUP)		Cedric Wilson (UK Unionist)		Kieran McCarthy (Alliance Party)
January 2001 co-option								Tom Hamilton (UUP)
2003								David McNarry (UUP/UKIP)		George Ennis (DUP)
2007						Michelle McIlveen (DUP)				Simon Hamilton (DUP)
January 2010 co-option		Jonathan Bell (DUP)
August 2010 co-option				Simpson Gibson (DUP)
2011				Mike Nesbitt (UUP)
October 2012 defection
2016								Philip Smith (UUP)				Kellie Armstrong (Alliance Party)

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
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10
	UUP	Mike Nesbitt	14.3	4,673
	DUP	Michelle McIlveen	14.3	4,663
	DUP	Jonathan Bell	10.4	3,393	3,411	3,416	3,517	3,540	3,774	5,164
	DUP	Simon Hamilton	12.1	3,964	3,994	3,996	4,099	4,129	4,468	4,983
	Alliance	Kellie Armstrong[1]	10.7	3,499	3,563	3,656	3,720	4,313	4,368	4,393	4,412.84	4,643.46	4,662.46
	UUP	Philip Smith	5.2	1,694	1,805	1,805	1,905	1,963	2,335	2,475	2,904,04	3,676.88	3,957.88
	SDLP	Joe Boyle	8.3	2,724	2,738	3,152	3,176	3,276	3,293	3,311	3,320.30	3,367.92	3,387.92
	Independent	Jimmy Menagh	5.6	1,840	1,898	1,905	1,972	2,048	2,249	2,276	2,312.58
	DUP	Harry Harvey	6.2	2,017	2,031	2,033	2,067	2,072	2,226
	TUV	Stephen Cooper	4.3	1,407	1,418	1,419	1,590	1,606
	Green (NI)	Georgia Grainger[2]	2.8	924	946	993	1,043
	UKIP	Stephen Crosby[3][4]	2.3	759	796	807
	Sinn Féin	Dermot Kennedy	2.0	661	662
	NI Conservatives	Bill McKendry	1.0	314
	Independent	Rab McCartney	0.3	107
Electorate: -   Valid: -   Spoilt: -   Quota: 4,663   Turnout: -

2011

2011 Assembly Election: Strangford
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	DUP	Michelle McIlveen	15.4	4,573
	Alliance	Kieran McCarthy	14.4	4,284
	DUP	Jonathan Bell	14.4	4,265
	DUP	Simon Hamilton	11.6	3,456	3,672.58	3,778.93	3,960.40	5,745.40
	UUP	Mike Nesbitt	11.0	3,273	3,286.93	3,371.93	3,595.28	3,780.92	4,069.92
	UUP	David McNarry	9.3	2,773	2,790.01	2,875.29	3,076.43	3,259.88	3,766.88
	SDLP	Joe Boyle	8.5	2,525	2,527.03	2,579.03	3,245.24	3,281.36	3,308.36
	DUP	Billy Walker	7.3	2,175	2,231.49	2,282.84	2,449.33
	Sinn Féin	Mickey Coogan	3.0	902	902.28	913.28
	TUV	Terry Williams	2.8	841	844.01	963.01
Electorate: 62,178   Valid: 29,668   Spoilt: 518   Quota: 4,239   Turnout: 30,186 (48.5%)

2007

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007
Party		Candidate	1st pref	Result	Count
	DUP	Iris Robinson	5,917	Elected	1
	DUP	Jim Shannon	4,788	Elected	6
	Alliance	Kieran McCarthy	4,085	Elected	10
	DUP	Simon Hamilton	3,889	Elected	14
	UUP	David McNarry	3,709	Elected	8
	DUP	Michelle McIlveen	3,468	Elected	14
	SDLP	Joe Boyle	3,068	Not elected	14
	UUP	Angus Carson	2,128	Not elected	9
	Sinn Féin	Dermot Kennedy	1,089	Not elected	9
	UK Unionist	George Ennis	872	Not elected	7
	Green (NI)	Stephanie Sim	860	Not elected	9
	UUP	Michael Henderson	675	Not elected	5
	Independent	Martin Gregg	650	Not elected	11
	NI Conservatives	Robert Little	508	Not elected	4
	Independent Unionist	Cedric Wilson	305	Not elected	2

2003

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2003
Party		Candidate	1st pref	Result	Count
	DUP	Iris Robinson	8,548	Elected	1
	UUP	John Taylor	5,658	Elected	1
	DUP	Jim Shannon	4,703	Elected	2
	DUP	George Ennis	4,606	Elected	2
	UUP	David McNarry	3,000	Elected	10
	SDLP	Joe Boyle	2,906	Not elected
	Alliance	Kieran McCarthy	2,741	Elected
	UUP	Bob Little	2,123	Not elected
	Sinn Féin	Dermot Kennedy	1,105	Not elected
	NI Unionist	Cedric Wilson	576	Not elected
	PUP	Colin Neill	540	Not elected
	Green (NI)	Philip Orr	425	Not elected
	Independent	Danny McCarthy	319	Not elected

1998

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1998
Party		Candidate	1st pref	Result	Count
	DUP	Iris Robinson	9,479	Elected
	UUP	John Taylor	9,203	Elected
	UK Unionist	Cedric Wilson	3,078	Elected
	Alliance	Kieran McCarthy	2,947	Elected
	Alliance	Peter Osborne	2,269	Not elected
	Independent Unionist	John Beattie	2,247	Not elected
	SDLP	Danny McCarthy	1,982	Not elected
	SDLP	Brian Hanvey	1,883	Not elected
	UUP	Tom Benson	1,623	Elected
	DUP	Jim Shannon	1,415	Elected
	PUP	Ricky Johnston	1,342	Not elected
	UUP	David McNarry	1,073	Not elected
	DUP	Tommy Jeffers	1,007	Not elected
	Independent Unionist	Wilbert McGill	957	Not elected
	UUP	Tom Hamilton	615	Not elected
	Sinn Féin	Paddy McGreevy	614	Not elected
	Ulster Democratic	Blakely McNally	322	Not elected
	NI Conservatives	Thomas Beattie	263	Not elected
	Independent Community Candidate	Nancy Orr	201	Not elected
	Green (NI)	Andrew Frew	200	Not elected
	Labour Party NI	Jonathan Stewart	181	Not elected
	Natural Law	Sarah Mullins	27	Not elected

1996 Forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.^[5]

Party		Candidates	Votes	Percentage
	UUP	John Taylor Tom Benson William Biggerstaff Jack Beattie	12,547	31.3
	DUP	Iris Robinson Jim Shannon Sandy Geddis William Morrison	11,584	28.9
	Alliance	Kieran McCarthy Geraldine Rice Kathleen Coulter Jim McBriar Alan McDowell	4,614	11.6
	UK Unionist	Cedric Wilson Elizabeth Roche	3,112	7.8
	SDLP	John Moffat Joanne Murphy	2,927	7.3
	PUP	Georgina McCrory Alfred McCrory	2,017	5.0
	Ulster Democratic	James McCurrie Blakely McNally	1,080	2.7
	Sinn Féin	Garret O'Fachtna Patrick McGreevy	709	1.8
	NI Women's Coalition	Donna Davis Victoria Moore Gerry Gribben Miriam Titterton	410	1.0
	NI Conservatives	Thomas Beattie Duncan Shipley-Dalton	380	0.9
	Green (NI)	David Langley Robert Huey Sue Miles	213	0.5
	Labour coalition	Andrew Snoddy Stephen Baker	202	0.5
	Workers' Party	Tom Devlin Colum Feenan	73	0.2
	Independent Voice	Edward Philips Trevor Richards	66	0.2
	Ulster Independence	Joyce Cowden Francis Hynds	57	0.1
	Democratic Left	Deidre Dunphy Imelda Hynds	53	0.1
	Independent Chambers	Pearl Brown Heather Magowan	13	0.0
	Natural Law	Christine Bowen Lewis Walch	13	0.0

References

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2. "Green candidate for Strangford". 9 February 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
3. "Crosby calls for white line action in Strangford". 26 January 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
5. 1996 Candidates – Strangford, Northern Ireland Elections