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2011 Larne Borough Council Election
Elections to Larne Borough Council were held on 5 May 2011 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 15 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 ! % !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="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="white", , - , align="left", Coast Road , bgcolor="#D46A4C", 24.2 , bgcolor="#D46A4C", 1 , 17.2 , 1 , 10.3 , 1 , 3.2 , 0 , 18.5 , 1 , 9.9 , 0 , 16.7 , 1 , 5 , - , align="left", Larne Lough , bgcolor="#D46A4C", 44.0 , bgcolor="#D46A4C", 2 , 28.8 , 2 , 20.7 , 1 , 6.6 , 0 , 0.0 , 0 , 0.0 , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larne Borough Council
Larne Borough Council was a Local Council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. It merged with Ballymena Borough Council and Carrickfergus Borough Council in May 2015 under the reorganisation of local government in Northern Ireland to become Mid and East Antrim Borough Council. Its headquarters was in the town of Larne. The Borough of Larne was divided into 3 electoral areas: Larne Town, Larne Lough and Coast Road. At the final election in 2011 15 members were elected from the following political parties: 4 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 3 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), 2 Independent, 3 Alliance Party, 1 Traditional Unionist Voice, 1 Sinn Féin and 1 Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). Aldermen Jack McKee (TUV) and Roy Beggs (UUP) were the longest serving councillors on the council. Together with the neighbouring former district of Carrickfergus and part of the former district of Newtownabbey, it forms the East Antrim constituency for elections to the Westminster Parlia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver McMullan
Oliver McMullan (born 22 March 1952) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician, who was a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for East Antrim from 2011 to 2017. He was also elected to Larne Borough Council in the 2011 local elections. McMullan was active in business life in his native Cushendall, where he owned a local pub. He entered politics in 1993 when he was elected as an Independent to Moyle District Council, topping the poll. He also topped the poll in the same elections in 1997 and 2001, standing as either an Independent or Independent Nationalist. McMullan headed the ''Independent McMullan'' list in the 1996 elections to the Northern Ireland Forum. He received 670 votes (2%) in North Antrim, with the list receiving 927 votes (0.12%) across Northern Ireland, meaning that no candidates were elected. McMullan failed to be elected in the same constituency in the 1998 elections, where he polled 1.0%. He joined Sinn Féin before the 2003 Assembly elections and stood uns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack McKee
Jack McKee (4 September 1943 – 4 October 2015) was a Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) politician in Larne, Northern Ireland.Sydney Elliott and W. D. Flackes, ''Northern Ireland: A Political Directory, 1968-1999'', p.333 Early life McKee was born in the port town of Larne on 4 September 1943 as the third of three children to a working-class family with Ellen and Robert as parents. He attended the local schools Inver Primary and Greenland Secondary leaving as soon as he could. He showed little interest in studies. Upon leaving school he found employment in various engineering jobs in Larne."OBITUARY: An early aide to Paisley, Jack McKee remained councillor for 42 years." ''The Newsl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larne Town (District Electoral Area)
Larne Town was one of the three district electoral areas in Larne, Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 2014. The district elected five members to Larne Borough Council, and formed part of the East Antrim 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 most of Larne Area C which had existed since 1973, and contained the wards of Blackcave, Central, Gardenmore, Harbour and Town Parks. It was abolished for the 2014 local elections and most of the area was transferred to the Coast Road DEA, with some also moving to the Larne Lough DEA. Councillors 2011 Election 2005: 2 x Independent, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP 2011: 1 x DUP, 1 x TUV, 1 x Allia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Beggs
John Robert Beggs (born 20 February 1936), commonly known as Roy Beggs, is an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician. Beggs was educated at Ballyclare High School, followed by Stranmillis College, to study teacher training. After his training Beggs became a teacher at Larne High School and had risen to be deputy principal before leaving the profession upon his election to the Westminster Parliament. He first entered politics in 1973 as a councillor for Larne Borough Council. for the Democratic Unionist Party. He was suspended from the party in 1981 after taking part in a council visit to Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council local authority in the South._In_1982_he_was_elected_to_the_ Almanac_of_British_Politics">Almanac_of_British_Politics,_6th_Edition,_pg_17/ref>_In_1982_he_was_elected_to_the_Northern_Ireland_Assembly,_1982">Northern_Ireland_Assembly_representing_North_Antrim_(Assembly_constituency)#1982_Assembly_Election.html" ;"title="Northern_Ireland_Assembly,_1982.htm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby McKee
Bobby McKee, MBE (1941 – 24 January 2021) was a Unionist politician in Larne, Northern Ireland and former member of the Ulster Volunteer Force. McKee was a Democratic Unionist Party councillor and a member of Larne Borough Council since 1989. He served as a Mayor of Larne in 2004 and 2008. His brother Jack McKee, who died in 2015, was a DUP councillor in Larne and subsequently a member of the Traditional Unionist Voice. He lost both his legs in 1974 as the result of an Irish Republican Army car bomb when he was a member of the UVF. A founder member and chairman of the N.I. Amputees Association he was also chairman of Larne Disabled Fitness Suite. Bobby was Vice chairman of C.A.B. and was a member for 10 years. A member of N.I. Housing Council for 15 years he served as a board member for 6 years. He received the MBE in 2004 in recognition of his work in politics. In 2009, McKee led a welcoming delegation to the Catholic Ancient Order of Hibernians at Larne Borough Council headq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larne Lough (District Electoral Area)
Larne Lough is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland. The district elects five members to Mid and East Antrim District Council and contains the wards of Ballycarry and Glynn, Curran and Inver, Islandmagee, Kilwaughter and Whitehead South. ARK, accessed 8 July 2023 Larne Lough forms part of the East Antrim constituencies for the East Antrim (Assembly constituency), Northern Ireland Assembly and East Antrim (UK Parliament constituency), UK Parliament. It was created for the 1985 Larne Borough Council election, 1985 local elections, replacing Larne Area B and part of Larne Area C which had existed since 1973, where it originally contained five wards (Antiville, Ballycarry, Glynn, Island Magee and Kilwaughter). For the 2014 Mid and East Antrim District Council election, 2014 local elections it gained parts of Larne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
