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This is a list of the 108 members of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLAs) elected in 2011. All members elected at the assembly elections, held on 5 May 2011 are listed.[1] Eighty-three of the MLAs elected in 2011 had been members for all or part of the Assembly's previous term. This includes eleven individuals (marked with an asterisk in the table below) who became MLAs in the previous Assembly by virtue of substitution (see Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly elected in 2007). Twenty of the MLAs elected in 2011 are women.
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Members
Not to be confused: Paul Girvan (South Antrim) and Paul Givan (Lagan Valley) are two distinct people, although both were co-opted to replace retiring Democratic Unionist members of the last Assembly. Roy Beggs, Jr. (born 1962) is the son of the Ulster Unionist Roy Beggs (born 1936), a former Assembly member for North Antrim and former MP for East Antrim in the British House of Commons. Similarly Mark H. Durkan (b. 1967 or 1968) is the nephew of the former SDLP leader Mark Durkan (b. 1960), who left the Assembly after his election in 2010 as MP for Foyle.[2]
New members elected in May 2011
Twenty-five members of the third Assembly who were sitting at its dissolution on 24 March 2011 were succeeded by new members after the election of 5 May 2011. Seventeen sitting members did not present themselves for re-election and another eight were defeated at the polls. One re-elected member had been elected with a different affiliation in 2007.
The numbers indicate the percentage of votes each member received in the first round of counting under the Single Transferable Vote in the 2011 election, and the round which decided his or her election or defeat.[3][4]
This is a sortable table arranged alphabetically by the new member's surname. In some constituencies (Foyle, West Tyrone and Fermanagh & South Tyrone) where it is not possible to couple a single outgoing member by party with a single successor, the incoming members are arranged alphabetically (so the second one may be out of alphabetic order with the rest of the table) and the outgoing members are arranged arbitrarily.
Outgoing member(s) Party 1st
prefRound Constituency New Member(s) Party 1st
prefRound Brian Wilson (retiring) Green Party in N. Ireland — — North Down Steven Agnew Green 7.9% 11 Declan O'Loan SDLP 9.1% 9 North Antrim Jim Allister Trad. U. Voice 10.1% 9 Claire McGill (retiring) Sinn Féin — — West Tyrone Michaela Boyle Sinn Féin 12.9% 4 Fred Cobain Ulster Unionist 8.2% 7 Belfast North Paula Bradley DUP 10.4% 6 Allan Bresland
Kieran Deeny (retiring)Democratic Unionist
Independent10.3%
—0
—West Tyrone Joe Byrne
Ross HusseySDLP
UUP8.5%
10.4%5 Dawn Purvis Ind. (elected as Prog. U.) 5.3% 11 Belfast East Judith Cochrane Alliance 13.4% 7 Reg Empey (retiring)
Lord EmpeyUlster Unionist — — Belfast East Michael Copeland UUP 6.8% 11 Seán Neeson (retiring) Alliance — — East Antrim Stewart Dickson Alliance 10.0% 9 George Savage (retiring) Ulster Unionist — — Upper Bann Joanne Dobson UUP 7.9% 7 Wallace Browne (retiring)
Baron Browne of BelmontDemocratic Unionist — — Belfast East Sammy Douglas DUP 8.3% 11 Alan McFarland Ind. (elected as UUP) 6.7% 9 North Down Gordon Dunne DUP 13.3% 2 Pól Callaghan
[replaced Mark Durkan, MP]
Mary Bradley (retiring)SDLP 6.8%
—4
—Foyle Mark H. Durkan
Colum EastwoodSDLP 12.8%
7.6%4
7Tommy Gallagher
Gerry McHugh (retiring)SDLP
Ind. (elected as SF)9.6%
—6
—Fermanagh &
South TyronePhil Flanagan
Seán LynchSinn Féin 10.6%
10.7%6 Paul Butler (retiring) Sinn Féin — — Lagan Valley Brenda Hale DUP 8.2% 7 Thomas Burns SDLP 10.6% 0 South Antrim Pam Lewis DUP 8.9% 4 Ian Paisley, PC (retiring)
Lord BannsideDemocratic Unionist — — North Antrim David McIlveen DUP 8.1% 8 P. J. Bradley (retiring) SDLP — — South Down Karen McKevitt SDLP 9.0% 9 Ken Robinson (retiring) Ulster Unionist — — East Antrim Oliver McMullan Sinn Féin 8.2% 10 Simpson Gibson (retiring)
[replaced Jim Shannon]Democratic Unionist — — Strangford Mike Nesbitt UUP 11.0% 6 Billy Leonard (retiring)
[replaced Francie Brolly]Sinn Féin (suspended) — — East Londonderry Cathal Ó hOisín Sinn Féin 13.5% 6 Billy Armstrong (retiring) Ulster Unionist — — Mid Ulster Sandra Overend UUP 10.3% 6 Robert Coulter (retiring) Ulster Unionist — — North Antrim Robin Swann UUP 6.2% 9 Member returning with a different affiliation
David McClarty, originally elected from East Londonderry as an Ulster Unionist, although not re-nominated by the UUP in 2011, stood successfully for re-election as an independent. This reduced the UUP's strength from 2007, while keeping independent strength in the Assembly at one (as Kieran Deeny, the retiring independent member, was not succeeded in West Tyrone by another independent). McClarty decided not to re-join the UUP after his re-election.[5][6]
See also
- Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly elected in 2007
- Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2011
- Executive of the 4th Northern Ireland Assembly
References
- ^ "Electoral Office 2011 results page". Eoni.org.uk. 2010-11-09. http://www.eoni.org.uk/index/elections/elections-2011/ni-assembly-election-2011-results.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
- ^ New Durkan aims for leader's seat, The Belfast Telegraph, 10 October 2010 (retrieved 22 May 2011)
- ^ NI Assembly: Latest 2011 Election results, UTV News (retrieved 22 May 2011)
- ^ Full Northern Ireland Results, BBC News, 11 May 2011 (retrieved on 11 May 2011)
- ^ "McClarty: withdraw Sinn Fein ‘scum’ remark or it’s no deal, Tom", by Liam Clarke, The Belfast Telegraph, published and retrieved on Wednesday 11 May 2011.
- ^ "David McClarty says he will remain an independent MLA", BBC, 11 May 2011 (retrieved 12 May 2011)
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