Malachi Curran

Malachi Curran

Malachi Curran is a politician in Northern Ireland.

Curran was elected to Down District Council in 1993 for the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).[1] He resigned from the SDLP to stand as a Labour Coalition candidate for the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996. Although the group did not win any constituency seats, it was awarded two top-up seats, which went to Hugh Casey and Curran.

Shortly after the elections to the Forum, the Coalition dissolved. Curran was recognised as leader of the Labour group in the Forum.[2] With seven other leaders of Forum groupings that had supported the Good Friday Agreement, he won a Harriman Democracy Prize in 1998.[3]

Curran then formed the Labour Party of Northern Ireland. Under this label, he failed to take a seat standing in South Down at the Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1998, winning only 1% of the first preference votes.[4]

Curran stood as an independent at the 2003 elections to the Assembly, but saw his vote drop to 0.4%.[4] At the 2007 election, he placed bottom in South Down, taking just 123 votes.[5]

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Political offices
Preceded by
Mark Langhammer
Leader of the Labour Coalition
1996 - 1998
Succeeded by
Position abolished
Preceded by
New position
Leader of the Labour Party of Northern Ireland
1998 - present
Succeeded by
Incumbent

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