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2001 North Down Borough Council Election
Elections to North Down Borough Council were held on 7 June 2001 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 25 councillors. Election results Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. Districts summary , - class="unsortable" align="centre" !rowspan=2 align="left", Ward ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs !rowspan=2, TotalCllrs , - class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="white", , - , align="left", Abbey , bgcolor="40BFF5", 30.0 , bgcolor="40BFF5", 2 , 17.1 , 1 , 22.4 , 2 , 13.1 , 1 , 0.0 , 1 , 17.4 , 0 , 6 , - , align="left", Ballyholme Bangor ( ; ) is a city and seaside resort in County Down, Northern Ireland, on the southern side of Belfast Lough. It is within the Belfast m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Down Borough Council
North Down Borough Council was a Local Council in County Down in Northern Ireland. It merged with Ards Borough Council in May 2015 under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland to become North Down and Ards District Council. Its main town was Bangor, 12 miles east of Belfast with a population of approximately 68,000. The Council was headquartered in Bangor. Its secondary centre was the former Urban District of Holywood, 8 km northeast of Belfast with a population of approximately 10,000. Most of the remainder of a total population was in suburban villages along the southern shore of Belfast Lough. The area of the former Borough is heavily suburbanised, railway links with Belfast are good and the area has been the domain of Belfast commuters since the mid-19th century. The former Borough is often held to be the wealthiest area in Northern Ireland, although there are pockets of deprivation in a string of overspill public housing estates along the Bangor Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Farry
Stephen Anthony Farry MP (born 22 April 1971) is an Alliance Party of Northern Ireland politician. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for North Down from 2007 to 2019, and was Minister for Employment and Learning in the Northern Ireland Executive until the post was abolished in 2016. In December 2019, he was elected to the United Kingdom House of Commons as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the North Down constituency. Farry has served as the Deputy Leader of the Alliance Party since December 2016. Early life and career Farry is the son of Vincent Farry and Margaret Farry (''née'' Greer). He graduated from Queen's University, Belfast in 1992 with a BSSc in Politics and a PhD in International Relations in 2000. He was elected to the Assembly in the 2007 election for North Down, having first been elected to North Down Borough Council in 1993. In 1996, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Northern Ireland Forum election in Fermanagh and South Ty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Rose (UK Politician)
David Rose is a unionist politician in Northern Ireland. Rose first came to prominence as a member of the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP). He stood unsuccessfully for the party for North Down Borough Council in the Holywood area at the 2001 local elections, then also failed to be elected for the North Down constituency at the 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly election. Despite this, he was elected as the party's deputy leader, serving under David Ervine. In 2010, Rose resigned from the PUP, shortly after its leader, Dawn Purvis, had resigned, and following the murder of Bobby Moffett by the Ulster Volunteer Force, a paramilitary group with links with the party. , '' BBC News'', 28 Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Dunne
Gordon Dunne (4 April 1959 – 20 June 2021) was a Unionist politician from Northern Ireland representing the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). Dunne was a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) from 2011 to 2021, representing North Down. Born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Dunne was first elected to North Down Borough Council in the 1981 local elections representing the Holywood area. He was re-elected in 1985 and 1989. He lost his seat in the 1993 local elections but regained it in 1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ... and sat on the council since then. He resigned from the assembly effective 9 June 2021 due to health reasons, and his son Stephen was subsequently co-opted to the role. On 20 June 2021, eleven days after his resignation, Dun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holywood (District Electoral Area)
Holywood was one of the four district electoral areas in North Down, Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 2014. The district elected five members to North Down Borough Council and formed part of the North Down constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly sco-ulster, Norlin Airlan Assemblie , legislature = 7th Northern Ireland Assembly, Seventh Assembly , coa_pic = File:NI_Assembly.svg , coa_res = 250px , house_type = Unicameralism, Unicameral , hou ... and UK Parliament. It was created for the 1985 local elections, replacing North Down Area D which had existed since 1973, and contained the wards of Craigavad, Cultra, Holywood Demesne, Holywood Priory and Loughview. It was abolished for the 2014 local elections and replaced by the Holywood and Clandeboye DEA. Councillors 2011 Election 2005: 2 x UUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP 2011: 2 x Alliance, 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP 2005-2011 Change: DUP gain from UUP 2005 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Wilson (Northern Ireland Politician)
Brian Wilson MLA (born 15 May, 1943) is a Northern Irish politician who was a member of North Down Borough Council for 34 years (1981–2015). He retired when local government was reformed. During this time he served as an Alliance member, Green Party and Independent. He was the first Green Party Councillor to be elected in Northern Ireland in 2005. Wilson served as the Green Party Northern Ireland’s Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for North Down from 2007 to 2011, and was the party’s first elected representative in the Assembly. He agreed to serve as an MLA for a single term, and stood down to be replaced by his research assistant, Steven Agnew. Early life Wilson was born in 1943 in Bangor, County Down. He attended Trinity Primary School and Bangor Grammar School. A former civil servant in the Department of Education, he studied part-time at the Open University and in 1973 left the civil service to do a full-time master's degree in Politics at the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangor West (District Electoral Area)
Bangor West is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Ards and North Down , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_type1 = Constituent country , subdivision_type2 = , subdivision_type3 = , subdivision_type4 = Status , subdivision_type5 = Admin HQ , subdivision_n ..., Northern Ireland. The district elects five members to Ards and North Down Borough Council and contains the wards of Bryansburn, Kilcooley, Rathgael, Rathmore and Silverstream. ARK, accessed 8 July 2023 Bangor West forms part of the North Down constituencies for the North Down (Assembly constituency), Northern Ireland Assembly and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Easton
Alex Easton MLA (born 19 May 1969) is an Independent Unionist politician from Northern Ireland who has been a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for North Down since 2003. A former member of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Easton left the party in July 2021, following disagreements over the party's leadership. He was educated at Gransha Boys High School and Bangor Technical College. He worked in the accident and emergency department in the Newtownards and then the Ulster Hospital as a clerical officer. He is a member of the Orange Order and the Church of Ireland. He served on the North Down Policing Partnership. As a Democratic Unionist Party politician, he was first elected to North Down Borough Council in 2001 and left Council in December 2013. He was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2003 for the constituency of North Down and returned again in 2007, 2011, 2016 and again in 2017, when he topped the poll for North Down, having increased his vot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Cree
Alderman Robin Leslie Cree, MBE (born 15 July 1941, Bangor, County Down) is a Unionist politician from Northern Ireland. He was an Ulster Unionist Party MLA for North Down from 2003 to 2016. , checkcompany.co.uk. Retrieved 5 July 2016. He was educated at Bangor Grammar School, Bangor Technical College and Belfast College of Commerce. Cree is a former Senior Executive and Director of a major International Energy Company. He has been a member of North Down Borough Council for Ballyholme and Groomsport from 1988 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Chambers (Northern Ireland Politician)
Alan Chambers (born 15 October 1947) is a politician from Northern Ireland. Since the 2016 election he has served as an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) MLA for North Down. Chambers was elected to North Down Borough Council in a by-election on 17 April 1991 as an Independent, representing the Ballyholme and Groomsport electoral area. He was re-elected in several subsequent elections, topping the poll in the elections of 1993, 1997 and 2001, and elected as the second candidate in 2005 and 2011. He served as Mayor of North Down for the 2000–2001 term. Following the abolition of North Down council, Chambers was elected to the successor council of North Down and Ards at the 2014 elections, topping the poll in the Bangor East and Donaghadee area. Chambers contested the 1995 Westminster by-election in North Down, finishing fourth with 8% of the vote. At the 1996 Northern Ireland Forum elections, Chambers headed his own ''Independent Chambers'' list. However, the list was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballyholme And Groomsport (District Electoral Area)
Ballyholme and Groomsport was one of the four district electoral areas in North Down, Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 2014. The district elected six members to North Down Borough Council until 1993 and seven members until 2014, and formed part of the North Down constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly sco-ulster, Norlin Airlan Assemblie , legislature = 7th Northern Ireland Assembly, Seventh Assembly , coa_pic = File:NI_Assembly.svg , coa_res = 250px , house_type = Unicameralism, Unicameral , hou ... and UK Parliament. It was created for the 1985 local elections, replacing North Down Area A which had existed since 1973, and contained the wards of Ballyholme, Ballymaconnell, Ballymagee, Broadway, Churchill and Groomsport. In 1993 it gained an additional ward, Ballycrochan. It was abolished for the 2014 local elections and mainly replaced by the Bangor East and Donaghadee DEA. Councillors 2011 Election 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbey (District Electoral Area)
Abbey was one of the four district electoral areas in North Down, Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 2014. The district elected six members to North Down Borough Council and formed part of the North Down constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly sco-ulster, Norlin Airlan Assemblie , legislature = 7th Northern Ireland Assembly, Seventh Assembly , coa_pic = File:NI_Assembly.svg , coa_res = 250px , house_type = Unicameralism, Unicameral , hou ... and UK Parliament. It was created for the 1985 local elections, replacing North Down Area B and North Down Area C which had existed since 1973, and contained the wards of Bangor Castle, Bloomfield, Conlig, Harbour, Rathgael and Whitehill. It was abolished for the 2014 local elections and mainly replaced by the Bangor Central DEA. Councillors 2011 Election 2005: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance 2011: 4 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Green 2005-2011 Change: DUP and Green ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
